I'm recalling back to the 2013 ANN Podcast episode about Vic where Justin Sevakis and Zac Bertschy, self-admitted secularists, spent more time grilling Vic on his Bible Study panels than any rumors regarding him and female fans (despite a subtle jab by Bertschy). I'm almost convinced that some of the alphabet soup lifestyle KickVic tards are purely in the movement because they are projecting their hatred for Christians onto Vic.
In my lifetime, atheists, and in this case, Western atheists, who like anime, are like a contradiction. You're free to believe whatever you believe, but despite official consensus and population polls saying otherwise, Japanese people are some of the most spiritually pious people in the world. Even if you point me out to the bazillions of sci fi and mecha anime out there and claim "it's free to interpretation", it's absolutely hard to shake the apparent heavy underlining and fundamentally foundational concepts and themes of Japanese thinking and cultural foci that anime comes to bear, including teachings and creeds from Shinto and Buddhism, and even in some cases, Christianity as well. Even to video games and JRPGs, the latter which enjoys the hell out of bashing the fuck out of Christianity like religions, many edgelord weeaboos overlook the fact that there even characters in the party or are heroes who are those still devoted in their in world major religion because they're more against the worldly and material atrocities than the beliefs.
As my abject and deeply rooted cynicism and distaste, and major disrespect and rancor towards the likes of Zac and ANN is very apparent, and vocal, I find it even more laughable at how Zac and his fuckbuddies are anime fans in the first place; not just for being very obvious burnt out anime fans running on unhealthy ultra concentrated doses of nostalgia and bitter selfish spoiled fan entitlement, but for the fact that they are a step away from wearing fedoras to help accompany their SJW agenda as atheists to sate the same thing as troons and costhots: "Fuck you dad!"
A little tale from me: I used to be friends with someone who thought that anime was great because "there's moral ambiguity to anime and everything is gray", and he was just as much of a geek culture atheist who also engaged in Renaissance fairs, medieval "martial arts" groups and was a hardcore advocate of "male feminism". I dropped him like a brick once I learned what he wanted to champion.
TL;DR, anime isn't a good herald and coat of arms for atheists.
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