>>14287363My religious education allowed me to recognize all the hallmarks of religion in most if not all "atheist" movements. The absence of a designated "God" is just a technicality. Divine endorsement as a certificate of moral righteousness is unnecessary when your twitter echo chamber convinces you of the absolute correctness of your beliefs; eternal damnation as a threat to enforce conformity is unnecessary when your leaders are powerful enough to punish people directly.
>>14287418Atheist religion is fundamentally untethered to anything and its morality can float freely from "Basically Christianity except without Jesus" to "Pedophilia, transitioning kindergartners, and burning down cities for free sneakers is good, akshually". Christianity is bound to a moral code that no one has really ever had a serious problem with in its millennia of existence.
