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Atheism: An Intellectual Revolt or Pelvic Rebellion?
By Doug Giles
Atheists would love for everyone to believe that their motive for not believing is an intellectual one. Yes, the atheists ardently suppose that they are wise and the Christians, well,
we're the buckle-shoed buttheads.
Yes, darling, the atheists would love all of us to suppose that they cannot believe because they are so astute and rational, and we theists, heck
we're toads . . . a veritable troop of abecedarian simpletons who believe in God and Christ simply because
we're straight goofy.
| I think the atheists believe in not believing, however, not because
they're intellectual little dandies but because they want to be autonomous, loose and randy.
As Dinesh
D'Souza said about the atheist's faith in no faith in his new book
What's So Great About Christianity: "Atheism is not primarily an intellectual revolt,
it's a moral one." God, that's got to hurt you guys because you pride yourself on being so wise . . . so sophisticated . . . and here he/we are saying that your atheism rises out of hedonism instead of intellectualism. Ouch. Need a
bandaid?
Look, I'm not buying that the
atheists' altruistic self-professed pursuit of reason is what undergirds their conclusion that God does not exist; I believe
it's because they want to believe that
they'll never be called into eternal accountability for their temporal actions by a holy God. Talk about an opiate for the masses! |
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But to heck with what I think, eh?
I'm just a hayseed, cross-eyed Christian with an IQ of 50 who believes in Jesus, loves his mama, salutes the flag and collects guns.
I'm an idiot. Let's go to the atheists and hear it from the
horse's mouth—or backside (411 taken from D'Souza's book,
What's So Great About Christianity):
- Biologist Stephen Jay Gould:
"We may yearn for a higher answer—but none exists. This explanation, though superficially troubling if not terrifying, is ultimately liberating and
exhilarating."
- Biologist Julian Huxley, the grandson of
Darwin's buddy and ally Thomas Henry Huxley, put it this way:
"The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is
enormous."
- Julian's brother Aldous Huxley, not to be outdone by his bro, stated,
"I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently I assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption . . . For myself as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation . . . liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual
freedom."
- Bertrand Russell:
"The worst feature of the Christian religion is its attitude toward
sex."
- Christopher
Hitchens: "The divorce between the sexual life and fear . . . can now at last be attempted on the sole condition that we banish all religions from the
discourse."
Sounds like these atheist apostles are simply putting a nuevo twist on an ancient bent. They appear to be humming the Marquis de
Sade's tune more than Sagan's. Looks and sounds like a moral revolt to me. Yes, this is Epicurus all over again.
You remember Epi,
don't cha? His whole goal was to "get rid of the
gods." He and his other pre-Socratic "thinkers" like Lucretius and Democritus
didn't like all that duty and responsibility to higher powers and fellow mortals crap. It put a hitch in their get along. It brought them pain and they liked pleasure. They believed that such an obligation to men and the gods caused too much anxiety. They
didn't like the thought of being responsible and having to account for their lives in the afterlife. Such thoughts really screwed with getting their groove on, ya know what
I'm sayin'?
They were the first metrosexuals. Yep, they figured that if they could just get the gods out of the way they could focus on selfishly milking this life for all
it's worth and then die without any eternal repercussions. They were living in a material world, and they were material girls. Pretty ballsy. Or stupid. But at least they were honest about their motivations.
In addition, ladies, Darwin
didn't lose his faith because he discovered natural selection; he dumped God because he
couldn't stomach the doctrine of eternal accountability and damnation.
That's what made him switch teams. I think that was about ten years after he had married his first cousin.
Git-R-Done, Charlie!
Y'know, Karl Marx said religion is the
"opiate of the masses." I think the real poppy derivative is the black tar belief that tells you atheist lads and lasses that when you take the big dirt nap
that's it. Ah what peace. What a high. No God. No accountability. All our sins of commission and omission will never ever come up again. No pain. No penalty. No heaven. No hell. Imagine. Yeah, dude. Hold that hit. Let it out slowly. Ahhh. Feel better?
There's your opium.
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