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captainjonnitkessler · 1 year ago

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There's a certain type of person who's like . . . "Well, atheists/skeptics are joyless close-minded assholes. I mean, OBVIOUSLY religion/superstition isn't LITERALLY real, only an IDIOT would think anyone was taking it LITERALLY, you only believe that people mean what they say because you're only familiar with Christianity, everyone ELSE is using religion as some kind of extended metaphor for humanity or just believing in things for funsies"

And it's like . . . a) that's frankly more insulting than anything I was probably saying and b) if you also don't believe something is literally true why are you getting so mad that I am saying that something is not literally true

#it's like a motte and bailey argument where they mean everything literally #until you try to point out that they're just plain wrong at which point they were only speaking metaphorically; OBVIOUSLY.#thinking back to that one time a popular tumblr user got in an argument with someone about whether animism was 'true'#and the popular blog kept waxing poetic about souls and colonies of bacteria and lichen and how #just because that's not the words indigenous people used doesn't mean that isn't what they meant when they said rocks were alive #and the other person was like . . . no. animism suggests that rocks have souls. and they don't #and people got SO MAD #atheism #skepticism umbrella

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