Here is an irony about atheism: Atheists are self-deluded polytheists. ... In denying the existence of God, the atheist is saying wittingly or unwittingly that he is his own god. Since the atheist is his own god only those that have authority over him have nominal control of their life. ... Science is a deity because science is the knowledge fount for human understanding. ... [Thus] dogmatic/militant atheism has a stringent belief system that can easily be quantified as a set of religious values that denies the existence of a supernatural existence which for Christians would be God Almighty that is all and in all.
[T]he superstition that the budget must be balanced at all times, once it is debunked, takes away one of the bulwarks that every society must have against expenditure out of control. . . . [O]ne of the functions of old-fashioned religion was to scare people by sometimes what might be regarded as myths into behaving in a way that long-run civilized life requires.
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
The Stupid! It Burns! (deluded polytheist edition)
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Yes, it is very stupid and not really worth commenting on since I would be preaching to the choir. You already know the author mistakes a-theists for anti-theists and draws several conclusions that don't follow either way.
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