philosophy

back on topic:

Dark New Atheists would agree with the New Atheists that there is no God and that seeking meaning primarily through science and reason will bring about a new secular enlightenment, but also that that's bad actually. Dark New Atheists therefore should embrace and promote obscurantism, pseudoscience, and woo, all while performatively worshiping a God they don't actually believe in.

that feels like basically half of the last 10+ years of online Atheism after elevator gate and gamergate, I guess you could say online Atheism suffered the Feminism-Manosphere split. But also feels like an apt description of modern mainstream Christianity in the US.