Eilonwy of LlyrMay 12, 2023
timberwraith

A white man discusses the gullibility of religious children while his face and by line hover over two children of color studying religious texts.

The imagery of this article reflects the utter racist cluelessness that has long become the calling card of online atheism.

May 12, 2023 at 4:15amWeb
Show threadtimberwraithMay 12, 2023

I skimmed the article. Thankfully, the author dismisses the childhood gullibility model which was posited by Richard Dawkins.

The really weird thing is, not a single white christian child was pictured in any of the pictures.

The specter of one western white guy evaluating the theories of another western white guy with only pictures of a combination of religious minorities and people of color is... pretty gods damned clueless?

https://onlysky.media/wgervais/is-religion-rooted-in-childhood-gullibility/

Is religion rooted in childhood gullibility?

The idea that kids accept what they are told uncritically, including religious beliefs, is intuitively satisfying. Then there's the research.

OnlySky Media
Show threadtimberwraithMay 12, 2023

It smelled of white colonizers, or members of a dominant demographic, discussing the status and worth of other groups of people with far less social and political power.

Which is fairly shitty.

Show threadShepherdessMay 12, 2023
@timberwraith particularly since white folks aren’t the global majority and while Christianity is the most populous religious umbrella it represents less than a third of the world’s population.