on that note @mitigatedchaos I can’t thank you enough for bringing us the quality “atheists belong in camps” posts
As far as I can tell, you’re not really going for persuading them, nor do you seem to really gain much from interacting with them.
And your audience (that is, people who follow you) aren’t likely to be influenced away from their nonexistent seething hatred of atheists. (And it’s not that much more compelling to me than you just talking about futurist stuff by itself.)
I’m actually kind of curious, why do you try to argue with them if not to persuade?
I’m pretty sleep-deprived today because I’ve been having to watch this dog all week and he’s undergoing separation anxiety and howling at 4 in the morning.
So I got kind of annoyed at the emotional tone of the original series of posts it was in response to, and wanted to knock it down a peg.
Usually, I curate the mitigatedchaos blog for reading and would shunt such arguments to the -extras sideblog, but I also wanted to clarify a few opinions I have WRT religion that I haven’t really clarified yet on this blog.
Like, I’m reconstructing Nationalism and social centrism so people might otherwise assume I would also be pro-religion rather than far more neutral on it.