What is the alt left?

Antifa members, NYT journalists, AOC stans etc etc.

I'm thankful stupid identifies itself.

We are indeed lucky.

Touche.

NYT isn't that left, is it? It always comes across to me as mildly conservative. Not Trump-stupid conservative, but definitely not far-left. (Mind you, I'm not a NYT reader, so I could be missing out on their left-wing content.)

Twitter before Musk was certainly not a left-wing echo chamber. It had plenty of right-wingers, middle of the road jokes, corporate accounts, etc.

Decent people

"Alt" is just a way of calling out beliefs you don't like as outliers, hoping that will make them go away.

The alt-right will absolutely disintegrate in time. Education is trending up, religion is trending down, and archaic views die with those who hold them.

Religion isn't dying; Christianity might be dying. What you're seeing is fashion, not progress. It's like when older people say "Oh, the kids are so good with technology," when mostly it's clicking around walled-gardens.

2021:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-...

2019:

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/260738/why-a...

Sure, casual Christianity is dying. But saying "Oh, I'm an atheist" doesn't mean that you lack a religion any more than Michael Scott yelling "I declare bankruptcy!" is a declaration of bankruptcy.

Interesting perspective considering the majority of religious people (that I've encountered) preach without practicing or adhering to established doctrine.

Would you consider those people religious, casually religious, or not at all religious?

I'm using "casually religious" to mean "I go to church because my parents always did, but I don't really believe in that superstitious nonsense." Catholicism in particular is going through a stark divide right now, because the "Christmas and Easter" Catholics are no longer bothering to show up for Christmas or Easter. So at a glance, it looks like the Church is getting more conservative, but it's really mostly attrition.

But that's all outward religious practice; my comment was more getting at my suspicion that many human behaviors are effectively religion in disguise. Where do axioms come from?

Where did religious axioms come from?

From those who sought to control through the theft of individual power and the consolidation of that power to a ruling class.

If that sounds like an odd and artificial take, it is.

Atheists know what they are doing. Even, nay especially, the young. They actively reject superstition. The totally reject the white supremacist style of American evangelical churches as utterly disconnected from Christ-like behaviors.

So why claim they are unaware of what atheism means? That is meant to comfort the bulk of evangelicals who rely on preachers for their worldview.

Firmly agree with this.