Since people are talking about Prometheus again, let’s return to...

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Since people are talking about Prometheus again, let’s return to one of my favorite topics

How atheists can’t help themselves reinserting religious impulses into narratives, a thread 1/ 🧵

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Now Atheism is a really boring ideology for storytelling. There’s no God, no morality, and no meaning. Everything is an accident, and we can take only the most superficial material interpretations possible.

This kills all storytelling except the most nihilistic genres. /2

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And this presents a problem because nihilism is well… boring. It can’t sustain a narrative. People seek meaning. People seek purpose. It’s not just instinctual. It’s necessary.

So what do atheists do? They take old religious meanings and filter them through an atheist lens. /3

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So what are we going to do? God is real but he’s an alien. Creation has a purpose but it’s evolution (I always find that funny. Sci-Fi pretends you can evolve to a higher state of being, but real evolution doesn’t have a higher state). This goes on… /4

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The redemption of mankind is through our IQ and eventual ascension into Godhood. It’s all the same beats except through atheistic and materialistic virtues (or subversions). The story is just as religious but it’s now bent for a really shallow religion. /5

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These tropes are so ubiquitous that we take them as given assumptions for the Sci-Fi genre, but they’re just recycled ideas (mostly from Christianity). And so Atheists steal their depth from what is rightfully religious truths. We just pretend it’s more “scientific”. /end

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If you want further commentary on this topic, I have a full essay on it. It’s pinned on my Substack page, or you can find it in the link below:

open.substack.com/pub/isaacyoung…

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