Posted by
Jason Cunningham on Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:10:12 AM
As much as the "new atheists" rub me the wrong way, I'm glad that they're shooting themselves in their feet with publicly advertised ridiculousness.
Take, for example, the verbally rabid Richard Dawkins -- really, please: take him away, white-coated men. This man who supposedly prides himself on rigorous scientific research is so scared of the possibility of God that he confesses -- when pressed by Ben Stein in "Expelled" -- his belief that the seeding of life on Earth by aliens is more likely than the existence of God. This from a man who thinks Christians are living in a fantasy world.
Then there's Peter "Der Feuhrer" Stringer, an atheist so radical that he has no qualms suggesting that parents ought to be able to kill their babies as late as 28 days after birth. Yes, it's crazy. He's crazy. Maybe not in the clinical sense, but in the sense of what can (and does) happen when people eliminate God from every facet of their lives. Such drastic action creates a slippery slope that knows no bounds -- no, Mr. Hitchens, et al., your "evolution-based" morality has no constraints, because it does not exist. This is why/how society is able to devolve from one that abhors abortion to one that calls an unborn baby a mere lump of flesh -- and, now, to one (in some circles, at least) that considers babies 28 days old or younger expendable.
What many people don't realize is that people are sheep, and as such will -- must -- follow someone or something. In the absence of God, there are many things they might follow: lust, power, greed ... in other words, their own selfish tastes and desires, which vary from person to person, thus disproving the notion of a well-defined "universal evolution-based morality" and preventing a societal moral consensus other than "anything goes."
As glad as I am that many of the "new atheists" are showing off their foolishness, I hope even more that society in general realizes what's going on and being said. Otherwise, none of us save the select powerful few will have any control over our lives. Already, we have atheists such as Hitchens calling it child abuse for parents to teach religion to their children, and saying that the government ought to be able to step in and take over in such situations. Do you want that? Today's liberals chasten the Bush administration for alleged civil-rights abuses, but nothing the Bush administration has done can hold a candle to what atheists desire for you and I. And their method of operation is the double-standard typical of those who desire power at all costs: they rail against the teaching of religion in public schools (even in religion and philosophy classes) yet work hard to make sure that an atheistic form of evolution is taught in classrooms, as opposed to simply presenting the scientific facts and letting students draw their own conclusions about the universe.
*** Everybody: Go see Ben Stein's "Expelled" ***