I did make up my mind on this before Reddit was invented, so a swing and a miss there.
It’s reductive because nobody wants to read a 600-page treatise in a comments section, which is why I forgive your equally reductive hand-waving about unspecified other faiths. The word “indoctrination” is key here. Teaching your child philosophy is not indoctrination. The abuse is choosing for them before they are sufficiently complex consciousnesses to choose for themselves. This occurs most commonly, and is most socially acceptable when it comes to gender and religion.
Reddit atheist is older than Reddit too, the term just became given that name by it being so prevalent on Reddit. (In the same way that atheism existed before the word “atheism”)
It’s been around almost as long as secularism in society
I did make up my mind on this before Reddit was invented, so a swing and a miss there.
It’s reductive because nobody wants to read a 600-page treatise in a comments section, which is why I forgive your equally reductive hand-waving about unspecified other faiths. The word “indoctrination” is key here. Teaching your child philosophy is not indoctrination. The abuse is choosing for them before they are sufficiently complex consciousnesses to choose for themselves. This occurs most commonly, and is most socially acceptable when it comes to gender and religion.
Reddit atheist is older than Reddit too, the term just became given that name by it being so prevalent on Reddit. (In the same way that atheism existed before the word “atheism”)
It’s been around almost as long as secularism in society