How The Cult Mind Of Christian Fundamentalism Persists Among Many Atheists

What I'm about to say,

I DO NOT say on behalf of "team atheist", nor for secular humanists, leftists, or any other cultural niche. "Atheism" is like being a non-astrologist, or a non-Leprechaun-ist. It tells us nothing about what is true or valuable. In fact, my criticism of "atheism" goes much further than that, if we start talking about an atheist-themed "community". "The atheist community" is a doomed project. Not even reframing it as a "secular humanist" project can save it. Why not? Because, as a politically weaponized social environment, ... It's virtually identical to the rabble of Christian fundamentalist cults most escapees have escaped from.

For someone to REALIZE they just escaped an intense system of unethical control, ... is only an early stage of their liberation and maturation. Subsequent exploration, discovery, and growth are lifelong projects. It can take many years to even NOTICE some of the deeply engrained dysfunctions such cults have ingrained into us. When people ESCAPE any version of a fundamentalist religion, ... they still have lines of malicious coding running in their mind's Operating System. Worse yet, some escapees lack the WILL and the CAPACITY to become better people. Unfortunately, those "personalities" see the Power Vacuum of the Atheosphere ... as an opportunity to quickly ascend into social power, as cult leader-personalities predicated on being "anti-cults" and "champions of the people". From that soapbox, cult personalities pretend to care about a range of social issues that (in truth) they couldn't even begin to care about. Although, to be fair, that's rather brilliant; if we ignore the ironic anti-ethics of their ethics-themed ambitions. In any case, many people who have only recently escaped some version of the Christian Cult, .... find themselves ... "drawn to the familiar". As a result, they end up right back where they started, and don't even realize it. After that, many stop growing and stop moving towards a true liberation, because the illusion of growth and autonomy are being so expertly generated ... by predatory social leaders who learned (from Christianity) how to generate that illusion. To put this into perspective, ... Christianity taught Stallen those same abilities, along with their trademark devaluation of "all who oppose the righteous kingdom". And it worked on exactly the same sorts of sheepified minds, pre-conditioned by exactly the same sort of Christianity. "The atheist community" is a very fucked up place. -But not because of "atheism". Rather, because of the religious conditioning recent deconverts are still holding onto. Here, today, we find the atheist/Liberal social paradigm as "an equal and opposite reaction" to the violent culture they are pushing back against. This includes: *Us VS Them* thinking,

*purity culture. This is measured, not by sexual ethics, but rather ... by 100% compliance with groupthink. This is used to gatekeep, as a test to see who is "really one of us". * social politics, *attempts to protect social predators (in positions of power) from exposure and accountability "for the sake of the community", while still soapboxing on a platform of accountability for everyone else, *outright lies about anyone who ever took a public stand against those predators, *petty and divisive High School social hierarchies, cliques, and dramas, * rampant psychosocial violence; even outright bullying, as attempts to destroy divergent voices and divergent virtual territories. This is done without even the slightest worry that they could be driving their targets into mental illness, onset (or relapse) of substance abuse, or suicide. In fact, some are rather hoping it does result in such things. They don't even care what that would do to the family (including young children) of the people they are trying to destroy. It's "the Price you pay" for defying the "totally not the mob". This is instrumental to collective efforts to control what the in-group (and its allies) are allowed to think, feel, do, and say. What else? *Treating every content-creator channel as if those are countries (of various sizes) to socially infiltrate and ideologically colonize, *reverse-racism (which pretends not to be racism), and * reserve sexism (which pretends not to be sexism). All the while, ... * Members feel obliged to pretend not to notice all of the gross dysfunctions and hypocrisy inherent to their entire project. - Else risk being demonized, attacked by the group, and shunned. Many members of "the atheist community" talk freely about such things in private. But they dare not call it out publicly.

-- -- Christianity is The Empire. Jesus was a Sith Lord. But the "atheist community"? Welcome to Moss Eisley. -- -- I speak only for myself. I don't pretend to be a Jedi. I'm a dried-up moisture farmer, on the outskirts of virtual civilization. I speak from what I've seen and experienced. I speak to what I EARNED my way into deeply understanding.

Even with a gentle smile, a positive vocal tone, and carefully chosen words,. ..

Just the mere act of trying to spread such religiosity into other people's minds, ... is an act of violence. But don't get it twisted. PEOPLE ... merely sharing theories, musings, or perspectives about life ... is **not necessarily** violent. But such ideologies are deeply violent. In fact, it's hardly anything else.

Even when they speak of "love", they do so as a form of love bombing and grooming; to lure people into a psychologically violent control system. Once there, they'll be weaponized against all other humans, and against themselves, and exploited as a resource for the rest of their lives.

The result of it is very, very often an increase in suffering throughout our world.

With that, there has been immeasurable loss; loss of potential, loss of health, and loss of life.

-And just as importantly, a severe dampening of people's humanity.

There could never be a proper accounting. There could be no way to quantify all the tragedies caused by it * until now, * nor tomorrow, * nor for as long as it takes for our descendants to grow and heal past it.

[assuming such people FAIL to drive our species into extinction, in our very near future]

They'll never understand until they find a way to care about all the lives ruined and lost, and then take responsibility for it.

While MAGA attempts to build the 4th Reich, capital-L Liberal "Social Justice"-culture emulates their oppressors. The very large cup of my charitable patience has run dry.

It surprises me to see a growing number of "atheists" emulating the tragically violent, divisive, and controlling religions they rage against.

If there is going to even BE a future to speak of, we need to stop pretending that such religiosity is even remotely morally credible.