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"I am seeing more
and more bumper stickers saying, 'God, save us from your
people,'" said Walsch, author of "Tomorrow's God," which
proposes a broader concept of God than traditional religions.
"Most of the killing in our world has not been done by those who
do not believe in God but by those who do."
This is a silly
statement in several senses, since it is manifestly not true
that most of the killing in human history has been done by those
who believe in the Judeo-Christian God. Even if Walsch is
speaking crudely and incorrectly lumping in the worshippers of
every historical pagan god and goddess with those who
worship(ped) Allah, Pharoah, Caesar, Kali Durga or Jesus Christ
as functionally identical believers in a deity of one sort or
another, his assertion is meaningless since this encompasses the
overwhelming majority of individuals past and present. The only
relevant point is whether these diverse religionists are
disproportionately responsible for bloodshed; the unprecedented
murders of the godless Soviets, Chinese and Kampucheans
indicates that atheists have a far greater taste for blood
sacrifice than anyone since the Aztecs.
"Atheists are pretty
much demonized," Castle [co-founder of Atheists for Human
Rights] said. "People see atheists as anti-religious,
anti-something good and with no moral compass. We want to show
that we do have a moral compass and it is based on making this
world the best that there is because, in our view, it is the
only one there is."
Perhaps they see atheists this way because atheists are openly
and overtly anti-religious. Christianity, manifestly the most
humane and civilizing force in history, is certainly something
atheists oppose, even hate, and I've yet to encounter a single
atheist who can make a case that his moral compass is anything
but something instilled by the Judeo-Christian culture in which
he has been raised. Sans what they unwittingly absorb from the
world around them, they have no moral compass - which is why we
can expect general societal immorality to increase in America as
the ability of Christianity to influence non-believing
individuals continues to wane.
Nonbelievers -- they
go by various names, including atheists, humanists, freethinkers
and brights -- say their goal is to become a part of the
everyday fabric of society and be as accepted as anybody else.
Atheists remind me
of the obnoxious fat kid who can't figure out why everybody
hates him. If you insist on giving yourself titles that imply
everyone else is anti-human, a slave thinker and dull, don't be
surprised when no one wants anything to do with you. They're
pretty bright, those godless. Interesting, too, that not a one
of these supposedly first-rate thinkers was able to successfully
make a case for either atheist rationality or morality in this
forum a few months ago. |
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