An atheist content-creator calling out the really existing atheist subculture online. I noted some of these things myself. For instance, the rather obvious fact that the US atheist milieu is dominated by young White middle-class males. Or the dogmatic, cock-sure and "fundamentalist" character of much atheist discourse, which sounds like zealous Christianity in reverse.
Recent research suggests that there is also a divide between "closed" and "open" atheists, the latter being agnostic and more positive towards spirituality. At least online, it seems that particular space is mostly female. In other words, the divide between male / male-coded atheists and female / female-coded religious believers is reproduced *within atheism itself*.
If you can even call the so-called "spiritual atheists" real atheists at all - on *that* score, the dogmatic atheist-materialists may have a point. If you start (re)exploring spirituality, you will most certainly end up in some kind of non-atheist-coded milieu, given how the terms "atheism", "religion" and "spirituality" are usually defined in the modern Western world. Compare how difficult it is (in practice) to combine metaphysical dualism with atheism!
Otherwise, I was struck by how stereotypically female-coded this content-creator is. She feels "exhausted" by male discourse, wants to have community even with Christian women, isn´t interested in rationally proving Christianity wrong, and so on. Make of that what you wish.
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