(April 18, 2025 at 10:51 am)Angrboda Wrote: From my personal experience, atheists like to think themselves more honest and straightforward than other people.
Whether they are is an open question that is not readily resolved by the rather partial accounting that we get online.
Remember Richard Dawkins? He used to be popular with atheists on line.
He has come out as a transphobe and a fan of Elon Musk. So there's at least one atheist in the world who is not on our team.
In general I just think it's a bad idea to emphasize the us vs. them mentality. In-group vs. out-group, that kind of thing. It leads to overly-easy judgments, and partisanship, like "my team is better than their team, and they would all be better if they were more like me." That's not the way to get peace love and understanding.
It may well be human nature to divide things up that way, but it's something we can guard against in our thinking. Each individual and each issue has to be taken on its individual merits.
