So I´ve checked some atheist YouTube channels...
It seems YouTube atheists are obsessed with claiming that atheism is "merely" about "a lack of belief", and they define the term so broadly that even "religious atheists" can exist.
By this redefinition of the word, the crazy cult leader Osho, linked to above, is an atheist. Indeed, he seems to be the ultimate YouTube atheist! Or "would have been", since the man is...I don´t know...atheistically undead somehow?
But of course, nobody IRL would use the term "atheist" in this manner. Osho is universally seen as a *religious* cultist wackjob. You can of course define words any way you like, but something tells me New, New New or Double Plus New New atheists don´t want to be associated with the man previosuly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh...
Ironically, the way most people use the term "atheism" fits the YouTube atheists themselves pretty damn well: actively anti-religious/anti-spiritual nerds who base their active non-belief in anything supernatural or paranormal on science and/or naturalism (materialism). Did I mention the nerd aspect? They are a kind of identitarian atheists.
So what on earth is the prob?
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