Very anon of him, tbf

To their credit, they're well aware they were being a turd.

I get it, I too had an angsty teenage atheist phase (minus the abuse and arson), took a while and the folks just stopped trying to get me up for church. This is why most religions have a "coming of age" event where you are recognized as an adult and choose to stay with the group. I would guess most parents dont know how to react when their kid makes that decision for themselves before then...

I was gonna say, it literally does lmao

Raw ingredients aren't the final product. Cows don't produce cheese.

It doesn't. This is what grows on trees.

He's now a big cringe retard, as proven by his telling of the story.

This is the best part lmao. This guy not knowing chocolate's main and defining ingredient does actually grow on trees is peak reddit atheist

Still waiting on my sausage tree

Everyone knows chocolate is produced in a lab as a result of a complicated chemical process and is definitely not a real occurring natural organic product that grows from a plant.

I mean yeah it's not a tree, but still.

empathy is a higher order law.

Anon forgot that having an asshole doesn’t mean you should regularly act like one.

Even if you bet on the right horse

As if there were any other way to hold any kind of opinion about what could be beyond the bounds of reality as we know it, but to just bet on shit we don't know the first thing about. It's all just bets. Nobody knows and everyone is pretending that not only are they right but their rightness is of a superior quality than the claimed rightness of others. They're still all just blind morons betting on horse races that are fixed by minds far closer to the truth and in control of it than they.

Cocoa beans are actually roots.

That's not atheism, that's nihilism which is different.

Atheists don't believe in God, largely because religion doesn't really answer any of the big questions. No particular mode of behaviour is required of an atheist. You certainly don't need to go around being destructive of quasi religious icons (Christmas trees aren't even related to Christianity it's a corporate thing).

Nihilism is just the people who are having a midlife crisis, or are just play acting at depression in order to get attention. It's not a philosophical position. It's just been whiny.

"Child abuse is cool if my kid doesn't like me forcing my religion upon them".

It betrays a lack of theory of mind, likely indicating they're below a fuzzy sort of threshold below which you don't have the cognitive bandwidth to imagine a perspective beyond your own.

Oh there's a LOT people (usually from the US) who just replace whater evangelical bs they were socialised on with a New Thing that they run on the same evangelical lines. It's why we have purity politicking everywhere

Seems like atheist in predominantly religious societies tend to behave a bit different, and I can understand that teenagers would want to make a big deal out of it.

My parents were atheists, and so have I been my entire life. But we still celebrated Christmas because it was nice and a tradition. We didn't go to church or do any religious stuff during Christmas, but ate a traditional Christmas meal, had a Christmas tree, presents and what not.

Religion was just not a topic at all, unless religious people did stupid stuff in the name of religion

I'm "militant" enough to wish that all religions would be prohibited as they're nothing but tools for control, but I won't beat someone over the head for believing in fairytales

I agree. Hate religion, not the practitioner. Unless that particular believer is a dick.