Despite – or perhaps because of – attending Catholic schools for 12 years, I have been a lifelong atheist and have no intentions of adopting any faith any time soon.
Does this make me an idiot?
Maybe.
Like most atheists, my opposition to religion is that faith is not objective, not provable, unscientific.
Atheists claim devotion to reason and evidence, and it is in this claim that they betray themselves. Because questioning an atheist’s beliefs using reason and evidence often leads to hateful reactions, shunning, even threats of violence.
How can this be?
After all, atheism is not a “belief system,” but the vast majority of atheists do subscribe to another set of beliefs. They are people of the Left. Over 70% identify as Liberal, and nearly all Communists are atheists.
It seems that the human need to believe in something bigger than themselves is a strong one, and in place of God, the atheist instead worships Government.
Where a Christian might pray to God to fix this thing or that thing, the atheist prays to Government to fix whatever irks them.
Pass a law. Vote for this guy. More regulation. Raise taxes. Repent ye sinners and all woes will be solved by the God of Government.
In their devotion these groups are nearly identical. Their belief is unshakeable, it is a part of their very identity. But in their justification, these groups are quite different. The Christian is well aware and accepts that their belief is an act of faith, whereas the atheist insists that their beliefs are based on reason and evidence.
But point out the logical conclusion that whatever government does, it does so only through the threat of violence, will the atheist then say, “Interesting, tell me more?”
No they won’t. They will look back with the same blank stare as one would get by telling an Evangelical that there is no God, or telling a child that there is no Santa Claus.
But at least the Evangelical and the child can claim to be acting on faith and faith alone, whereas the atheist is trapped. The atheist claims to follow only reason and evidence, so when reason and evidence contradicts their beliefs they ought to question those beliefs, right?
But they don’t.
For example, point out to an anti-gun atheist that the only ways guns could be banned would be for them to be confiscated by men with guns – logic and reason – and the rather poor outcomes historically of such confiscations (Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Cambodia, North Korea) – evidence – and one will make no progress at all.
The people who claim to be all about reason and evidence are just about entirely immune to reason and evidence that contradicts their “faith.”
Atheists are idiots.
The atheist belief in the State comes along with another tendency: Sterility. Here are the birth rates among religious faiths in America:
It takes a birth rate of 2.1 children per woman to maintain a society, especially one dependent on young tax payers.
Social Security for example, taxes young workers today to pay retired people today. It is not a savings plan, it is not even an insurance plan, money collected today is spent today.
The people who retire and rely on Social Security in the future will need taxpayers in the future to collect from. The atheist with no children is thus relying on the fertility of the faithful.
The government funded services that atheists so adamantly support with words, they do not support with deeds.
