Movement atheism has always been, to its detriment, tribal. However, many of those now levelling that accusation are a big part of the story of its tribalism. There's a lot of motivated forgetfulness and rewriting of history going around.
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The messianic fervor, the fondness of binaries (in-group/out-group, righteous/sinner, woke/fascist), boundary policing, self-righteous moral puritanism, intolerance of dissent - it's all the stuff of religion.
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The problem is human beings in groups. Most of us are capable of doing terrible things if we're doing it in the name of systems of thought and morality endorsed by our in-group.
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And never forget that people get off on the vilification of the dehumanized other. It makes us feel good about ourselves & it reaffirms the folkways of our ingroup and its clear moral superiority.
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