I’m a little new to advocating free-market capitalism, but I have never been new to advocating atheism. Real atheism.
Since christians love to attack atheism in defense of their religion, I thought I’d do just that.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/read/2943…-world-history/
As we approach Christmas, the one day a year that we set aside to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, we are hearing noises among intellectuals and rock stars about the “dangers” of Christianity to world peace and cultural tolerance. The most recent attack on organized religion came from homosexual rock star Sir Elton John, who thinks that organized religion—specifically Christianity—turns people into “hateful lemmings.” According to John, “I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays.” His solution: “ban religion completely, even though there are some wonderful things about it.”
Atheist Richard Dawkins, writing in his new book, “The God Delusion,” claims that many of the world’s conflicts around the world are due to the murderous religious impulses. Columnist Robert Kuttner claims that “The Crusades slaughtered millions in the name of Jesus. The Inquisition brought the torture and murder of millions more. After Martin Luther, Christians did bloody battle with other Christians for another three centuries.”
Dinesh D’Souza, a Fellow at the Hoover Institution recently pointed out the glaring errors in such statements in the Christian Science Monitor. He noted, for example, that the Spanish Inquisition sentenced to death approximately 10,000 individuals. Some historians claim another 100,000 died in jail.
One of liberalism’s favorite anti-Christian boogeyman is the Salem witch trials. How many actually died as a result of those trials: fewer than 25.
And what of the Crusades? Most Americans probably have a negative view of the Crusades as an attempt by Christians to conquer peaceful Muslims. The opposite is true. British historian Paul Johnson has observed: “The Crusades, far from being an outrageous prototype of Western imperialism, as taught in most schools, were a mere episode in a struggle that lasted 1,400 years, and were one of the few occasions when Christians took the offensive to regain ‘occupied territories’ of the Holy Land.” The Crusades were launched to regain land conquered by Muslims and to prevent Muslim armies from invading and conquering any more nations! It was a defensive war against Muslim imperialism.
The Christian-haters should turn their attentions to militant Islam and Atheism as the most serious dangers to the world.
Militant Islam, I will certainly give you. I never understood why liberals insist on defending a religion that is more hateful in it’s language, and more close to Mein Kampf than Christianity. Nevertheless, what you are about to say about Atheism is null and void.
The fact is that while religious wars have been fought for centuries, militant atheism has slaughtered more people than religious zealots ever have. The greatest mass murders in history have been committed not by Christians but by Communists Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung. More than 100 million have died at the hands of these militant atheists since the early 20th century.
So, logically, instead of being concerned about something that has continuously feuled murderes throughout history, we should worry about one single instance in which some bad thing should happen. And instead of acknolwedging the ethical aspects behind these mass murders, altruism and socialism, we’ll acknowledge the metaphysical mindset behind the murders. Okay.
The fact is that Christians have been at the forefront of expanding and defending human freedom around the globe ever since the First Century Church was founded. Christians, for example, were the ones who campaigned against the gladiator games in ancient Rome as well as against the slave trade in Britain and in the United States. It has been our Christian compassion that has led us into wars around the world to defend the downtrodden and to preserve freedom for individuals. (Alvin J. Schmidt, Ph.D., clearly explains this in his excellent history book, “How Christianity Changed The World.”)
We’ll ignore the several people who are advocating for individual liberties as well, such as Ayn Rand. Might I also add that Ayn Rand, an atheist, was the first person to come up with a way of actually acheiving laissez faire capitalism (Real capitalism, not religiously-butchered capitalism). Whenever a christian has an idea for capitalism, there is always a glaring achilles-heel that can not be ignored:
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State-rights: Another form of mixed capitalism, founded on the idea that government gets to keep it’s power while individuals get to keep their freedom. You can’t have both. To have a free society, government must be controlled.
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A desire to sacrifice political freedom: Contractual freedom should be maximized… unless a man and another man decide to do it and call it a marital contract. People should be free to do whatever they want… unless they want to prostitute themselves, do drugs. A potential human being is more important than an actual human being.
Elton John’s ability to speak freely and attack Christianity in Britain is due to the fact that Britain has based its laws upon the Ten Commandments and Christian principles about free speech and freedom of conscience.
Huh? What.
John might not fare so well under Sharia law nor would his music be freely marketed under a Communist dictatorship.
Again, you are making the assumption that communism’s flaw was it’s metaphysics, not it’s ethics.
http://www.americanvision.org/article/adam…ers-of-atheism/
I found another very interesting article, that actually says that science and reason are bad things by themselves. I’ll get to this later.
