Southern Bread

Another interesting part of the article that Melinda linked to the other day was this quote from the author of the peice:

A Christian, tolerant culture like ours ends up being an incubator for all kinds of radical beliefs, because the people that formulate those beliefs are protected from having to actually live in the world that their beliefs would create. That’s one of the downsides to being so tolerant and having so much freedom. Beliefs aren’t allowed to run to their logical conclusions as they would be in a more heavy handed system. These neo-atheists can play semantic games all they want, and romanticize atheism to their heart’s content, but the fact remains: institutionalized atheism always results in oppression because that’s it’s logical conclusion. There is no room in Darwinism for benevolence. But because our society puts up with this tripe, people like Sam Harris will continue to spout it, not realizing that their freedom to speak would collapse all around them if people actually put their ideas into effect.

Greg Epstien has the freedom to call himself an atheist rabbi in this country without being challenged on it very much. But we all know that, that is the most illogical thing we’ve ever heard. Francis Scheaffer was so right in his observation that people still have to live in the world that God made no matter what foolishness they claim to believe. But in a way, our willingness to put up with the idiocy that postmodernism created has protected it’s proponents from that very thing. It’s easy to say that there are no morals when you are sitting in an ivory tower. It’s another thing to say it when you are living in Darfur, running away from the genocide squad every day.

After decades of having Darwinism crammed down our throats we’ve bought the lie that atheism is what real intellectuals believe. It’s the religious that make our lives miserable. If we all just believed that their was no God then we could get beyond superstition and get on with utopian peace and tranquility. Don’t buy it. Look at what he said: “the name-brand atheists aren’t friendly, at least not in print. But maybe being friendly isn’t their job”. He’s lifting the corner of the veil folks. Atheism isn’t friendly. It’s biligerant and power-hungry at it’s logical core. We’ve allowed this false belief to incubate for too long and now it’s giving birth to people that are truly honest about what it means. They aren’t willing to play the tolerance game. They want all other belief systems destroyed.