Red Pill Religion

Red Pill Religion, formerly known as the Escaping Atheism Project, is an anti-atheist propaganda blog which, in a manner very similar to that of MGTOW and the "mens'[sic] rights" movement, is obsessed with references to the red/blue pill from the popular film The Matrix. Also like the MRM and MGTOW, it is largely driven by fear and anger at the loss of privilege — in this case, religious privilege. Indeed, as its name implies, it also touches on the alleged "evils" of feminism, and also appears to hold the popular MRA belief about "a woman's place".[1]

Christ died for
our articles about
Christianity
Schismatics
Devil's in the details
The pearly gates
  • Christianity portal
v - t - e
Voice of the voiceful
Men's rights
Lest women catch up
Bros before hoes
v - t - e

The site was founded by Dean Esmay (1966–),[2] (also known by his pseudonym, Max Kolbe),[note 1] who was also a co-founder of the MRA podcast Honeybadger Brigade, and former editor of Paul Elam's website, A Voice For Men.[3] Esmay also claims to have previously been an atheist. However, like most so-called "ex-atheists", his definition of "atheism" does not exactly appear to be well-grounded.[4] Esmay also has a peculiar view of the meaning of "'Little-o' orthodox Christian":[4]

“”Orthodox type Christians include Eastern Orthodox, Assyrian/Non-Chalcedonian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Coptics, and even Anglicans and others who still embrace historic orthodoxy.

since at least some of these sects regard each other as heterodox from their own. Esmay appears to be Catholic and a devotee of Mary.[5]

Similarities to the Freedom From Atheism Foundation
See the main article on this topic: Freedom From Atheism Foundation

This site is also very similar to the FFAF. In fact, one of their pages suggests that they are actually affiliated with the Facebook hate-group:

“”One of our favorite outfits on the Internet is the Freedom From Atheism Foundation. We happen to know some of the principals behind it...[6]
—RPR, in their typographical excellence

Here are some of the parallels that RPR has with FFAF:

  • Like FFAF's facebook page,[8] they also have a series of repetitive, heavily-strawmanned and hilariously unoriginal 'memes and [sic] funnies' that consist primarily of assorted bigotry directed at atheists, and clearly demonstrate a dreadful lack of understanding of what atheism even is.[9]
  • Furthermore, it is worth noting that in their actual page on the matter, RPR falsely claims that the folks behind the FFAF have received the likes of "death threats" and "character assassination" (citation fucking needed).[10]

Gettin’ chummy with Conservapedia

Quite surprisingly unsurprisingly, Red Pill Religion is a big fan of Conservapedia, especially its totally not in the least bit biased atheism-related articles. They even proclaim them as the "best source for scientific info on Atheism".[11]

“”The Conservapedia article is like that, and otherwise amazing: if you want to debunk frequent Atheist talking points, this is one of your best go-to sources. Here you will find ideological Atheist history and science examining Atheism as a political and social force. You’ll also find some of the best debunking of Atheist lies on the internet.

Of course, being Conservapedia, teh Assfly's Andy's glorified blog has an article praising them as well.[12]

YouTube Channel

Like many antifeminist sites, Red Pill Religion has a YouTube channel that (fortunately) only has less than 3,000 subscribers, and less than 60,000 views.[13]

gollark: For the few people I can actually convince to use Signal, my communication with them is up to "probably private".
gollark: dis.cool was a great demonstration of that.
gollark: I treat Discord messages and reddit posts as "basically public" anyway.
gollark: Connections to websites themselves run over HTTPS, which I'm mostly trusting of (MITM attacks are a thing and the government does realistically have access to a cert I'll trust, but that's detectable), and my DNS resolution also runs over HTTPS.
gollark: I figure that if the government here actually wants to see the content of my internet traffic, they probably could individually muck with my connection/devices/whatever somehow, but also probably do not do this generally or particularly often.

See also

Notes
  1. Esmay's pseudonym is inspired by St. Maximilian KolbeFile:Wikipedia's W.svg, a Polish Catholic who volunteered to die at Auschwitz in the place of a stranger, and was canonized by John Paul II in 1982.

References
  1. https://www.redpillreligion.com/category/mens-rights/
  2. Dean Esmay A Voice for Men (archived from 25 Nov 2018 21:13:49 UTC).
  3. https://www.youtube.com/user/deanesmay/about
  4. Welcome To Escaping Atheism Red Pill Religion
  5. Ave Maria Red Pill Religion
  6. https://www.redpillreligion.com/?s=Freedom+From+Atheism+Foundation
  7. https://www.redpillreligion.com/2018/11/23/jordan-peterson-affirms-hitler-was-an-anti-christian/
  8. https://www.facebook.com/FFAF.International
  9. https://www.redpillreligion.com/category/anti-atheist-memes-and-funnies/
  10. https://www.redpillreligion.com/2018/11/20/why-are-most-of-red-pill-religion-team-anonymous-freedom-from-atheism-foundation/
  11. https://www.redpillreligion.com/2017/02/06/best-source-scientific-info-atheism-conservapedia/
  12. https://www.conservapedia.com/Red_Pill_Religion
  13. https://www.youtube.com/user/deanesmay
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