The more philosophy and physics i've read, the more "atheism" as a movement or world-view, has revealed itself as this weird mixture of scientism and close minded western arrogance.

It's the pendul swinging to hard after the equally rigid organised religious world order most people lived under a hundred years ago, and still do in many places.

Atheism as opposed to some form of agnosticism is to me incompatible with the humbleness actual science and philosophy requires.

Newer historiographies in religious studies also points towards this. There was no clear boundary when "the enlightenment" came and there still is no boundaries when classifying science as something "extremely distinct" from everything else, it's all a big soup linked to the mysteries of myths, dreams, consciousness, symbols, and weird emergent properties - a fact that is mirrored in the absurdities and paradoxes of modern math and physics.

Point is, we just don't know what the hell "we are inside" or "are actually experiencing" to posit a world view with so ridiculous conviction that atheists do - and outside of the very loud minority, most academics i've met have been much more humble about the nature of reality, free will and the big questions because the hard problems are still very much hard, and even increasing in perplexity as you learn more.