What's with all the unironic Christians on this board? Not even that, but people who have a longing to be Christian...

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I didn't examine this collection of images, but each sampled is a mere false flag.

what is not to understand the longing to be religious? who wouldn't want to *believe* an eternal life of happiness is waiting for them?

>if I'm not an atheist, but instead a contrarian christian, then I'm at least saved from being autistic
The inconsistency of your argument can be further proved by this image.

Nah, its just a collection of the contrarian and poser crowd who like hipsters drift from trend to trend whilst retaining the same core qualities despite the various different ideologies and movements they attach themselves to.

"past" what?

I think you misunderstand the function of religion. And don't seem to understand Christianity.

Think of Christianity as a lifestyle philosophy that you have to jump into wholeheartedly to see the benefits of. And beyond that, there are people who have spiritual experiences deeper than any of the shallower social and psychological effects of the belief system.

Are you an /r/atheism fedora who can't move past a literalist creationist understanding of Christianity?

past the tired and dull christposting meme

This is hilarious.
It's astonishing how a board composed by this kind of individuals has been able to define the political stance of almost the entire site. Well, it was more like they being the contrarians little fucks they are because most of them are probably outcasts of society (there's a lot of crossposting between /r9k/ and /pol/ to not having it at least in consideration).

Name one blue-pilled thought in that post

Or maybe they feel lost and want a firm foundation to ground themselves on. That's a normal impulse in well adjusted people who aren't endlessly concerned with avoiding trends and being a "pseud".

You actually seem to belong to a particularly obnoxious class of teenagers on Veeky Forums who are REALLY concerned with the authenticity of others (and likely yourself). They always have the same obnoxious "self awareness"(they're actually not) and try to impress everyone with what they think is penetrating insight.

>there are people who have spiritual experiences deeper than any of the shallower social and psychological effects of the belief system
And there's also people who have the same experiences without having a belief system that includes a god. Does that means that god doesn't exists?

>that's a normal impulse in well adjusted people
What did he meant by this?

No its more a case of me being old enough to have seen the same trends play out on here and irl.

I see the same thing happen in socialist movements.

Im not trying to impress anyone as much as provide another opinion that warns against believing these kind of up swells are unique or long lasting.

accpet Jesus

Cosmological argument is shit.
t. Leibniz and Aquinas
It's only to be expected. Catholicism is a very philosophy and literature heavy religion, meaning Catholics have a natural interest in Veeky Forums and many others come to faith through being exposed to literature and philosophy.
It would be very strange if Veeky Forums didn't have a lot of religious people.

sure, past it in the sense that you're free to believe what you want. Religion is mostly irrelevant in the western world anyways.

>excluding fundamentalists and charlatans who feel the duty to shove their dogmatic bullshit down the throats of other people...or in case the of ISIS on pain of death.

OP, what have you read to come to this conclusion? How can you try to understand it if you very probably, like 90% of atheists, have only read god delusion?

Most people that turned to christianity did so by choice, because at some point, they started looking into it and studying, leaving the blinding pseud-intellectuality that is "neo-atheism".

>Religion is mostly irrelevant in the western world anyways.
top fucking kek

What prayers do I say to make Veeky Forums have moderation

That question isn't really relevant. Look at it from a sociological and psychological perspective.
I think you're ignoring all the political and social developments that would make someone (especially a right winger) seek the comfort of religion.
>threat of Islam
>what they see as social decay
>eroding of traditional institutions and even nation states
>an empty transactional consumerism replacing genuine community

I could go on but it would probably derail the thread. My point is, from their perspective they have a good reason to look to Christianity for answers.

Just a lot of Rosario over the months.

Non-denominational Christianity is the most patrician

Actually no

This board is half Christian, half Atheist, and a few shitposting Muslims.

>What's with all the unironic Christians on this board

Don't be silly, those can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Most simply like the idea of being Christian because they like to be contrarian. They would have been fedora tippers if the times were different. There's nothing more too it.

>out of spite for fedoracore internet atheism

So what you're saying is you're an autist, and actually the real fedora.

see:
You're actually an idiot. You just don't know it.

fuck you....basterd.....

>I could go on but it would probably derail the thread. My point is, from their perspective they have a good reason to look to Christianity for answers.

I agree in part, there is a reason why it is Christianity over say Buddhism or New Age thought however I would ask you to consider the option not taken as well ie why religion and not Fascism or Neo Reactionary thought.

My point is that concerns like the ones you mentioned are more significant than Christianity being true (indeed Christianity for them is true because it provides the answer to those issues and not the other way around).

Hence the weirdness youll see in a lot of the posts on the bottom of the image.

>threat of islam

Yeah, because accepting an equally retarded religion as a counter-weight against a retarded religion is a very good idea.

>implying

This.

>Aren't we past this by now?

You best be 12

>trying very hard to become a genuine christian out of spite for fedoracore internet atheism

yeah i know what you mean

i was so mad at internet feminism saying a video game i like was bad that i became an actual real life neonazi in response, because proportion does not exist

my next project is to protest health food bloggers by literally ingesting razor blades

urine.

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>which is, beyond any shred of doubt, the shittiest ideology of all time
>not Christianity
>not fascism

Aren't we past what? Religion?

Sadly fucking not.

I don't see what's wrong in believing that Jesus said a thing or two that we should follow to make our and the lives of others a bit better.

le trilemma

Hahaha moron.

lol hehe lol haha lol hehe lol - a poem

The holy trinity? Where's your problem with it?

urine

jesus said not to bother burying the corpses of your loved ones because the world was on the cusp of a grand divine intervention that would reward the lowest of beggars and wipe everyone else from existence. the scholarly term for this is "inversionary ethical eschatology" and it's a pretty wacky idea which is why early christians quickly gave up on the teachings of jesus and allowed more sensible people like paul of tarsus to actually define the direction of the "christian" church.

Literature is inherently theist.

Atheism, as a creed, cannot exist by itself; it's contingent upon its dialogue with theism. Atheism is only a variant of the discussion revolving around theism.

I haven't actually noticed an influx of Christian threads on Veeky Forums, but I have seen occasional threads asking for recommendations on Catholic authors. I assume those anons were indoctrinated with Catholicism from birth, not contrarians who are trying to become Catholic to spite some perceived Internet boogeyman.

>Reddit are mostly Atheist, thus...
Reddit's userbase isn't mostly atheist. (atheism is not a proper noun, user)

If Reddit's audience is based mostly in Anglo countries, then it's very likely predominantly Christian.

>>unironic

>What's with all the unironic Christians on this board?
Partly honest search for meaning and tribalism, partly trolling/contrarianism.

>Aren't we past this by now?
What do you mean by "this"? If you're talking about religious belief, that's a normal or even essential part of humanity.
I'd say 99.9% of people have religious beliefs of some kind, including those who call themselves atheists.

Atheism isn't contingent upon any belief system. It's a base state for all self-aware lifeforms before they're indoctrinated with some ideology or another.

>Literature is inherently theist.

No?

Have you ever tried to read atheist 'literature?'
>The Golden Compass
>A fine young adult book
>next two books are atheist propaganda
>all because the author had beef with C.S. Lewis's enduring appeal

There is no atheism without theism.
If there were no religious people, Dawkins wouldn't have a job.

>Have you ever tried to read atheist 'literature?'

No, and I have no intention of doing so. My being irreligious isn't some political gesture. I just don't agree with religious doctrines.

Why would I want to have someone preach the "tenets" of atheism to me as if it were an ideological system? Then I may as well belong to some organized religion.

>There is no atheism without theism.

This makes no sense.

>Dawkins wouldn't have a job.

I don't get it. Do you think Dawkins is some canonical figurehead to atheism? Atheism is not an ideology, it's a simple negative. There is nothing that can be ascribed to it.

>Atheism is not an ideology, it's a simple negative. There is nothing that can be ascribed to it.

ideology at its purest: the post

You can't be serious.

" trying very hard to become a genuine christian"

Surely you realise how fucked up this statement is?

Deluded freak

This is nothing new. It's just part of the reaction fueled by the internet that created other movements with contrarianism on their core like the "alt-right".

*tibbs febbora*

Very, very true, man.

I'm an atheist, but that's as far as it goes. I have a two Dawkins books, but none of them are even remotely related to atheism and secular politics. Unweaving the rainbow is about science and a scientific perspective and the selfish gene is his oldest work which is purely based on evolutionary theory. I would never pick up The God Delusion. What would I have to gain from that? I don't really agree with Dawkin's sitting on Twitter and ranting. He stopped being a scientist awhile ago.

Contrarianism in politics is how things normally work.
If fascism was the mainstream/state ideology anything opposing it would be contrarian, just like "alt right" is now.

I had a Christian upbringing from the ages of 5-12. I stopped believing in religion entirely and yet probably know more prayers than the majority of people who claim to embrace Christianity on this site.

Wow that's very impressive, tell us more :D

>I've memorized more prayers and am Atheist now! Take that "Christians"!

In uncertain times the fragile need something to reassure them that their limited time in existence isn't just a giant waste. They need an illusion to fulfill them, and accepting the impossibility of Christianity as an identity is easier than accepting the identity of being an alienated slave whose only destiny is to fill the coffers of a select minority.

The Cosmological Argument doesn't lead to Christianity. Trust me, I've been there.

This is true, but be prepared to be called a fedora because you've spoken sense.

>Implying there's any way out of Agrippa's Trilemma except theological foundationalism

existence itself is an impossibility

Here's your (you), it's the only one you're getting from me. Don't post anymore.

The sad thing is I'm pretty sure I helped create the fedora meme. Back in the day when everyone was atheist/non-religious agnostic the problem was idiot atheists spamming their shit everywhere. They deserved to be shamed to be honest, but now they're Christians instead of atheists, like they didn't learn their lesson. And yes, I'm not convinced that these meme-again """"Christians"""" aren't the same people as the kids that were sucking Dawkins' dick just a few years ago.

Clearly not.