Claiming that /r/atheism has any significant impact on the internet culture as a whole is just the silliest thing to claim without evidence or explanation of any sort. It doesn't even say what he's claiming they did to the internet's culture just an implication that it was bad.
This statement hardly merits the same level of proof as a scientific publication. The original post is an example of the obnoxious behavior you find on r/atheism.
They feel superior to and smarter than religious people. In this extreme case, the poster expresses feeling superior to people who died in a stampede that took place at a religious event.
Internet atheists who think they are superior to believers / Believers who think they are superior to atheists are two sides of the same coin.
With emphasis, no, it’s shitty people who happen to be atheist who are the problem. :) Just to clarify, because I would never make that first statement.
“the silliest thing to claim without evidence or explanation of any sort”
You are right, I left a lot implied because my sentiment is a fairly common one. But fair to point out—my apologies. Here is a citation showing that I am far from the first person to hold this opinion on r/atheism.
Note again that I don’t hold any prejudice against any belief system; I only hold that r/atheism in particular historically fostered a culture of toxicity which makes anti-religious prejudice and personal attacks more common compared to offline spaces.
They're not complaining either. They're mocking. You're talked about complaining about bad people when atheists say these are bad Christians. They're talking about the heads of churches usually or heads of political parties. You know the people with influence and power.
When you talk about bad atheists you talk about randommorons on the internet who are mocking people who don't deserve it
Who are shitty people that happen to be religious. Criticise them for being shitty and pushing shitty policies, don't pretend that every prison who happens to be religious is responsible for them or believes and behaves in the same way.
In addition, lemmy.blahaj.zone's TOS states that they must follow the laws of Australia, which may have legislation regarding this issue:
Edit: replaced references from lemmy.world's TOS, I got the instance wrong, my bad! - Also replaced non-image links with archive.org links for posterity (image links have been archived, but they have not been replaced for embedding reasons)
initial version of the comment
No such rules in this one
Though neither specifically mention religion, here are the rules for c/196 and lemmy.world that may cover this case: