I caught some flak for my Prometheus thread, specifically...
Isaac Young@HariSel57511397
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Aug 28, 2024
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I caught some flak for my Prometheus thread, specifically accusations that I was strawmanning Atheism. So let’s address that here.
Why Atheism is really boring for storytelling, thread 2 electric boogaloo 🧵 1/
Why Atheism is really boring for storytelling, thread 2 electric boogaloo 🧵 1/
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Deliberate design is a completely pseudo-scientific concept (according to atheists). There’s no evidence for it, and the mainstream consensus is that life was a cosmic accident. But you can’t say anything about a cosmic accident. You can only shrug your shoulders at it. /2
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Nearly every Sci-Fi story has some form of deliberate design, they just replace the Christian God with aliens or whatever. Even though it is often atheists writing the stories, they reinsert this completely pseudo-scientific concept. Why?
Because Atheism is really boring. /3
Because Atheism is really boring. /3
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Here’s a fun drinking game: take a shot whenever you see a story treating evolution as a series of progressing stages. This is a completely nonsense read of evolution. There’s no moral component to evolution. It’s just adaption to environment. There’s no end goal. /4
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But nearly every sci-fi story treats it as such. It gets to the point where it’s straight disinformation. Every time the story is about mankind’s rise from apes to the stars, when that’s utterly irrelevant from an atheist perspective. Why?
Because Atheism is really boring. /5
Because Atheism is really boring. /5
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The end goal is Star Trek’s Federation. But why is that a good thing? Why is space liberalism the default? What is morality based on? Where are we going? Who’s to say the Klingons don’t have it right? Why are there good guys and bad guys?
Because Atheism is really boring. /6
Because Atheism is really boring. /6
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I just want to remind everyone, that I’m drawing from professed atheists. Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Gene Roddenberry, the list goes on. Look at all their work. It’s the same religious jargon that they condemned Christians for. Why?
Because Atheism is really boring. /7
Because Atheism is really boring. /7
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“But it’s all just fiction!” I hear you say. “It doesn’t matter.”
But fiction isn’t nonsense. It’s an outlining of ideals, principles. Writers don’t just write random chaos. They write an extension of their worldview. Why then don’t we have properly atheist stories? /8
But fiction isn’t nonsense. It’s an outlining of ideals, principles. Writers don’t just write random chaos. They write an extension of their worldview. Why then don’t we have properly atheist stories? /8
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A properly atheist story would be completely materialistic, accidental, with absolutely no meaning or morality that has whatever intrigue being completely incidental to the plot. Now I have to ask:
Doesn’t that sound like a really boring story? /end
Doesn’t that sound like a really boring story? /end
