>ummm, ackshually, atheism has never gained popularity in any historical age due to the very fact that it is an unverifiable, irrational, and unscientific claim.
>>18577126It never gained popularity in any historical age, because a high-low alliance supresses it. The rich benefit from theology to justify their riches, and the poor do what the reach tell them to do, because they are retarded. The mid, where atheism does arrise, is squeezed.Which is why atheism booms specifically after bourgeoisie revolution, and then wanes as this new middle class divides to form its own top and bottom, who immideately make a high-low alliance and become conservatives.
>>18577126>What is China>What is Epicureanism>What is Buddhism
>>18577293>atheism somehow doesn't benefit secular materialismwew lad
>>18577363How much secular materialism is there in the politics that billionares fund and support?
>>18577364all of liberalism in the west?
>>18577126Atheism is literally factual reality
>>18577311Epicureans weren’t atheist in the modern sense. They didn’t deny that the Greek gods existed, instead they argued that the Greek gods were non-interventionist beings who neither demanded worship nor answered prayers. This is basically an early form of deism
>>18578352Not an early form of deism, because the Epicurean gods didn't create the world. Instead, they're immortal aliens living deep in the voids of outer space, and they influence us by passively emitting telepathic signals, which is how we know they exist.https://www.academia.edu/36564126/The_Polytheism_of_the_Epicureans
>>18578352Then what is the point of gods so divorced from our reality
>>18577293Religion as a whole has been oppressed by an increasing trend towards secularization. It's more possible now to be an atheist than ever before and practically every institution that isn't explicitly religious is wholly secular. The only places where it's deemed inappropriate to express atheist views would be in a church during service and even then people would just roll their eyes at you. Open advocation of religious views in most workplaces is grounds for termination.Atheism failed to gain popularity because atheism is socially inferior. It replaces a unifying belief with nothing. It replaces a shared moral and metaphysical framework with nothing. It has no imperatives or commands and generates no will except the will to make being an atheist easier which tends to manifest as resentment towards religious privileges. >who immideately make a high-low alliance and become conservativesThere are many Christian socialists in the world though. 'Conservatism' isn't just 'anything outside Marxism'.
>>18577311>>What is ChinaThe country with numerous temples and religious sites and constant ceremonies and festivals that concern spiritual affairs like the Qingming Festival. >But I read a statistic online that said Chinese are atheist!No: Most Chinese are effectively paganistic and don't belong to an organized religious order but they absolutely have spiritual beliefs.They're literally some of the most superstitious people on Earth. You've heard of "crystal girls" in the West. In China, everyone's a crystal girl.https://www.thinkchina.sg/society/chinas-youth-embrace-mystical-power-crystals
>>18578781if an american politician said he was an atheist, he'd lose next electionif an american doctor or lawyer openly spoke about being atheist, they'd lose customersatheists have to pretend to be christians , so that other atheists who fool themselves into thinking they are christians can give them moneyso much for atheism being accepted
>>18578820Atheism is an extension of Christianity though
>>18577293The high-low alliance of conservatives is my favourite political theory.
>>18578835>thinks Christianity is the root of everything kekd
>>18577126Yes, it has. It's always been universally assumed in every age ever. By newborn children who were not yet told to believe otherwise.
>>18579823>It's always been universally assumed in every age ever. >By newborn children who were not yet told to believe otherwise.>literally advocates for the beliefs of babies!>literally advocates for the beliefs of the ignorant!
>>18579823>doesn't teach child about subject x>wow! this child is so wise for not knowing about subject x! I too will hold the same opinion as this ignorant child!
