the athiesm of women/people of color/lgbt people is absolutely different than the athiesm of cishet white men and i feel like people forget that a lot
how?
Don’t have spoons for long explanation – also this is only speaking for christianity – but religion has been a force of oppression for women, people of color, and lgbt+ people and the rejection of the religion is often coupled with the rejection of how religion treats them.
I’ll also say that abuse survivors are included in this because it is a reaction to and an attempt to reconcile how (christian) god would allow abuse to happen.
For straight white men atheism is usually rooted in intellectual and rational superiority complexes. It’s a “i am more rational and intelligent than you, how can you believe in something so obviously fake” thing as opposed to a reaction to a societal institution that upholds their oppression and abuse.
Women, PoC, Queer people, immigrants, trauma survivors, etc: How can I believe in something that teaches you to be cruel? How can I trust the books that tell me of peace and love, when you use your faith to hurt me? How can a loving god allow [insert injustice of the day]?
White Men: I, as an Intellectual, eschew silly superstitions that say I might, someday, after my death, face one (1) single consequence.
i don’t really know anything about sufjan stevens but every time i see a picture of him i feel like there’s no need to make jokes about him ‘cause he’s kind of Beyond that, nothing can touch him ‘cause he just does NOT give a shit
I feel like “thank you lesbian” and “fucking superb you funky little lesbian” are two parts of a very powerful trifecta, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what the third part could be
Part 3 is from that Billy on the street clip where he’s running around with a load of lesbians and says “let’s go lesbians”
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