Ontology talk:9k/RD/Q3300/atheism429
... if you don't want nonbelief to be persecuted, you shouldn't advance Idealist philosophies that try to say that freedom is some kind of special thing with a particular identifiable essence that can easily be purified out and applied to everything or that North American tribes are untarnished societies that are the example for all societies to have to be "restored" to an original perfect state,
because Idealist philosophies are non-Materialist, and ultimately when people support non-Materialism it will eventually crush atheism.
I've seen this in small ways. I've seen people try to claim that atheism is incapable of 'respecting living beings' or 'respecting ecosystems' and it's necessary to create "secular animism" if we can't get people to return to animism. I've seen people say that pagan religions are _better_ than nonbelief because they are the only thing that can stave off egoism. I've seen people attribute all colonialism and non-sustainability to specifically not believing in ancient religions any more.
What do you say to that?