Why are atheists so overwhelmingly white and male?

[Godless Socialist CEO]

You may find this book interesting because it talks about Progressive Christians and how many were pushed out of Christianity and "othered"

I agree with you that Christianity and religion as a whole has been used to do some of the most atrocious things on Earth! But there has been sects of Christianity that fought for progress. If it weren't for the Black Church then we wouldn't have had the Civil Rights Movement. There were also progressive Jewish people and Catholics that fought for our rights in this country.

I will say in our country that when one thinks of the Religious Right we think of Protestants mostly. This is a bit of an erasure of Christianity and those who are more left leaning and fought for human rights, equality, etc.

Fwiw I’m hatred is primarily towards the right wing of Christianity but regular Christians don’t do shyt to help man

 

[ViShawn]

Fwiw I’m hatred is primarily towards the right wing of Christianity but regular Christians don’t do shyt to help man

Ever read The Righteous Mind by Jonothan Haidt? He talks about how religious and secular in groups behave.

For the record I was raised Catholic and I have my gripes about Protestants in this country lol.

 

[Amo Husserl]

Thats what we're calling white suprmacy now

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Real talk, I didn't read the OP in full.
Just responded.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Many populations have performed demonic acts in the name of religion? This has been the case since the beginning of religion.

Not sure I understand your point.

Many people have murdered someone with a hammer……. Should we stop using hammers to repair or build things….. if you’re intellectually and morally bankrupt, you can weaponize just about anything

 

[Remote]

but now you have the fear of knowing that life is temporary

I have no fear of that at all.

 

[KamikazePilot]

Honestly there might be a god or not but I honestly believe they gives very little of a fukk about us

Most “Religious” people in the USA don’t live their religions so i would say most people in the US are atheist.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Fwiw I’m hatred is primarily towards the right wing of Christianity but regular Christians don’t do shyt to help man

Marginalizing reconstruction and the civil rights movement just to honor atheism…….

Mr. Charlie is so proud right now….

 

[UpNext]

Whenever I hear a so called black atheists say he has trouble dating black women I already know that he has a hard time getting p*ssy to begin with, or just dates a lot of non black women in general because that’s what he prefers:.. If you check most boxes, most sistas under the age of 32 won’t give a solitary fukk about your non beliefs when it comes to a higher power

Yeah a lot of these dudes that say that probably brow beat/verbally abuse their significant other on the topic and expect them to stay with them. No way you can convince me that some of the crazy shyt I see folks saying online about people's religious beliefs isn't said IRL.

 

[Dr. Acula]

Didn't ask who "practiced Christianity," asked about the mental stranglehold religious ideas have on the global population.

Because, at least in the west, this is explicitly what it was used for. There was a reason why slave masters put so much value in their slaves being good Christians while preaching how slavery is justified in the Bible. Again, control.

It's also why the Japanese cut themselves off for 200 years from westerners because they saw what Christian missionaries true goal was. They saw their citizens being brainwashed against the rule of law in their land and instead putting more stock in the word of Jesus, a foreign belief system. They rightly saw it as the west trying to undermine their society to benefit them and killed a bunch of them before sending them packing. Bible in one hand and sword in the other. Christianity was used as a weapon of control just as much as political beliefs like communism and fascism.

 

[ViShawn]

As a result of white men dominating atheism there's a lot of sexism that permeates the community but never talked about.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539518303443

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Because, at least in the west, this is explicitly what it was used for. There was a reason why slave masters put so much value in their slaves being good Christians while preaching how slavery is justified in the Bible. Again, control.

False

 

[The Pledge]

most ppl arent atheists because isn't practical... a life without God leads to nihilism and depression

Holy shyt

 

[Savvir]

Jesus was Jewish
Not Christian

He was killed by Jewish people because he went off script....

That's why his life is an example of how Christians are supposed to act...

If he lived like a traditional Jew, there wouldn't be any blueprint for Christianity.

get your bible game up

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

Because black atheists aren't vocal and annoying about it. You wouldn't know a black atheist IRL if you met one.


Outside of the white adjacent black atheists. They're just as annoying as their white counterparts.

Saying you an atheist in our community is like saying you a republican

 

[Jaguar93]

Bruhs in this thread already answered the question. It’s because majority of bruhs aren’t that vocal about it. Because it’s frowned upon in the community, and because they’re not attention seeking lames. It’s not that deep bruhs lol.