Is atheism the brainlet's intellectualism?

Is atheism the brainlet's intellectualism?

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What is it 2010?

Fedoras have moved on from atheism to anarcho-capitalism, nationalism, christ-cuckism and the like.

The buzzwords of rationalism and logic have been replaced by "muh honour", "muh heritage", etc.

autists can be two things at once

Nice try fedora

Atheism and psychology are the basis of pseudo-intellectualism.

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the only atheist's that are brainless due to atheism are so because they still treat it as an -ism.
if you honestly believe anyone who is without religious belief is a brainlet, then I encourage you to stop being so silly.

Libertarianism is so 00s. Most of them went full fash, others went socialist. The only ones who remain are think tank shills or greasy subcon tech autists in the Bay Area

That's not true at all. There are plenty who remain, they just sit quietly in the shadows with their heads tucked into their hands peeking out at what is going on in disbelief and unable to do anything about it because politics is no longer left-vs-right, it's all about identity politics these days.

That guys life is more together than mine. Why use this board to make fun of people? This is lit for fucks sake.

The focus was on my question, not the image.

New Atheism was mostly Anglo ex-protestants who lost their faith in God but still needed Churches and Pastors to lead them along and provide them with a sense of structure. It's also related to the Bush era Zeitgeist, ie. the rise of the religious right and muh clash of civilisations. There is some overlap with neocon-ism, Harris, Hitchens and Dawkins still shill for the clash of civilisations to this day with the same fetishised 'muh enlightened REAL librul values' as bulwark against the irrational hordes of mahometanism narrative

The nu-atheists have moved on to the alt-right.

That doesn't explain the rabid atheism of the millennial left.

It does when you realize that alt-rightfags are leftists, and only call themselves righties because they're contrarian fucks

I get that you want to feel better about being an atheist but that doesn't answer my question.

No they're not. The alt-right formed out of identity politics rather than true political or philosophical beliefs.

It's things like this that really shows how little Veeky Forums actually engages with the tumblr crowd.

Tumblr sjws, although certainly not rabid Christfags like /pol/ are either Christian or atheists who consider any critique of religion fedora tier. Watch how quickly American liberal feminists will jump on a woman if she has the audacity to point out how Christianity and Islam actively encourage the subjugation of women.

Yeah the "millenial left" switched sides since atheism stopped being cool about 2 years ago.
What? I'm not an atheist and I don't see how that post would imply that.

I don't know, try dating a 20 year old girl in college studying psychology who proclaims herself to be a liberal and atheist when you yourself are almost 30 and consider yourself to be agnostic and unable to fully comprehend the vastness and power of the universe and beyond and don't even feel the need to.

Of course, I don't interact with Tumblr, but I am on a college campus nearly every day. Thank god my major isn't filled with these types though.

>Yeah the "millenial left" switched sides since atheism stopped being cool about 2 years ago.
No it didn't. How far are you going to reach up your own ass to not have to associate yourself with fedora-wearing atheists?

They're libertarians though.

Pretty far, it's just a willful obfuscation of what is happening

"They" only exist in your mind. How about you try answering the OP question now?

No they're not.

It's your shit man, own it.

The left is plagued by obnoxious middle class liberals shutting down any genuine class based politics in favor of demanding greater representation of amputee-transgender poc in videogames and you guys have fedoras, polfags and meninists who get triggered by children's films like SW and GB.

Nice projection buddy.
The same people who followed Harris/Dawkins went to the alt-reich/intellectual fascism as soon as it became cool.

No they didn't. Veeky Forums just got a voice and Pepe got nationally recognized. The alt-right wasn't formed nor did people move to become a part of it. A group of per-existing people were just given a new title is all.

Pop atheism and science worship, yes.

They did you're just in denial.
grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/

>the alt-right is real
Hello New York Times!

Yes because true religion takes much study and thought.

Wtf is this 1930s Germany?

The 'alt-right' was at most a couple thousand edgy teens on twitter. Liberal media elites are retards who never met a moral panic they didn't like. Obviously they blew it all out of proportion. Trump's base was the tea party base- petit bourgeoisie, small business owners in wasteland america. If anything the Pepes' antics scared some of the more bourgeoisie republicans into voting for Johnson or staying home. Richard B Spencer's spergout in DC shows how utterly delusional these people can be. Dude pretty much thought he himself had won and was now America's fuhrer.

did you try going to the site?

No, conspiracy theories are the brainlet's intellectualism.

Atheism is nothing more than a lack of belief in a deity or the supernatural. There are no unifying characteristics beyond that. You're going to have to get used to it, religious mythology is dying out at a rapid rate among younger generations worldwide.

This is 100% accurate. The new fedora viewpoint is racial nationalism, radical traditionalism, etc. Atheism is mainstream now, very few young people are anything more than "spiritual." The edgy perspective is fascism and contrarian religious belief.

You're ignoring the alt-reich who don't reveal their power level. Of course Spencer is a sperg and any alt-reicher with a braincell knows to disassociate themselves from him.

>science and study of the mind, behaviorism and cognition
>non belief in deities that have no concrete evidence
>are both "pseudo-intellectual"
Why, exactly?

You just sound salty.

atheism is fine

fedoras are not fine

>rabid atheism
Just seems like a natural decline in interest for religions in an increasingly technological society. I really don't get the blanket hate some of you have for actual Atheism. I'm Atheist, I take it seriously enough but I'm not a fucking meme. And I don't cartoonify anyone to the point of a generlization, that goes for millennials, christians or conservatives.

So why do you? Unless you have a score to settle or a bias to confirm.

You just sound butthurt, desu. Next you are going to complain that kids these days just dont have good music.

My problem with atheism is the same as my problem with the structure of organized religions. They deal in absolutes. There is set of right beliefs, or there is no god.

Neither side ever seems to say "We're just god damn apes, what the fuck do we know about a higher power?"

And I can respect psychology for what it is, but it doesn't answer or replace philosophical matters and it becomes so sterile taking the humanity of the human mind as if it, too, is absolute.

>if you honestly believe anyone who is without religious belief is a brainlet, then I encourage you to stop being so silly

implying you're not a product of religious beliefs

They don't though

Nah, that would be religious theology.

>They deal in absolutes.
Saying "I don't believe in a deity because there is no sufficient evidence any exist" is not an absolute, unless you are counting negatives as absolutes, or unreserved committment in a belief an "absolute". Atheism is not organized and should never be compared to a religion.
>There is set of right beliefs, or there is no god.
But that's not what it is...
>but it doesn't answer or replace philosophical matters
This is silly, why would you be opposed to any science giving you a concrete answer that replaces a philosophical question that had virtually none?
>it becomes so sterile taking the humanity of the human mind as if it, too, is absolute.
Not absolute, just not a mystical phenomenon that is unexplainable.

Every single generation has said that.

Just sounds like you're no different from every other liberal who wants to come across as nuanced on what is really a rather simple question.

Do you believe/act as if a god exists? If no then you are an atheist - simple as that.

I respect you digits

But I disagree. And perhaps you have a different outlook on atheism than the people I am referring to. Not all atheists are the same, nor are agnostics or theists.

That said, I respect the science but I don't think it is the end all be all when it comes to matters of the mind or explaining our existence. It's just a representation of our current scientific understandings and hold as much importance as we give it.

>Do you believe/act as if a god exists?
I believe and act as if a higher power may exist, I can't know the answers for sure.

I know, but that doesn't change my opinion lol. And that's all it is. My opinion shouldn't hold any weight on yours.

it's the naive realism and scientism that triggers me. They got their head so far down the ass of their own ideology they don't even realise they have an ideology. This is exactly what Adorno and Horkheimer where talking about with their critique of instrumental reason.

When is "liberal" going to stop being the go-to generalized buzzword for every boogeyman on here? Do you get tired doing that? Can people just be PEOPLE, first? You choose to start engaging in identity politics by doing that.

This.

>It's just a representation of our current scientific understandings and hold as much importance as we give it.
The earth is round not because my beliefs will it to be round though...


But because it is factually round.

>comparing real science to an ideology
This is an oldhat strawman.

Is it?

>I believe and act as if a higher power may exist, I can't know the answers for sure.
What does this even mean.

I also entertain the possibility a god may exist but I don't live my life under the assumption one does exist.

Similarly, I entertain the possibility my gf could be a lizard in human flesh who eats people but I don't live my life under the assumption she is one.

A lack of belief is not an absolute claim.

Are you the same annoying fuck from the psychology thread who abuses ellipsis?

Yes, Tila.

I am everyone from every thread. How sad are you that you assume everyone is the same? Does ellipsis trigger....you.......?

But I don't view my opinion on the possible existence of a higher power as a belief or disbelief

hahahaha he's trying to make atheists the scapegoat of intellectual midgetry as opposed to the reactionary nationalist-christians that he identifies with.

What's new?

How can you be 100% positive that our perception and understanding of the universe or even physics is entirely correct?

Are you retarded?

Materialiams and atheism is just a sign of decadence of a society. The west is just slowly dying while religion is actually growing. Not the other way around.

Either are equally as toxic as the other.

What is god, anyways? I used to be an atheist, but
I've gotten more into mysticism over the years. Extrapolating from the current trends in technology you realise something very different from reality-as-we-know-it could emerge within the next few years. Could be either something very bad or very good, who knows? To even conceive of something like that you gotta get mythical, you gotta get dialectical.

Humans have a very limited view of the noumenon. I believe we can't perceive the whole of reality and science is but an imperfect model of reality. The map is not the territory. If we reduce everything to data and rationalitey, that which makes us truly human could get rationalised out of existence. And I would rather not have that happen

I am not sure, but I am also not sure if I'm really a brain in a tube. See, since I woild have no physical means to ever possibly ascertain those types of retarded philosophy for dummies though experiments, I have to go with the logic of the world around me and the tools at my disposal.

With those, the earth is round. Now, I want to hope this doesn't become an autistic argument for presuppositionalism. Because WEW, LAD! Nothing is easier to btfo.

>while religion is actually growing
Denial is a hell of a drug.

Not an argument, kiddo.

Actually it's a Hell of a river.

>atheism is just a sign of decadence
KEK nice bait.

both are toxic but one side is definitely more toxic

>doesnt get that I was insulting you

Are.....you.....upset....? Aspie....?

>I woild have no physical means to ever possibly ascertain those types of retarded philosophy for dummies though experiments

So science is limited in construct and ability by our means to fully understand the universe as it is beyond how we may or may not perceive it. While I do rely on science, particularly in my field, I entertain the ideas of other possibilities that we may not be able to fully comprehend.

We've built a world around what we perceive and understand to be as it is. But that doesn't mean it is right. My problem, and what you are taking personally, is the issue I have with people who cannot entertain such possibilities beyond what science can answer.

But he's not wrong.

Atheism is actually shrinking while Catholicism and Islam are growing this is objective data mongrel dont answer me with .
>My friends...
An atheist society can't really compete with a religious group. Atheist societies just lack the unity or the birthrates to compete with relgious communities.

>the issue I have with people who cannot entertain such possibilities beyond what science can answer.
You can entertain all the possibilities you want, it doesn't mean they are automatically real.
>he is not wrong in saying atheism is decadence
Maybe if you are some uber-traditionalist religious aspie from a few centuries ago, it is a stupid statement. And it isn't correct. There have been atheists for hundreds of years.

You wouldn't know much about them, since a lot of them tend to get killed and all that. The sentiment that "not believing in dieties without evidence is a form of decadence" though is extremely ignorant.

>atheism has existed for hundreds of years
>decadence hasn't

This is so wrong.
>more Christians are breeding so therefore there are more christians so therefore atheism is declining

People are abandoning faiths at an alarming rate. Show me your data, then I'll show you mine. Where's yours? You are making the initial claim.

Prove it.

nĂ¼-atheism is a very specific ideology which can be traced back to the anglo liberal tradition

Because decadence isnt a real thing, much like degeneracy, its a /pol/-tier meme.

That was all a bunch of bullshit.

No one is denying the existance of atheist in the past. Generalized atheism is just the result of a complacent society that just really doesn't see a point in morality and social norms as a whole. Europeans are just getting replaced by muzzies for this very same reason.
>People are abandoning faiths at an alarming rate.
But this is false. Most Chinese converts come from China. The west is dying demographically and culturally.
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/03/why-people-with-no-religion-are-projected-to-decline-as-a-share-of-the-worlds-population/

>decadence isn't a real thing
>posting from computer or smartphone

>decadence isnt a real thing
If you want to believe this...>Christian converts

>DeVry

is this real or is the joke writing itself.

I mean only christians are dumber than fedora tippers

Also how do you define religion? Even secular ideologies can't escape metaphysics. Dialectical Materialism makes eschatological claims, for example, while Liberal Atheism is full of spooks regarding epistemology the nature of ethics/values and ultimate reality

It's true tho.

What did you expect out of a pusilanimous non-movement that rabidly defends the status quo?

Shut up, Muhammad. You're NOT welcome.

>Generalized atheism is just the result of a complacent society that just really doesn't see a point in morality and social norms as a whole. Europeans are just getting replaced by muzzies for this very same reason.
Not that guy but the solution isn't to make Christianity a relevant talking point again, it's to bring Islam down to same level that Christianity is at.
Once we get rid of religion as an institution we can start talking about God as a phenomena.
>Most Chinese converts come from China.
This is just fucking hilarious.

>No u Muhammad
Such is the solidity of the christian's argument

what if i told u the status quo is actually Marxism, Cuckoldry and White Genocide?

>it's to bring Islam down to same level that Christianity is at.
This wont happen. Muslim kids are more religious than their parents and they are alredy outnumbering european kids in lots of places. Atheists birthrates are around 0.9 which is leading to a demographic suicide. Europe is literallu dying.
>This is just fucking hilarious.
I just corrected it in the post below moron

>Cuckoldry

man what status quo you have huh

>Generalized atheism is just the result of a complacent society that just really doesn't see a point in morality and social norms as a whole.
Is this bait? It is too retarded to not be bait.

>Muslim """"theology"""""
>Muslim """philosophy""""
I have read deeper things in my Kellogs box