3:24am May 4, 2014

@glintglimmergleam

youneedacat:

patternsmaybe:

WRT white atheists:

It’s always about Jesus with them, too.

Like, white atheists, I am *not* interested in your feels about Jesus and how you’d like me to have the same ones.

(Note to Christian followers: I do not intend this as an attack on Christianity. Just on people who are unclear on the concept of the existence of other faiths).

I’ve noticed that a lot of white atheists do this thing where they say “God doesn’t exist” and then when questioned, you find out they’re talking only about the Christian god, sometimes they’ll talk about Jewish or Muslim but it’s almost always just Christian. They never take on other religions or even act like other religions have meanings. Sometimes they even use other religions as jokes — “haha that’s just like believing in Zeus” (hello, Hellenic pagans).

I don’t see why you find that so surprising; most white American atheists came from crappy Christian upbringings that they found painful and upsetting, and they respond in adulthood by carrying around an axe to grind against the abstract concept of Christianity. I put myself in this category; a shitty religious upbringing can mess you up, and we need a space to vent about it.

I have gotten better about keeping this away from my friends who don’t feel this way. I realize that it counterproductively drives a wedge between otherwise decent people, so I don’t bring it up unless I know I’m among other atheists, which unfortunately does not happen that often.