I Signed Up to Study Sexual Health. What I Got Was Gender Ideology, Fetishism, and Porn. If someone had told me these things, I would have accused them of culture-war paranoia. That was before I enrolled in a professional training program that delivered an extreme form of ideological indoctrination.

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I know it's been a bunch of small steps.

One big step: Community. Every atheist envies church for the ability to interact with other people outside of a work environment.

Bunch of corporations (and enemy governments like China) realized this and made Colleges into that new social environment to replace church. A place you're stuck at because you paid a lot of money. Where you are surrounded by people under constant economic stress who mostly believe the same things you do. In order to pass the class it's expected that you will discuss the topic (repeating it aloud for weeks) with other students and teachers. It's brainwashing you pay for, that you cannot leave because you paid for it.

Religious assholes accusing atheists of "Devil Worship" did not help matters.

That's my perspective on how it started. There's safe place for every faith expect the faithless. Easy targets for manipulation. Those who ask too many questions are ostracized. What most atheists don't know, is that if you walk into a church, you won't be beaten to death if you want to hang out and make friends (depending on the location).