RE: Toaster strudel alliance takes on drugs, atheists and liberalism
March 13, 2013 at 7:51 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 7:54 pm by jstrodel.)
I saw someone on this thread say something about the democratic party. Liberalism is not the same as the left. I did not use the term "left" to indicate the democratic party, I meant it to indicate radicals. It is significant to point out that a substantial portion of atheists are radicals. This is not the same as being a democrat.
People are entitled to their own political beliefs, if people believe that America is the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany, they are perfectly able to have that conviction. It is significant the number of atheists that have convictions like that though. And the number that are either openly Communist, Marxist, or so deeply influenced by radical leftism that they are more or less communist. This is what a substantial portion of America is like.
I am not going to say that radicalism is intrinsically evil, or that there have not been some Christian radicals.
My point is that radicalism is a very serious thing and atheists commonly do not treat it seriously. They seem to be proud of their tolerance of extreme views for an easily discernable and praiseworthy motive, the free access to information, but at the same time tend to completely neglect the damage that radicals can cause. They also will not accept the degree to which radicals use atheism to spread their beliefs. As far as I can remember, I have never seen any atheist denounce the Marxists who use atheism to build their movement. Someone said that atheism has no leaders, this is untrue, obviously some atheists have more influence than others and are de facto leaders, however if it was true, it would be the scariest proposition possible. Atheists are often accepting of virtually all behavior, regardless of how destructive or how risky it may be.
The average atheist will laugh at the suggestion that political radicals are anything to take seriously or worry about.
People are entitled to their own political beliefs, if people believe that America is the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany, they are perfectly able to have that conviction. It is significant the number of atheists that have convictions like that though. And the number that are either openly Communist, Marxist, or so deeply influenced by radical leftism that they are more or less communist. This is what a substantial portion of America is like.
I am not going to say that radicalism is intrinsically evil, or that there have not been some Christian radicals.
My point is that radicalism is a very serious thing and atheists commonly do not treat it seriously. They seem to be proud of their tolerance of extreme views for an easily discernable and praiseworthy motive, the free access to information, but at the same time tend to completely neglect the damage that radicals can cause. They also will not accept the degree to which radicals use atheism to spread their beliefs. As far as I can remember, I have never seen any atheist denounce the Marxists who use atheism to build their movement. Someone said that atheism has no leaders, this is untrue, obviously some atheists have more influence than others and are de facto leaders, however if it was true, it would be the scariest proposition possible. Atheists are often accepting of virtually all behavior, regardless of how destructive or how risky it may be.
The average atheist will laugh at the suggestion that political radicals are anything to take seriously or worry about.
