Yep. And it's not focused on religion or cults of personality, either. It broadens out
beyond, say, conspiracy theories with real political impact like QAnon and voter fraud
all the way out to the alienation many feel from social media, incels, mass shootings,
doomscrolling, the pandemic of existential ennui, gerrymandering, oligarchy,
disenfranchisement, etc. Hell, I'll even blame the 15 lbs I've gained over the past 2
years on a "lack of belonging"! ... yeah, that's the ticket.
On 7/19/22 08:57, Marcus Daniels wrote:
When it becomes as a serious as dogma, it seems like it might be time to
confront what is leading to the addiction rather than the addiction itself.
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I agree. And that's why the criticism that atheism *is* a truth claim (a belief) is convincing to
me. Standard caveats #notallatheists, obviously. But I find it especially in the
"deconstructed Christians", those atheists that are really just running from a toxic
religiosity. They need a recovery group to cope with their traumatic history. The problem is that
their recovery group *seems* to orbit "atheism", whereas it shouldn't.
Addiction recovery methods often involve "substitution". E.g it helps to use
nicotine patches to quit smoking. Or, alcoholics can drink tea every time they get the
urge to quaff some vodka. Recovering Christians may tend to substitute Atheism for
Christianity. It *is* a category error. But someone who is habituated to metaphysical
claims might invert atheism and treat it as a truth claim. I think a lot of recovering
Christians do exactly that.
On 7/19/22 08:34, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Glen writes:
< And that's something non-religious atheists don't really have (though they
clearly *want* it: https://seattleatheist.church/). >
A support group connected to an idea undermines the integrity of the idea.
It's culty.
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