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His theory: "Movement atheists weren’t in it for the religion. They were in it [to explain sin/wrongness]. Once wider culture-at-large settled on a different, better [theory], there was no psychological impediment to switching over. They just had to replace a couple of keywords."
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"This essay started with a memory that my favorite early-'00s site had two off-topic forums: one for religion v. atheism & one for everything else. This year, SSC’s subreddit split in two: one for 'culture war' mostly about race and gender, the other for everything else."
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I'm thinking that each community's sin-finding (converging on an idea of what's most wrong with the outside world & then together railing against it) gains its steam through universal ingroup/outgroup dynamics that play out ~universally.
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