(July 15, 2013 at 7:49 pm)deetheeatheist Wrote: This thread I want reopened for the fact I've been seeking online for the longest for likeminded people. My beef is that you would think for yourself as far as being a atheist/xtian, but why not accept anarchism also. Most atheist seem to me to worship the government as if they need something to obey. Government to me are the gods who will inflict "real" life damnation unto its fellow slaves and followers. It sickens me to my stomach when some have it but just don't got it yet!
What makes you think that we haven't considered anarchism and then rejected it? Is it a philosophy so compelling that anyone you considers it immediately accepts it as true?
We don't worship the government, we simply understand its necessity. We know that without a lot of checks against its powers, it can go bad very fast. Which is why we also try to make sure that unlike gods, they can't inflict real life damnation on whim or arbitrary law. Just because we realize that without the government the society would devolve into gang wars and mob rule - as it does in places without government - doesn't mean we consider it indispensable.
