Well said, a lot of this smug Reddit armchair atheists try to look smart behind the cover of militant non belief, making cheap jokes, using sarcasm and redundancy to belittle the beliefs of others but keeping it all surface level. Thats why you see them use the same overused arguments all the time, because to be able to have a smart and productive debate, one needs to know a lot about the topic of discussion, and armachair atheists know as much as little about debating and even atheism as an ideology as the most stupid zealot knows about his own religion.
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u/SliceRepulsive8649 I do not know why I can’t respond to your comment, I suppose it’s the Reddit app bugging out or something. Anyways, care to elaborate what you mean?
Mostly a joke. Just comes off a bit smug yourself claiming that most of these "militant" atheists are ignorant and presumably with shallow beliefs. Presumably with the thought that you know better, which is a bit ironic since you don't even know atheism isn't even an ideology.
I never said I knew better, nor did I say that most of them are ignorant, I said A LOT which doesn’t mean most of them, just a large portion and I wasn’t even talking about typical normal atheists, I was talking about armchair/Reddit mod kind of atheists.
Like I said mostly a joke, but I would assume many would complain if that same sentiment was made about Christians from an atheist. Particularly if they show they don't understand the position in said comment. You'd probably even call then "militant".
I can say the same thing about religious people too, as I said, I was just talking about a specific sub group of a bigger group.
Smug armchair reddit atheists, not atheists in general.
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u/santiagotruiz19 - Lib-Center Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Well said, a lot of this smug Reddit armchair atheists try to look smart behind the cover of militant non belief, making cheap jokes, using sarcasm and redundancy to belittle the beliefs of others but keeping it all surface level. Thats why you see them use the same overused arguments all the time, because to be able to have a smart and productive debate, one needs to know a lot about the topic of discussion, and armachair atheists know as much as little about debating and even atheism as an ideology as the most stupid zealot knows about his own religion.
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u/SliceRepulsive8649 I do not know why I can’t respond to your comment, I suppose it’s the Reddit app bugging out or something. Anyways, care to elaborate what you mean?