I don't think this is true. Neoreactionary atheists can understand that many Christian traditions are in line with our nature, and thus are way, way better than the beliefs of modernity. Society would have to be *radically* reformed before our interests would start to split. https://twitter.com/HicManOpt/status/1150725249186631680 …
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Replying to @17cShyteposter
Something that I have pushed ZHP on several times: do you really think “Christian ideals are better aligned with our nature” allows a trad atheist to follow the ideals as consistently as someone who thinks they’re divine revelation?
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
I suppose that depends on just how closely aligned Christian ideals are to our nature. If the answer is "perfectly or very close," then no
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Replying to @17cShyteposter
force of the pt is: “let’s keep the rational, natural parts of christianity and dump the silly parts” has been tried, it was called the Enlightenment, the endgame is a bearded-lady UU minister grooming a troubled teenager as a transgender guinea pig in a church basement
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
If the Enlightenment's diagnosis of human nature was largely wrong, sometimes laughably so, it's not at all surprising it would get Christianity wrong, too
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Replying to @17cShyteposter
But the Enlightenment went wrong precisely wherever it decided to throw parts of Christianity it thought were silly overboard. “Trad atheists” have seen one iteration of this, know to leave some room for the precautionary principle, but it’s still Scott Alexander all the way down
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Scott Alexander is only capable of following reasoning until it contradicts progressivism or until he can come up with a reason for why it doesn't contradict progressivism He recently had a post where he claimed he *never even noticed* the massive explosion in AIDS after gay lib
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