I say this knowing that people stuck within the violence of communities that are extremely conservative and deploy violence to maintain that conservatism through mandatory and functionally-mandatory power structures don’t necessarily have an outlet to deal with the resulting trauma from that and that this is has to be considered as context when people vent in toxic ways about religion.
Not an unpopular opinion, but upvoted anyway because people have a right to know that they don’t have to participate in c/atheism type spaces at all. Those communities tend to attract a very specific demographic.; I don’t know if it’s just young or incredibly privileged and headstrong, but it’s been a pattern for decades. You, dear reader, are not expected to participate in it. Sometimes I wonder if it’s all short-term participants who just pop in for a few months or years to get it out of their system. If it works for them, hey, I’ll let them do their thing. But it’s totally valid to find those communities to be too much, even unfortunately delving into toxicity on occasion. It doesn’t make you a bad person to pass that judgement. Personally, I block these communities when I make a new account or join a new platform for very similar reasons to what OP describes.
It leaks over into c/comics which is annoying
the block button is your friend. not yet on lemmy, but on other platforms i have blocked into the hundreds of accounts. especially for c/atheism types you’ll probably quickly find it’s just the same four or five people making the same antagonistic comments anyway lol.
Case and point: