Maybe it's just a human thing.

And the "keep calm and hate god" was clearly created by a theist, not an atheist

The number of assholes calling themselves feminists vastly outnumber the actual feminists. They have lost control of the word.

TBF I think it'd be risky to use legit examples for that panel

I vote OP take the meme down and repost it with Shiela Jeffries or Camille Paglia replacing the feminist..

CCP and USSR stamped out religious practice, but go off.

As an Atheist myself, don't delude yourself into thinking religion is unique in its capacity for horrors. Humans have that capacity, any group we make would also have that capacity.

well you can find them on social media hating on women instead. a lot of early atheist youtubers went on to become gamergaters.

or look at a popular one like Dawkins who is busy being a transphobe nowadays. imagine being an atheist and wasting the remainder of your precious and only life trying to make the precious and only life of the most marginalized people in society even worse.

or sam harris who literally defended torture.

There are a lot of edgy athiests using all their time attacking trans people these days, because an unfortunate number of them are mainly athiests as a way to hate Muslims. And the ones taking the time to attack trans people have almost all joined the alt right, which has been responsible for a lot of attacks on innocent people.

They may not be killing in the name of atheism, but they have been in the same of "reason" and "defence of women".

Many atheists take part in racism and violence. There was plenty during the Cold War, collapse of Yugoslavia, Gulf War, post-9/11 and both Trump terms.

Mao, Kim jong un, Stalin..

The correct word would be "antitheist"

Tbf, you can think god isn't "real" while also hating the concept of "god" for being responsible for so much war and division throughout history (among other reasons.)

I guess you can hate god as a concept. God can be proven to exists in human minds (no esoteric stuff, just psychology and sociology). You can hate this scientific fact and what it means for humankind.

People hate on fictional characters all the time though.

There is a difference between god as a character and God as a concept; the former one is (in my belief) nonexistent, the latter exists as long as his worshipper worship him.

I dunno. I'm not entirely an atheist (my religion is blasphemy. If the gods exist, they like a target) but I can hate something I don't think exists. Some of those deities are godsdamned genocidal maniacs and pedophiles.

Since we are already being unhelpful: Atheist don't all are unsure about if God exists. Some may believe God does not exist, some don't care. Some believers might be unsure or don't care either.

Yeah and “we can do it,” until the men come back home and take the jobs back.

Misandrists exist, but most are harmless. Social media just does a good job of amplifying them like all outrage.

Nah organized religon is actually evil

100%

That being said, dogmatic belief systems, which tend to be common in religion, seem to act as force multipliers in this regard.

Religon was created as a control mechanism for governments that didn't have the capability to enforce laws.

It's a method to make communities self police.

Today it is a dangerous tool left lying around for any con man to pick up and weild

That's why fascist movements always have a religious/nationalist base.

Billionaires

the assholes

The rich.

The 1%

That is cowardly, that's one of the few things its good for. Maybe fixing a wobbly table leg, and when you're out of toilet paper.

Christian faith that only exists in church is a false faith

They're probably going for how the religion is not what it's supposed to be.

Assuming the probability of assholiness based on culture is how you treat cultures unequally. You fight assholiness in the individual level. You can't change a culture like that. You can only educate people and they will change their own culture.

Also, Nye isn't an athiest. He's a devoteé of Cervinas.

Nothing has done more harm than religion.

So you've never met a TERF in real life?

There are some women like that in real life actually

That something is patriarchy.

It's a shitpost, it's meant to be off lol

If you’d like a bit of a read, the character portrayed there is named Rosie the Riveter.

Wikipedia - Rosie the Riveter

It’s definitely a wartime relic, but the history behind it is very interesting!

I forgive you your autism lol, I was raised very similarly especially because I had three sporty sisters (much sportier than I was).

Everyone should cultivate their own strengths and learn their own weaknesses.

That's what happens if you remove sex barriers for work. For instance, most people could not be firefighters regardless of their sex or hormonal makeup. In fact most men do not have what it takes to be a firefighter. But some men do, and some women also do. And most importantly, these men and women have the drive and motivation to become good at it.

I'm not even saying there are the same amount of qualified candidates between men and women, but there are enough in both groups that it makes sense not to limit applications along lines of sex or gender.

There should be no stereotyping, but we are indeed different and do not need to be the same.

thank you very much. that is called common sense, not autism. we can celebrate our differences as well as our similarities.

Not sure where you're from, but in germany and austria, christians are definitely doing good. Churches here have a lot of support networks for everyone, especially elderly and people in need. In germany, we also have the "diakonie", a service of the ... protestant church? (idk how to translate that properly into english, the opposites of catholics here lmao), which is a major part of elderly care. And in many villages or smaller cities, the churches are open during the night for the homeless to take shelter, if they want to.

While I'm really not a big fan of religions in general, I feel like it's unfair to claim that christians don't do anything for society at large. At least from my european perspective.

Judging by the replies, they're forgetting which sub this is

No, it's saying Nye is a good person. He's an atheist and not an asshole.

But you do touch on something because it would be a challenge to find someone known for being atheist while also being a decent human being. IDK, maybe Daniel Dennitt?

For the asshole, I would have gone with Dawkins

Bill Nye kind of is a dick though.

Some people are really warm in acute person-to-person interactions, but lack the chronic empathy to spread long-term kindness. See "southern hospitality" clashing with who those areas vote for.

Others have a well-oriented moral compass but are just really abrasive in person. That's Bill Nye. I've met him and he's not like, super mean but he's got a bit of a holier-than-thou (or rather, smarter-than-you) complex.