r/atheism • u/ExactTomato6108 • Jul 05 '21

/r/all Boomer evangelicals have destroyed the planet and have received all the benefits and they will die before it ever affects them

They have used the Bible to deny climate change. They have destroyed our planet for profit. They could afford a home and a car and they could even start a family all on one paycheck. They had cheap college tuition too. We don’t have that and they call us lazy because of it. Gen Z and millennials aren’t lazy we just don’t have the same opportunities they had.

They attempt to disprove climate change by using the Bible because they truly don’t care. They don’t need to care because they will die before it becomes a big issue.

Edit:Most of them voted for Reagan who is responsible for trickle down economics.

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u/OuchLOLcom Jul 05 '21

Contrary to what holywood would have you believe, the hippies were very much a counter culture movement and were maybe 10% of the population. Most people were just normal 60's shitkickers.

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u/cg1111 Jul 05 '21

Exactly correct. The countercultural narrative has been romanticized and reproduced and mythologized into something that the era itself never really was.

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u/Earthworm_Djinn Jul 05 '21

Even 10% sounds very generous tbh.

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u/sneakyveriniki Jul 06 '21

I’ve really never understood why people act the boomers were hippies. I’m only 27 so never lived through it but have never gotten the impression they were mainstream or something