Hmmm… There are a lot of batshit crazy atheists. The community of regular posters on this site is not a good measure of what’s out there. I’ve visited sites where it’s all just irrational Christian bashing and the atheists engage in as much fallacious BS as the theists. The people that last around here, tend to be rational and objective. As I previously indicated, stoic ideas are in many different philosophies or belief systems, even in the Bible. People use and repeat what works.
Stoicism in the bible:
Some scholars find many traces of Stoicism in the New Testament , particularly in the teachings of the Apostle Paul. One even concludes: “Paul was a crypto-Stoic” (Engberg-Perderson, in Strange & Zupko, 2009).
Stoicism in Buddhism:
Stoicism and Buddhism are similar philosophies that both encourage people to find happiness internally and to not be controlled by life’s ups and downs. Both philosophies also offer ways to master desire.
Here are some ways that Stoicism and Buddhism are similar: