I’m hoping that it’s just the gen z/alpha version of an edgy atheist phase that they outgrow. For what it’s worth she also says a lot of kids are way more chill about LGBT students, including being respectful of pronouns.
Really hard to take a niche religious belief seriously without a large dedicated community of fellow practitioners.
Like, if you’re not regularly going to a church, there’s no peer network or social reproduction. You might become “spiritual”, but it’s going to be some religion you invented in your own head that’s divorced from any other formal setting. As likely as a non-athletic teenager suddenly becoming a baseball professional.
Organized religion is as much about the organization as the religion.
At least for atheism there’s a non-edgy, civilized version. For whatever this is, I don’t think you can make it more palatable without just throwing out the entire mindset
Hoo boy there’s a little tidbit I’d rather not know
I’m hoping that it’s just the gen z/alpha version of an edgy atheist phase that they outgrow. For what it’s worth she also says a lot of kids are way more chill about LGBT students, including being respectful of pronouns.
My experience with teenage atheists is that they usually remain atheists into adulthood.
They (hopefully) outgrow the edgy part, though, was my point.
But if they are edgy misogynists in their teens and then they outgrow the edgy part…
… Then we’ll still have a bunch of misogynists on our hand, but now their beliefs are sincere rather than performative.
It was an internet comment, not a thesis.
I think you might have picked the wrong topic, then. Atheism tends to be sincere and not just edgy.
I’m an atheist and that’s why I specified the edgy part.
Ah so you have a black friend so it’s fine.
Atheism isn’t edgy, it is a lack of belief. If you mean anticlericalism, then that’s an entirely different thing.
I’m starting to think you were an edgy atheist yourself
K. Took you one comment to group up a person you don’t know. Should I wear something for the occasion?
Atheism isn’t edgy, no.
But it can be, and that is what the whole discussion is about.
Really hard to take a niche religious belief seriously without a large dedicated community of fellow practitioners.
Like, if you’re not regularly going to a church, there’s no peer network or social reproduction. You might become “spiritual”, but it’s going to be some religion you invented in your own head that’s divorced from any other formal setting. As likely as a non-athletic teenager suddenly becoming a baseball professional.
Organized religion is as much about the organization as the religion.
At least for atheism there’s a non-edgy, civilized version. For whatever this is, I don’t think you can make it more palatable without just throwing out the entire mindset
Yeah but reminds me of 21 jump street (film). Asshole bullies will just use “why you hate my gay friend?” as the new excuse to pick a fight.
Us former edgy atheists didn’t go back to church (mostly)
It’s probably not an uncommon thing for us adult atheists to have been curious children and edgy teenagers.