pilowsky, on 2021-February-26, 16:34, said:
It turns out (naturally), that the place of atheists (like me) in society is a well-studied topic.
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I would regard myself as a secular Christian upbringing atheist (who tried to incorporate and make sense of half a dozen other major traditions etc) with a lifetime of complex experiences who has a distrust for some high profile outspoken atheist types due to their rather limited lens on the world and human experience. They/many atheists seem to deny the sophistication and complexity of human evolution, cognition, psychology, and what all the different philosophical/religious interpretations and representations of those things could be.
I prefer to work out and question (as a scientific type) what things mean(how they came about) rather than mocking them which is a common approach.
Note - regarding your comment on locus of control is it not the case that possibly the majority of the world has a very little power/control (and entitled to feel it is largely external) and many of those who mock/similar word have huge power
I feel that some extreme atheistic pronouncements/attitudes are on a par with the distrust I have with techs running our world
PS I remember when I first visited Indonesia I was advised to call myself a Christian rather than an atheist. It was a safer approach
PPS As an afterthought I should be careful what I say about papers from one of my associated (and trained) professional groups, but I do find the nature of much psychological research (including my own) to be rather frustrating in how it is researched, analysed and written up. It too seems to lose the complexity of the human mind. This thing appears not to be correlated with this but it is with that kind of thing