Why did internet atheism die off? It really felt like it was going somewhere. Seems like everyone online is Christian now.
When it began turning against islam.
>>83671211Atheists (like me) are still online, but the topic is pretty narrow. Pretty much everything has already been said about it.
>>83671211It was cringe and they shoved bananas up their ass while taking on faith-based libtard belief systems, see the Athi+ scandal.
>>83671232islam was actuqally an acceptable target, see "religion of peace" jokes and the likes>>83671211when it became a social club/status instead of a belief system. also there's still lots of athiests they just stopped attacking xtianity because like... who the fuck actually cares? maybe when it was a centerpiece of western culture railing against it was a worthwhile passtime, but now there's no point as christians are largely rightoid larpers looking for more justification
>>836712112000s counter culture was the fakest thing on the planet
>>83671211unironically because one day a bunch of spergs on reddit took the circlejerking too far and everyone thought it was extremely cringehttps://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/38i8se/the_faces_of_atheism/
>>83671232This and Atheism+ in general.Although, there is a "new new atheism" in the undercurrents right now.
>>83671211The fedora guy meme was probably the last nail in the coffin. Internet atheists never recovered after that and were cemented in the history books as cringe nerds. They failed the physiognomy check. see: >>83671286
>>83671211Probably because a lot of people aren't religious anymore compared to like 20-30 years ago. You just come off as annoying as fuck preaching how your atheist to a room full of non religious
>>83671211Once it became obvious that atheism is just another belief system Any legitimate reddit atheist from that time period will probably tell you that he's actually "agnostic"
>>83671211Atheists are fucking bananas
>>83671211It was just a pop label like emo or scene. Came and went. Noone cares, especially not enough to risk getting fatwa'd>>83671232
>>83671211For me it's because atheists doesn't really have anything to offer except nihilism and dread and amoralism. That and a definite belief in a godless universe is also an unprovable religious belief. You either choose to believe we're wet robots that came about by blind chance in a pointless universe, doomed to face oblivion at the end of our lives, or we can choose to believe in something else that's a little less depressing. It also seems like all the ills of modernity are caused by amoral nihilism, so you need to believe in a reason for existence to combat that.
>>83671390There are plenty of other things normalfags preach to the choir about and are praised for it. Orange man, Brandon, wokeness, anti-wokeness, cost of living, gas prices, boomers, zoomers, millennials, dating, being terminally online... Atheism just stopped being a trendy topic.
>>83671211The decline of Christianity resulted in the masses embracing gays and trannies.
Atheism is just a stage in the development of the collective unconscious ofnthe internetIt goes>Christain>Atheist>Alt right>Pagan>Gnostic>Esoteric>SchizoOf course there deviations and some people stay in certain stages, but materialism is an incomplete worldview. You will hit an existential crisis, how you come out of the crisis is what defines you.
>>83671431Protestantism is what led to those things. China is an atheist country, but it doesn't have those issues.
>>83671446It do be having those simply because of the male surplus, they're just actively combating it
>>83671446Jews are the necessary ingredient. Jews pushed all of this stuff while attacking a normative religion that had pro-civilizational and anti-degeneracy value systems. China has a fag problem due to the sex ratio imbalance too though, it's just not pushed by state or media like in white countries by jews.
I miss this era, pretty sure most of the genuinely cringy people that participated in this became pretend tradcaths. I met like two of them on discord, "ex-atheists" as they call themselves. Honestly tho, I despise both Islam and Christianity. It's no coincidence that 2010 was a good time on the internet and the world.
>>83671211I'm a spiritual atheist that believes in spirits cause I get sleep paralysis and experience supernatural beings during them. I don't believe in a controlling god though, so these beings live within their own jurisprudence.
>>83671458Protestantism was what let jews do it.All modern societal ills stem from Martin Luther pushing sola scriptura while eroding the authority of the Catholic church.
>>83671458Protestantism, especially the Radical Reformation Protestantism that is most common in America, is morally relativist and easily subverted by hostile outsiders. "It's all about your interpretation, bro" turns into gay degeneracy 100% of the time. If Jews were burned at the stake for not believing what the church as a authoritative body believes things would be different.
>>83671211Two reasons: it wasn't inclusive enough for religions considered minorities and the rise of secular mysticism, which conveniently is vague and handwaivy enough that you can just say muslims and pagans are both right because they just interpret some energy entity spirits differently or something.
>>83671211They got t-boned by their own ignorance in supporting retarded lgbt beliefs as well as the new age movement ironically. People found God in other ways
>>83671242>they shoved bananas up their assI mean.. that's literally the best part
>>83671489Same thing happened to the Catholic church though. Pozzed, full of faggy shit. Christianity is either just a long-running jewish op or is inherently easy to subvert. Jews are a necessary ingredient in any case. No one would have promoted any of the fag shit or other poz without them.
>>83671211most of the "watching stupid people and laughing at them" sort of content died off people just got bored >everyone online is Christian now.I guess you feel like it because you assume everyone you talk to is christian unless they explicitly state otherwise
>>83671211It died off because atheism was never the real point of it. The goal was to antagonize the political right, so they all switched to woke leftism when the opportunity arose. This necessitated abandoning atheism because woke leftism is pro-Islam. Online "Christianity" is the other side of the same coin, where antagonizing the left is the real point and actual Christian doctrine is ignored whenever convenient.
Cringe internet atheists basically normalized atheism just enough that the average person with a brain can be freed from religious fear enough to question religion.They're no longer provocative enough to exist as public personas. The performative rightoid "Christians" have no problems with atheists and don't feel provoked by them, because none of them really believe in God so they're basically in agreement.
>>83671211Because culture moves in cycles. One ideology takes hold of the mainstream culture, everyone who follows it thinks they're fighting for something bigger than themselves, and then eventually they go too far and piss everyone off, then the contrarian counter-culture ideology starts taking over until it eventually takes hold of the mainstream culture, and the cycle is complete. Any "based redpilled tradcath" who thinks they're going to change the world until everyone is a hardline Christian is falling for the same delusions that "debate bro atheists" from 2014 fell for. Eventually the mainstream will get tired of this form of Christianity and something else will replace it.
>>83671211They were always simply "more rational than you" kind of people. I guess atheism was just a starting point to this archetype, similar to laisse-faire economics. Easy topics to hold autistic debates over.
>>83671211The whole thing was built around resenting your parents for making you go to Sunday School occasionally. In the meantime, Leftists were ruining the country at every level, islam is shitting up entire cities in Michigan and Texas, and you have jeets building 50 foot tall statues to demonic monkey entities near Houston. Turns out Christianity not only wasn't a problem, it was the glue that made Western civilization the dominate force on earth.
>>83671211>Why did internet atheism die off? It really felt like it was going somewhere.It did. Creationism was largely routed so there was nothing for them to do anymore.
>>83671438i've been in this existential crisis for so long now i don't think i will come out of it
>>83671232I figured it was the opposite. Atheism was usually against Christians only so this lack of Christianity could have invited the muslims. And we don't want that.
>>83671211hi it's me an internet athiesti don't type about it or engage typically because it is a giant waste of time>mmm bananas
>>83671211Because "atheist" are just anti-christianity.
>>83672848>it was you guys!>no! it was you guys!
>>83671211>Why did internet atheism die off?did not. I'm an atheist. Always has been. I just don't run around anonuncing it and shoving it other people's faces, because I'm too intelligent.>It really felt like it was going somewhere.wdyem? it is the future. Just give it a few hundred years more.>Seems like everyone online is Christian now.people are lying. lying is the nature of a human being. No politician or tyrant is religious. They believe in money and power, not fairy tales.>>83671232Islam is just as fake as any other religion. It doesn't matter whether that one monotheistic fairy tale or thousands of pagan fairy tales. No difference.
>>83673365>I just don't run around anonuncing itthat's exactly why it is considered dead
>>83673424and that is just fine. I don't care what other people think.
>>83673459probably, anyway the topic is about internet phenomenon of argue-ready atheism, not atheists themselves
>>83671211>Why did internet atheism die off?If you mean the specific creators/personalities, they simply lost their edge.And the enshitification via woke (see atheism+) accelerated the issue.>It really felt like it was going somewhere.Another "problem" is that the points of online atheism were won. We simply won.Even the most retarded boomer christians now agree that mandatory sunday school is cringe and that trying to shove religion everywhere is probably not the best idea.Heck, the Right now argues on default internet atheism points against Islam. We literally won.In Europe too. It was Internet and pre-Internet atheists who first talked about the dangers of islamization (see Salman Rushdie, Pim Fortuyn, Lars Hidegaard, Pat Condell etc.) and paid dearly for it.The entire right-wing in Europe now functions on online atheism framework when it comes to Islam and default secularization (let's say moderate online atheism) on everything else.I personally stopped talking about it after the effort to get mandatory religion out of public schools succeeded in my country.Unlike leftism (and atheism+), online atheism was a project, not a movement. The main objectives were met. We all moved on to something else.Pat Condell now does generic right wing stuff. The Dutch atheists are now in the Parliament as "far right"/"populists" and so on.>Seems like everyone online is Christian now.Lol no.Stop letting the algorithm fool you.Btw, at least half of the online cucktians are also atheists. It's a grift.
>>83673481>anyway the topic is about internet phenomenon of argue-ready atheismthere is no point to argue. for multiple reasons and skipping over the fact that some people can not exist without a shepherd, there is the fact, that >internet-atheism-argumentis facts, logic, common sense, etc. And obviously over time it has automatically won everything. Nobody can argue with things like the objective reality. Christopher Hitchens and his points remain undefeated even in death. Wanna argue? Debunk public atheists, like the four horsemen of atheism and other public atheists like for example Ricky Gervais.TL;DR: I don't have to argue.
>>83671211Because religion is a grift. And this is a decade of grifting. Except now it's no longer megachurches but random online faggots who post Christ is king and ai generated bible imagery.
>>83673536>there is no point to arguethere is, considering you're right now saying the usual stuff from way back then
>>83673559your post makes no sense, which is why there is no point in arguing.
>>83673568things only not make sense if you do not make sense out of them
>>83671211Like all fads it dies when there's no ROI to be had. Back to christ who promises afterlife and other abstract stuff
>>83673573more nonsense.
>>83673585the divinity will never make sense to those who have not seen a high-school girls in thighs
>>83671211Internet atheism was intelligently designed for the environment that existed in the last 2000s while obnoxious christianity managed to adapt and evolve into the new forms we have today.
>>83671211>Why did internet atheism die off?It didn't. That version of the internet was very small (comparatively) and mostly populated by nerds/'tists.Every retard on Earth is online now thanks to shitphones, and the numbers are back to being more representative of reality.Dipshits love magic stories that promise fake rewards, and much more than that, they love conformity. If the person to a normie's right believes in sky men and the person on the normie's left believes in sky men, the normie will be believe in sky men too. Nothing they fear more than being outcast from their group.
I really like Alex O'Connor's atheist content, he engages a lot more with religious philosophy than the previous wave of atheists did. A lot of the popular atheists previously were not really interested in any philosophical or existential questions and would just end the conversation at "it's just science bro"
>>83671232Fpbp, having a spine is easy when going for the safe option.
>>83671211>atheist>amazingnope
