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Most atheism is not the “hard-atheism” of “God doesn’t exist and I will not believe in God even if it is proven that God does exist.” Most atheism is the “soft-atheism” of “There is no actual evidence for God existing, and I will not believe in God without evidence. If evidence comes forwards, I will believe in God, but until then, I will not.” In fact, most atheism could be better described not as “disbelief in God” but rather as “skepticism in God”.
But even then, I don’t see how “hard-atheism” is any more of a reactionary view than any other religion (“hard-atheism” could be considered a religion due to its beliefs not being founded on factual evidence). If you would care to explain why that is so, I would gladly listen.
“soft-atheism” is just Agnostic, which is fine and probably what I am.
“Hard-atheism” has bred a pretty gross culture of debate bros that end up going pretty hard against religious groups to the point where it crosses the line into western cultural chauvinism.
I’d say it’s reactionary because the movement mostly cropped up as a way to funnel anger toward Islamic people, instead of the philosophical stance which they claim.
It takes all the worst aspects of religions, blind faith in a concept and hatred towards certain groups, and removes any of the cultural depth and community so it also serves to alienate people that delve deeply into it, helping to create the aforementioned toxicity.
I never understood the association atheism had with marxism.
Marxism is the materialist interpretation of history, and there is no actual material evidence of God. There is no reason to believe in God if you have no evidence that God exists and is actually the way religion posits it.
Ask any leftist today if they believe in some higher power they are bound to say yes
Do you have any statistics to back that up or are you just going to ignore the entire history of state atheism in past and present socialist countries?
The association atheism had with Marxism was because Marx was an atheist and associated atheism with himself.
This association was continued by Lenin who associated atheism with Marxism-Leninism by also being an atheist and associating atheism with himself.
Maoism has an association with atheism because… Drum roll, you guessed it, Mao was an atheist and associated atheism with himself.
This concludes my TED Talk on: Why Marxism Atheism?
If you want the longer version as to why the material conditions of Industrial Europe, the Tsarist Russian Empire, and pre-revolutionary China were such that atheism and Marxism became inextricably linked, you’ll have to read the figures themselves for the answer!
