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As someone who was raised Christian but is now an atheist, I can't help but think this LARPing of faith is straight up idolatrous. It's not the worship of God as a duty to one's faith, but the worship of the religion as instrument.

What I find striking about seeing figures who've been outspoken atheists talk about embracing their Christian roots for it's utility is the absolutely naked cowardice of their position. It's Cypher in The Matrix meeting with Agent Smith and saying he wants to be plugged back in.

Freddie de Boer had a really good line in his article "Ayaan Hirsi Ali Worships The God-Shaped Hole" where he said, "Why not urge people to get into Dungeons & Dragons instead? In what sense is that a less meaningful version of indulging a fantasy?"

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