There are entire sects of certain religions where the main focus is on spreading their religion as much as they possibly can.
There are entire departments in major secular industries and even whole multi-billion dollar businesses dedicated to marketing, advertisement, and sales.
That’s not really comparable to YouTube atheists “wearing their atheism on their sleeve”.
The big difference between Atheism and Sectarianism is that we have a very successful model for monetizing secterian beliefs. That’s creates a vicious cycle of recruitment, expansion, collections, and new recruitment.
But all you’re ultimately describing is a business cycle. Kellogs and Ford Motor Company operate the same way. I see more ads for big-ass trucks than I do Jesus, even living in the Bible Belt.
As soon as someone figures out how to make Atheism marketable (and guys like Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Ricky Gervais have definitely made progress), you’ll have people running Atheist MLMs in the same way the Mormons do.
you’ll have people running Atheist MLMs in the same way the Mormons do.
lol bet. goofy ass opinion
This is akin to a cheater thinking everyone else also cheats. Just because all the churches run grifts for your pocket cash, you think athiests (whove been around just as long) will do the same. okay
Huh, what a reply. Not really sure what to do with this one.
Like, first off, it feels like you’re trying to conflate atheists and secularism with… capitalism for some reason? Like, you understand that businesses employ religious people as well as atheists right, and that secular organizations don’t exclude religious people, they’re just devoid of religious affiliation?
And second, Henry Ford and John Kellogg never ordered crusades be carried out in the name of personal motor vehicles and/or oatmeal enemas. The Catholic Church literally commanded the slaughter of millions of Muslims in the name of their god. And don’t get me wrong, I’m no bootlicking capitalist, and I recognize that most corporations are evil and greedy, and run by evil and greedy people. But nothing a corporation has done really compares to the violence and bigotry perpetrated by most of the larger religious sects, especially of the Abrahamic religions.
I’m pointing out that marketing isn’t unique to religious organizations. And that conspicuous evangelism is what people fixate on because that’s what they see, in the same way that New Atheism is what Christians see because that’s the cohort of half-a-dozen self-promoting demagogues who do the Buy My Book media circuit from time to time.
And second, Henry Ford and John Kellogg never ordered crusades be carried out in the name of personal motor vehicles and/or oatmeal enemas.
Oh how totally wrong you are.
Henry Ford and Antisemitism: The Notorious “Dearborn Independent”. Ford famously proselytized the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion through his newspaper, his car dealerships, and his political lobbying campaigns. He’s arguably the proximate cause for an antisemitic resurgence in Europe in the World War interregnum period.
In Germany, Theodor Fritsch reprinted Ford’s Dearborn Independent articles as books in four, cumulative volumes. In 1924, Heinrich Himmler – a leader of the Nazi Party – wrote of Ford that he was “one of our most valuable, important, and witty fighters.” In Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”), Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto, Henry Ford is the only American referred to favorably, where Hitler calls him the “only a single great man.” He continues, “Ford, [who], to [the Jews’] fury, still maintains full independence… [from] the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions.”
He quite literally did order a crusade in the name of his car company.
But nothing a corporation has done really compares to the violence and bigotry perpetrated by most of the larger religious sects
As often as not, they are joined at the hip. Aristocrats need the clergy to cement their social legitimacy. Clerics need the aristocrats to assert military dominance. The two groups routinely co-mingle socially, crib off one another’s notes, and prop each other up politically.
From Constantine to Osteen, these people build the institutions to serve one another. Modern day plutocrats like the Kochs’ ALEC, the Peter Thiel Foundation, and the Trump/Kushner business conglomerate cultivate religious fervor in their base of support to build up fanatical support. Meanwhile, church groups and cult societies that align with them are lavished with private money, while those that resist or rebel become the target of government sanction.
Ok, sure, but the oroginal post is about how atheists specifically don’t proselytize like religious people do. And your argument is that… Capitalists do marketing? Like what?
There are entire departments in major secular industries and even whole multi-billion dollar businesses dedicated to marketing, advertisement, and sales.
The big difference between Atheism and Sectarianism is that we have a very successful model for monetizing secterian beliefs. That’s creates a vicious cycle of recruitment, expansion, collections, and new recruitment.
But all you’re ultimately describing is a business cycle. Kellogs and Ford Motor Company operate the same way. I see more ads for big-ass trucks than I do Jesus, even living in the Bible Belt.
As soon as someone figures out how to make Atheism marketable (and guys like Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Ricky Gervais have definitely made progress), you’ll have people running Atheist MLMs in the same way the Mormons do.
lol bet. goofy ass opinion
This is akin to a cheater thinking everyone else also cheats. Just because all the churches run grifts for your pocket cash, you think athiests (whove been around just as long) will do the same. okay
Not even close
Huh, what a reply. Not really sure what to do with this one.
Like, first off, it feels like you’re trying to conflate atheists and secularism with… capitalism for some reason? Like, you understand that businesses employ religious people as well as atheists right, and that secular organizations don’t exclude religious people, they’re just devoid of religious affiliation?
And second, Henry Ford and John Kellogg never ordered crusades be carried out in the name of personal motor vehicles and/or oatmeal enemas. The Catholic Church literally commanded the slaughter of millions of Muslims in the name of their god. And don’t get me wrong, I’m no bootlicking capitalist, and I recognize that most corporations are evil and greedy, and run by evil and greedy people. But nothing a corporation has done really compares to the violence and bigotry perpetrated by most of the larger religious sects, especially of the Abrahamic religions.
I’m pointing out that marketing isn’t unique to religious organizations. And that conspicuous evangelism is what people fixate on because that’s what they see, in the same way that New Atheism is what Christians see because that’s the cohort of half-a-dozen self-promoting demagogues who do the Buy My Book media circuit from time to time.
Oh how totally wrong you are.
Henry Ford and Antisemitism: The Notorious “Dearborn Independent”. Ford famously proselytized the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion through his newspaper, his car dealerships, and his political lobbying campaigns. He’s arguably the proximate cause for an antisemitic resurgence in Europe in the World War interregnum period.
He quite literally did order a crusade in the name of his car company.
As often as not, they are joined at the hip. Aristocrats need the clergy to cement their social legitimacy. Clerics need the aristocrats to assert military dominance. The two groups routinely co-mingle socially, crib off one another’s notes, and prop each other up politically.
From Constantine to Osteen, these people build the institutions to serve one another. Modern day plutocrats like the Kochs’ ALEC, the Peter Thiel Foundation, and the Trump/Kushner business conglomerate cultivate religious fervor in their base of support to build up fanatical support. Meanwhile, church groups and cult societies that align with them are lavished with private money, while those that resist or rebel become the target of government sanction.
all these examples are christians doing christian things.
wheres the athiests doing christian things like you said?
Ok, sure, but the oroginal post is about how atheists specifically don’t proselytize like religious people do. And your argument is that… Capitalists do marketing? Like what?