Atheist Proletyzers?!?!

[Rev. Rye]

Another atheist extremist went on a rampage last week, taking hostages at the Discovery Channel building and demanding the network do more to proselytize evolution and fear about environmental Armageddon. Before he harmed anyone, police shot the terrorist dead.

Wow. They can't even tell atheism from the fucking hard greens.

The violence and the response of atheist evangelists, such as American shock-scientist PZ Myers, illustrate how organized atheism increasingly resembles religion.

Writing for the Discovery Institute, David Klinghoffer pointed out that Darwinian theory has a strange effect on people who are “crazy, wicked, or both.” He’s correct, but he might as well have said “belief” or “philosophy” has a strange effect on people who are crazy, wicked or both.

Wait... is he citing the Discovery Institute? Red flags should be going up here.

Klinghoffer explained that Columbine High School shooter Eric Harris, Jokela High School shooter Pekka Eric Auvinen and Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter James von Brunn espoused an evangelical loyalty to Darwin and atheism.

Notice the instances he gives; all three of these were effectively Social Darwinists, an ideology all but abandoned after both the atrocities of Nazi Germany, and the realization that genetics is much more complicated than previously thought. And, of course, it's always been incompatible with the scientific theory of Darwinism: I mean, isn't the entire point of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection that a similar process to the type of breeding we humans do to domestic animals is responsible for the variety of life in nature?

Just as religion has prophets and proselytizers, so does atheism. Conventional wisdom conflates Charles Darwin with atheism, and some atheists embrace the late great scientist as a prophet — even though Darwin wanted nothing to do with atheists and understood the ultimate limits of science. Darwin didn’t waste time trying to disprove creation theory, just as smart religious leaders don’t waste time trying to disprove scientific discoveries that reveal how God’s creation evolves.

To Quote XKCD,

Just as James Dobson and other evangelists cultivate audiences in order to spread their beliefs, so do atheist evangelizers. The bigs are Britons Christopher Hitchens, who is battling cancer, and Richard Dawkins, who turns 70 in March. Myers, who grabbed attention by vandalizing sacred religious property, is a young and energetic American evangelist on track to become the James Dobson of atheism.

And in case anybody wants to know just what "sacred religious property" Meyers vandalized, I'll let you in on it: It was a cracker. Along with a few pages of the Oxford University Classics version of the Koran, and a copy of the God Delusion.