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Athiesm isn't derided because no opposing viewpoint is offered.
New Athiesm only happened because almost no believed in their religion anymore... How many were ready to go to war in the middle east to defend the besmirched honour of American empire after 9/11? Now how many were advocating crusade against the Saracen to spread the literal word of god before 9/11?
We know what true conviction based religious belief looks like... it looks like the Crusades, or the Mormons fleeing into the desert, or Jihadists taking the fight to the infidels.
And that doesn't exist in America... even the Mormons abandon core theological convictions the second the US state wants them gone (their prophet was murdered in the same house as his wailing wives... and they axed polygamy to appease the government that persecuted them).
New aethiest issued a challenge that religious conviction was the font of all the worlds problems, and instead of retorting that lack of faith was the font of all evil and we needed a moral, political, and possiblity military crusade to drive that unbelief out...
All the alleged "Christians" in America just folded and basically agreed Chrisitianity was a failed predecessor of progressivism.... and just begged that in private they be allowed to privately imagine Jesus as a proto hippy
A true Christian is a martyr. Much more like Padre Pio than a crusader. Crusades were an empire western civ thing and the merger with Christianity. OG Christianity was a slaves religion.
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