| Atheism and Religion: Another Retard Fight |
| Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
If I had to define myself --something I'm loathe to do at the best of times-- I'm an apatheist. I believe the existence or non-existence of God is unprovable and totally irrelevant. I think it's a goofy question and a goofier argument. God exists: Now what? I must be acting according to His will as He made me and obviously has some idea of what's going on. God doesn't exist: Should I murder you?
Like I said, goofy.
The only thing I hate more than militant religious fundamentalism is militant atheist fundamentalism. I think it's naive to reduce all or, really, any of humanity's problems to religion. If we didn't have it, we'd just find other reasons to ignore facts, destroy new ideas and to kill each other. I can't understand why the people who accept evolution find this hard to believe. We are pack hunting, predator apes. Religion is not the problem. We are.
So, while I spend some time attacking things that are demonstrably wrong - astrology etc. - I usually leave religion out of it. But the atheist movement is demonstrably assholeish. And hopelessly stupid. They have left themselves open to this attack in "American Conservative Magazine" entitled "Secular Fundamentalism". It nails them on everything they have done wrong; their smugness, their arrogance and their whole religious fervor for what remains an unproven and unprovable position.
What's even worse is that they were warned. Not just by me -- no one listens to me anyway -- but by Robert J. Sawyer, who wrote an op-ed piece for the Ottawa Citizen in April of 2007. Titled "A Bright Idea For Atheists" he recommends they drop the whole I'm smart and you're dumb attitude and even predicts the response from the religious community. He's a science fiction writer and this is hardly his most impressive prediction, but it was certainly right. The article in "American Conservative" proves it.
I hope that the atheists listen --now that the evidence is in and all-- but something tells me they won't. People get drunk on dogma and really drunk on feeling smarter than each other. Robert's belief in reasonable people having a reasonable and polite conversation until truth wins the day is a good one. I hope it catches on. It won't. My belief that "I'm an evil stupid twit and so are you but at least I'm trying" probably stands even less of a chance. Oh well. The dickheads win again. Doesn't mean they always will, but they have this round.
You see, religion is not the problem. Atheism is not the problem. We are the problem. But we can also be the solution. All we need to do, to begin with, is accept reality. You can't change something you're afraid to look at. But it sure can change you. Probably not for the better either.Labels: religion |
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