- Atheists have shifted from being disrespectful towards believers to being overly respectful, engaging in a ritual of debunking the idea that Christmas is a reappropriation of pagan or Roman holidays.
- This disdain for arguments about the pagan roots of Christian religious practice is a prototypical example of the current turn in atheism.
- This shift has caused atheists to neglect the essential tasks of atheism, such as arguing for the non-existence of a supernatural deity and attempting to limit the destructive power of religion.
- This shift has been caused by the New Atheists becoming politically right-coded, and atheists now scrambling to disavow them.
- Ultimately, this is a classic example of an essential question: which is worse, insult or condescension?
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