A Booger of an Atheist
Sam Harris, in one of his speeches, complained as usual about the public perception of atheists. Related to statistics that place atheists as a group well below even the public acceptance of homosexuals and Muslims in American culture, Harris added that finding out you have an atheist next door is perceived to be worse than discovering even a sex offender there. The latter can only harm the body, the atheist could damn your child's soul.
Well, let's not allow the atheists to play such sympathy cards for themselves. As I document in Return of the Village Atheist, atheists have earned their reputation in history. Futhermore, I don't know anyone who would make the "worse than a sex offender claim," though I guess it is possible.
Rather, I think that the revulsion you get from finding out that your neighbor is an atheist is more like discovering that the guy in the car next to you has his finger in his nose up to his elbow. Moreover, it's like knowing that guy, due to his naturalistic nasal distraction, is about to crash head-on to his own demise. Atheists are self-consciously self-absorbed (epistemologically speaking), and refuse to see the highway of reality.
There's just something viscerally repugnant about someone who's great concern in life is to do away with any concept of God. Harris as others love to play the sympathy card, but atheists have always tried to do so: during the French Revolution, and even Karl Marx, as I write in the book. But a wolrdview like atheism that destroys the foundations of love and morality deserves no sympathy, epsecially when it's proponents are the ones driving the strife to begin with.
"Surely . . . the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife." (Proverbs 30:33)
Well, let's not allow the atheists to play such sympathy cards for themselves. As I document in Return of the Village Atheist, atheists have earned their reputation in history. Futhermore, I don't know anyone who would make the "worse than a sex offender claim," though I guess it is possible.Rather, I think that the revulsion you get from finding out that your neighbor is an atheist is more like discovering that the guy in the car next to you has his finger in his nose up to his elbow. Moreover, it's like knowing that guy, due to his naturalistic nasal distraction, is about to crash head-on to his own demise. Atheists are self-consciously self-absorbed (epistemologically speaking), and refuse to see the highway of reality.
There's just something viscerally repugnant about someone who's great concern in life is to do away with any concept of God. Harris as others love to play the sympathy card, but atheists have always tried to do so: during the French Revolution, and even Karl Marx, as I write in the book. But a wolrdview like atheism that destroys the foundations of love and morality deserves no sympathy, epsecially when it's proponents are the ones driving the strife to begin with.
"Surely . . . the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife." (Proverbs 30:33)
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Wow Jawillde you're right! And since we jail or execute people who harm or murder a child's body shouldn't we at least imprison atheists? The Bible commands us to kill atheists with our own hands. If we believe in God shouldn't we be out there killing atheists?
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