Euphoric Christian Fatigue Thread

[Chuckwagon]

I stopped posting there because I was getting shit for religisperging in the US Politics thread so I stopped.

Did you seriously just go into my profile and skim through all my posts to find the next one where I talk about Christianity just to reply to me in a different thread?

Don't be absurd, I'm not autistic enough to a-log anyone that hard. I'm well aware of this thread, broadly agree with the OP's thrust & have read and dropped stickers in it well before I ever conversed with you (seriously, you don't even have to take my word for it, you can go check the stickers on earlier posts in here yourself). So of course I'm going to check in on it from time to time when I see there are new posts here.

 

[Powerhouse of the Cell]

I'm not autistic enough to a-log anyone that hard

You were autistic enough to try to continue a conversation from a completely different thread because you thought I was "running away" for not responding to you anymore because I didn't want to derail the thread further.

The fact that you were aware of this thread before does not contradict my speculation.
For all I know, you got impatient when you checked your notifications and didn't see my name there so you checked my profile to see if I made more posts talking about Christianity somewhere else and got excited when I saw I posted on a thread that you were already on so decided to reply here.

At least something close to that.

 

[HowlingChasm]

euphoric fedora tipping niggers are still a problem in the Year of Our Lord 2026

Fedora-ism isn’t about critique of religion, it’s about social misfits who think their bitter contrarianism against normies is enlightenment. As a behavior, the hat has been passed to e-christians despite atheists still being arguably dumb. The phenomenon is the fedora and what the fedora represents is to be a nerd.

 

[Powerhouse of the Cell]

Fedora-ism isn’t about critique of religion, it’s about social misfits who think their bitter contrarianism against normies is enlightenment. As a behavior, the hat has been passed to e-christians despite atheists still being arguably dumb. The phenomenon is the fedora and what the fedora represents is to be a nerd.

Atheists were dumb at first because the first vocal ones were shitlibs who hated anything that was culturally conservative, which Christianity was.

This will become less true as time goes on when non-shitlib non-causey people continue moving onto Atheism and we see "righ-wing" atheists become a thing.

Overall, people need to look at religions and lack there of as phenomenas to get the whole picture.

 

[Irreedemable Ret. 2]

This will become less true as time goes on when non-shitlib non-causey people continue moving onto Atheism and we see "righ-wing" atheists become a thing

This is a fantasy due to the way political atheism worked and works, unless you have a wide definition of "atheism" that involves new age garbage.

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

Here's another thing. What if God exists, but He is very evil and incompetent and people just don't know or refuse to know? Or even worse, what if divinity is replaced by something VERY evil without a normal Christian recognizing it?

Does that still count as Atheism or is it something else?

And what if everyone's faiths and hopes were all misplaced in something that wants to see everyone with even the slightest modicum of ability to think for oneself dead?

 

[Powerhouse of the Cell]

This is a fantasy due to the way political atheism worked and works, unless you have a wide definition of "atheism" that involves new age garbage.

Atheism is simply not being a Theist.

There's no inherent "political atheism" to it because atheism is not really a thing being Christian is a thing.
Like how being a person who eats vegetables and meat is not a thing like being a vegan is a thing.

Atheism doesn't belong in a specific place in the political map.
It's not inherently left wing. It was only massively associated with it because of the fact that historically speaking, Christianity was associated with right wing culture but being "right wing" is not a thing like being "left wing" is.

And it's happening right now, there's plenty of people like who are Atheist yet do not fit at all with what you would call a shitlib or even with "new age" spirituality.

 

[Irreedemable Ret. 2]

Atheism is simply not being a Theist.

There's no inherent "political atheism" to it because atheism is not really a thing being Christian is a thing.
Like how being a person who eats vegetables and meat is not a thing like being a vegan is a thing.

Atheism doesn't belong in a specific place in the political map.
It's not inherently left wing. It was only massively associated with it because of the fact that historically speaking, Christianity was associated with right wing culture but being "right wing" is not a thing like being "left wing" is.

And it's happening right now, there's plenty of people like who are Atheist yet do not fit at all with what you would call a shitlib or even with "new age" spirituality.

I did not mean that Atheism was inherently political, but how most atheists, when faced with political matters, have a tendency towards progressivism that is very consistent even compared to other demographics that tend to it, and it shows no signs of changing (unless you think there is a hidden variable of closered atheists) especially with the fear porn of christians creating a heckin fascist ethnostate that enslaves womyn.
Also, just because it's not inherently political, doesn't mean that there isn't militancy and activism.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

I did not mean that Atheism was inherently political, but how most atheists, when faced with political matters, have a tendency towards progressivism that is very consistent even compared to other demographics that tend to it, and it shows no signs of changing (unless you think there is a hidden variable of closered atheists) especially with the fear porn of christians creating a heckin fascist ethnostate that enslaves womyn.
Also, just because it's not inherently political, doesn't mean that there isn't militancy and activism.

A long while back, the slightly autistic terms "fundie atheist" or "fundamentalist atheist" was used occasionally to describe atheists who behave just like religious fundamentalists despite professing no religion.

 

[Gandhi's Left Hook]

In fact, I seem to recall that before the latter half of the 20th century, most Catholics voted Democrat, and the more extreme bible thumpers didn't even really consider them Christian.

A bunch of my neighbors are hardcore protestants and they 100% think Catholics aren't Christians. It's the only based opinion they have.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

A bunch of my neighbors are hardcore protestants and they 100% think Catholics aren't Christians. It's the only based opinion they have.

Um, what other opinions do they have that you don't consider "based?"

 

[Dan of Steel]

Here's another thing. What if God exists, but He is very evil and incompetent and people just don't know or refuse to know? Or even worse, what if divinity is replaced by something VERY evil without a normal Christian recognizing it?

Congrats, you just discovered Gnosticism. I found about it too, when I was like 12.

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

Congrats, you just discovered Gnosticism. I found about it too, when I was like 12.

I thought that (the stuff I just mentioned) would be straight-up Maltheism because Gnostics still appreciate Jesus and divinity.

 

[Powerhouse of the Cell]

but how most atheists, when faced with political matters, have a tendency towards progressivism

If you ask me, Japan and China are not exactly examples of "progressivism" despite not being religious at all.
You are thinking of the TJ Kirk type of anti-theists back in the very early 2010s who have pretty much died out at this point.

There are many other non-religious people who are not progressive at all and you underestimate the amount of them that exist at this point.

shows no signs of changing

The signs are there right now.
Especially with us Zoomers who have demographically higher rates of atheism yet rising rates of outright holocaust revisionism.

There are lots of right-wing people on Twitter who are clearly not theist and clearly not progressive either.
Meanwhile there are lots of examples of theists having LGBT flags at their church.

christians creating a heckin fascist ethnostate

And conversely, you have other Atheists who dislike Christianity for being the opposite of that.

 

[Cnidarian]

I blame Paradox Interactive more than anything else.

Back when I was active on /r/Catholicism if I saw an obnoxious tradcath and checked their history like 90% of the time they'd also be posting about those games.

They must tickle the autistic brain into LARPing.

I'll drink to that. The Venn diagram between those fandoms is a circle anyway, either way it's all sensationalized caricature of religion being repeated as though it's the real thing. It's a fandom with delusions of grandeur no better than Bronies. They hide themselves behind a hyperreal image of the devout soldier-politician in the same way that euphoric atheists hid themselves behind a hyperreal image of the godless mad scientist. Reddit atheism was about grabbing the prestige of being a scientist, without being a scientist or calling yourself a scientist, by hiding behind some cherrypicked names and the stigma toward it. They were hoping that you'd hallucinate the word "scientist" whenever they said "atheist". It's all about embodying a derogatory image on purpose to steal izzat from the original people that it smeared.

But as someone that likes “Biblically accurate angels” I think a lot of people that it resonates with resonate with it because it is reintroducing a numinous quality that’s integral to historical Christianity but lost in the modern church. That baby angels and God as an old grandpa neutered the otherworldly quality of it.

Which brings me back to this, I think they rankle euphoric christians so much because they're an equally "metal" perception of Christianity that's irreconcilable with the perception that 'God is just an excuse for the powerful to kill people they dislike'. As you've said, they show this idea of Heaven that is alien and uncontrollable, which is appealing inside of the 'humble' modern perception of the universe and the universal disenchantment with the human race and its institutions. Makes God sound like he's different from a narcissistic projection of the medieval elite, but Frollo's imaginary friend is the god that euphoric christianity wants (I know that movie isn't anti-christian). This is why euphoric christians wank it to caricatures of Christianity that aren't even Christian like Game of Thrones or Warhammer 40,000, because it's shaped like that dismal therefore 'real and manly' concept of Christianity.

The big irony is the tendency of fictional edgelord churches to face off against the naive concept of Hell and its 'inhabitants' which has no relationship to the Bible, and again, works more like the corporeal devils of Indian, Egyptian, or Mesoamerican paganism. Postmodern and Satanic imagery is inseparable from euphoric christianity because it is part of that mythological image they wear.

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

Reddit atheism was about grabbing the prestige of being a scientist, without being a scientist or calling yourself a scientist, by hiding behind some cherrypicked names and the stigma toward it. They were hoping that you'd hallucinate the word "scientist" whenever they said "atheist".

Also the term "freethinker" which Reddit loved for a long time and is kind of hilarious in retrospect considering that whole website is basically an echo chamber generator.

I don't really know where this behavior comes from or why it seems to have become so prevalent, but I will say that if you have a natural curiosity about the world and are willing to explore and keep an open mind then you're 100x better off than the neckbeards in the trenches of social media fighting the newest wars of religion.