Despite attending Catholic schools for 12 years, I have been an atheist as long as I can remember, 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 sends them running.
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. Atheists are people of the Left. Over 70% identify as Liberal, and almost all Communists are atheists.
It seems that the human need to believe in something greater than themselves is a strong one, and in place of God, the atheist 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. Protest in the street for government to do ‘something.’ Repent ye sinners and all woes will be solved by the God of Government.
The Christian is well-aware and accepts that their belief is an act of faith, whereas the atheist insists that their belief in government is based on reason and evidence.
But what happens when reason and evidence suggests that government cannot do what the atheist believes?
They deny it.
It’s lies. It’s propaganda. It’s been debunked. It’s old-fashioned. It’s evil. It was paid for by someone I don’t like. And if that fails then it’s on to name-calling, you’re a racist, a homophobe, an anti-semite, a sexist, a bigot.
Anything and everything but… reason and evidence.
Atheists do believe in reason and evidence, but only if it agrees with the conclusion they’ve decided upon in advance.
Whatever the issue may be: Abortion, Climate, Welfare, Guns, Healthcare, you name it, the atheist will align with state power. They have faith in their god: government.
Along with this faith comes another tendency: Sterility.
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.
Selfish.
Atheists are not particularly concerned with the future, they have no heaven or hell to worry about, nor do they have children to be concerned with.
The childless atheist leads an inherently selfish life, and in defense of this, they often make overt displays of virtue. The key word is “display.”
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They frequently justify their infertility by bemoaning the myth of over-population. Casting themselves as a hero by not having children, despite the fact that living standards have risen dramatically while population rose by the billions.
Atheists are rather fond of something called ‘virtue signaling,’ making open displays of what a good person they are. They are activists, environmentalists, fighting for equality, against discrimination, and for anything else that will cause other people to see them “doing” good.
In truth, they seldom “do” anything, besides beg, demand, and cajole their god to do something. Actually solving the problem is up to someone else, somewhere, somehow.
Christians on the other hand are more interested in virtue itself, and are much more realistic in
If I live next door to a Christian, they can go to church, pray, read the bible, or do whatever they want. Their beliefs have literally has no effect on me. They have their
But if I live next door to a Liberal, who is constantly voting for big daddy government to impose their morality on everyone else. Then there is literally no end to their imposition on me. And if I try to follow my own conscious, liberals support men with guns arresting me for not doing what they want. And then they want to lecture me on being more “tolerant.”
The Christian would never dream of forcing me to pray, even at the cost of my mortal soul, but the liberal has no problem telling me what kind if light bulb I can use, how much of my earnings I can keep, or what my child should learn in school.
The Liberal of course does not think of it this way, the liberal just shrugs and says, “That’s democracy.”
Christian try convert by wird, lib by sword
The atheist may mock Christians for their beliefs, saying, “Ha, you believe in an imaginary guy in the sky? How silly.”
Athiest say they reject irrational authority.
A liberal without a child is basically a vampire. Why? Because in order to support the policies that they want, it needs future tax payers. Contrary to popular delusion, social security payments in the future are not made by contibutions in the present.
The Christian is concerned with virtue, while the liberal is concerned with virtue ‘signalling.’
I have never been met with so much as a harsh word from a Christian for stating my lack of faith, yet I have lost numerous atheist friends for questioning the god of Government.
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.
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 dreadful history of such confiscations (Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Cambodia, North Korea) – evidence – and one will make no progress at all.
The atheist picks and chooses only the reason and evidence they like. They are entirely immune to reason and evidence that contradicts their “faith.”
