Why is "coming out as Atheist" such a hard thing in America?
I thought it was a free country.
American Atheism has become as much of a religious cult as any other religion.
>>58365057
Idk it must be something to do with the fact that they don't celebrate Easter
>>58365057
because they pledge allegiance to god every day
>>58365272
>Idk it must be something to do with the fact that they don't celebrate Easter
is this true?
>>58365057
>Why is "coming out as Atheist" such a hard thing in America?
Because America is like a totalitarian hivemind m8...
>inb4 Americans rushing to this thread to meme away about freedoms and greatness
Just don't bother.
>>58365057
>American Atheism has become as much of a religious cult as any other religion.
Americans have this contradictory "I'm special and unique but I also want to belong to a group" mentality. Everyone wants to be "themselves" or unique, independent people. It's highly individualistic.
Yet, they cannot function if they do not belong to a group full of people who are exactly the same. They yearn to be individuals but cannot exist without belonging to the tribe, so to say. They want to stand out, but still belong somewhere.
That's why clique culture is so absolutely massive in the US. That's why you get clearly defined groups like the geeks/nerds, stoners, goths and jocks, where everyone has a set way of acting that makes them feel like they belong somewhere.
American Atheists are no different. There's a very clear cut way as to how to behave when you're an atheist in the USA. The typical "euphoric, fedora tipping" behaviour, the neckbeard, the unfashionable clothes. They'll stand out so you can immediately identify them for how they are.
While in most of Europe, where we still have this clique culture, but not with atheism. There is no set way as to how an atheist dresses or acts here, or a religious person. No one defines themselves as being an "atheist" and barely anyone acts like one, unless they've been heavily indoctrinated by american social media.
>>58365695
good post and agreed on all points
>>58365695
That's what I've been thinking about Americans since forever but I could never find the right words for it.
>>58365747
>>58365810
>>58366016
>They never saw through the American condition until now
Wew.
>>58366150
kek sometimes when something's always been around you just don't question it i guess
>>58365695
Upvoted
>>58365695
good analysis, americans are indeed pseudo-individualists, and that's why identity politics is so strong there
i don't think that the clique/identity culture is the same in Europe. In Europe, people are not much assigned to a category like in the US, you have much more subversive individuals
Because murrican parents are faggots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVmRui1oFF0
because religion is suppose to be private in america
and even non-religiousness
and it was the brits namely dawkins that started the whole religious people are dumb thing
and the "oppressed" atheists in america started to become vocal
americans are followers not leaders
>>58365695
Spot on.
>>58365695
it's just doublethink about individuality
no big deal
>>58366375
>because religion is suppose to be private in america
LOL
>>58366675
it is, freedom of religion means freedom from public prying
>>58365057
>That pic
That's not what atheist means
Antitheism: (sometimes anti-theism) is active opposition to theism. The term has had a range of applications. In secular contexts, it typically refers to direct opposition to organized religion or to the belief in any deity, while in a theistic context it sometimes refers to opposition to a specific god or gods.
Misotheism: is the "hatred of God" or "hatred of the gods" (from the Greek adjective μισόθεος "hating the gods", a compound of μῖσος "hatred" and θεός "god").
New Atheism: is the journalistic term used to describe the positions promoted by atheists of the twenty-first century. This modern day atheism and secularism is advanced by critics of religion and religious belief, a group of modern atheist thinkers and writers who advocate the view that superstition, religion and irrationalism should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized, and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises in government, education and politics.
Atheism: is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists.
Antireligion: is opposition to religion. The term may be used to describe opposition to organized religion, or to describe a broader opposition to any form of belief in the supernatural or the divine. Antireligion is distinct from atheism (the absence of a belief in deities) and antitheism (an opposition to belief in deities), although antireligionists may also be atheists or antitheists.
>>58365695
That's how everyone is though isn't it. When you're alone and bored you want to hang around with your friends or maybe start a hobby with people like you. But when you start feeling like everyone else, a mass produced product, you wan't to become unique. But then you want to be like everyone else to fit in. Why can't you just do X like everyone else, but then you convince yourself you're unique and should appreciate it but then you get lonely again. ..Or is it just me?
>>58366922
you are an american, come home white man
>>58366757
Agnosticism: is the view that the truth values of certain claims – especially metaphysical and religious claims such as whether God, the divine or the supernatural exist – are unknown and perhaps unknowable.
Apatheism: (a portmanteau of apathy and theism/atheism), also known as pragmatic atheism or practical atheism, is acting with apathy, disregard, or lack of interest towards belief or disbelief in a deity or deities.
Ignosticism: is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless, because the term "god" has no unambiguous definition. Ignosticism requires a good, non-controversial definition of god before arguing on its existence.
Irreligion: (adjective form: non-religious or irreligious) is the absence, indifference, rejection of, or hostility towards religion
Secular humanism: (alternatively known by some adherents as Humanism, specifically with a capital H to distinguish it from other forms of humanism) embraces human reason, ethics, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition as the bases of morality and decision making.
Dystheism: (Greek δύσ θεος "bad god"), the belief that a god is not wholly good, and is possibly evil. Trickster gods found in polytheistic belief systems often have a dystheistic nature.
Solipsism: (from Latin solus, meaning "alone", and ipse, meaning "self")is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside of the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist.
>>58365695
This seems to be incredibly accurate
Can more Americans comment on this?
>>58365695
High quality post
>>58365290
This.
Enjoy your over $3trillion/year, Shlomo.
