“Atheism isn’t ‘New Atheism’. There are so many people who aren’t cishet white men and who have experiences outside what you think of when you think of 'Atheism’. People who have a lot of privilege have gotten to be the face of atheism because that’s how privilege works, but the majority of us are marginalized people whose race, gender, sexuality, etc. have shaped our relationship to religion and nonreligion, which you’ll miss if the only kind of atheist you acknowledge is a straight white cis man. Furthermore, that image of atheism that comes to your mind is affected by the anti-atheist sentiment that exists in our Christian-dominant culture, so if you don’t usually imagine atheists as having complex and sincere motivation for their beliefs, consider why.”
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