This could be seen as arrogant. But the arrogance belongs to those who “believe” in god — or whatever superior thingy in the sky somewhere, claiming that we are the “children of god”. poo…

I have tackled this subject many times on this site and have been overdoing somewhat. I am a rabid atheist and will not be an apologetic for this scientific position.

So, when Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” recently talked to Frank Turek author of “I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” about the collapse of the New Atheist movement, we have to take this with ten tons of salt.

They even have the gall to claim that Richard Dawkins admits that religion may be necessary for a flourishing society and that the failure of atheism in providing a sense of purpose and meaning. BULLSHIT. 

I understand that Dawkins would make this comment with a caveat: the caveat being that this “flourishing society” would be dumbest one in the universe — possibly equivalent to an ant’s nest — not asking questions. My apologies to ants.

Haha, and here comes the crunch: “what prominent atheists like Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris overlooked [is] how only religions like Christianity and Judaism can protect a society from the worst elements of radical Islam…” 

Now we know the “true” usefulness of Christianity… As if atheism could not combat “radical Islam”… Atheism can do a far better job than Christianity: fighting religions-fire by pouring religious-petrol over it is stupid and aggressively useless.

So Turek and Rubin bring out the usual barrow of sloppy religionism to discuss the spreading of social justice and woke culture in America’s churches…

They make the usual bad case for “intelligent design” to absorb the scientific reality of evolution… Yes our ancestors were ape-like and fell from trees like bad apples… 

How morality always ends up being legislated? Yikes!… Morality no. Ethics and natural laws of individual evolution AND PROTECTIVE STATUS from birth to death. We care because we are humans who understand, not because we are the “children of godot”.

Mentioning Jordan Peterson’s utilitarian view of religion is the last straw. Peterson is no philosophical guru. He is at best confused and at worse totally wrong.

All this discussion by Rubin and Turk proves is that, as a group, we are immature and stupid. And this is why we accept the deceit of an old decrepit stupid DANGEROUS monkey called Joe Biden… 

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According to research of Febvre, there did not exist a single atheist in 16th century Europe (Febvre 1946). The first atheists appeared in France, intellectuals who were influenced by the philosophy of Descartes (Buckley 1990). A clandestine literature came into being in the end of the 17th century and moreover in the beginnings of the 18th century in France, where a small number of authors formulated atheistic ideas for the first time in history. Denis Diderot and Paul d´Holbach were the two most important atheistic authors during the 18th century.

Agnosticism and atheism spread from these origins in circles of scientists and intellectuals in the Western world to become a social movement during the 19th century. 41% of the leading scientists in the US were atheists already in 1916 (James Leuba), 93% of the members of the American Academy of Sciences were atheists in 1998 (Dawkins 2006; Oesterdiekhoff 2013a: 239). Roughly half of the Europeans or Japanese currently don´t believe any more in god and immortality of the soul, while 90% of people living in the developing countries are still religious (Bruce 2002).

A society, divided in believers, agnostics, and atheists, reveals a much weaker religiousness, in comparison to a society with 100% believers. Thus, religiousness in tribal societies is much stronger than in any kind of modern society. Further, atheism among the members of the American Academy of Sciences is deeper rooted than among the half of the peoples of England, Scandinivia, and Japan that is said to be atheistic today. Obviously, a psychological evolution has taken place, starting in the heads of a few intellectuals some 300 years ago, conquering now the most advanced nations and later on the whole world. There are estimations according to them there exist now some hundred millions of non-believers throughout the world (Oesterdiekhoff 2013a: 235-240, 2009a, b, c, 2015).

How can we explain the total absence of agnosticism and atheism in the premodern world and their emergence and spread since 1700? How can we explain religiousness and atheism basing on one striking theory?

Ludwig Feuerbach (1985) in 1841 explained religion as the childish nature of the humankind, manifesting the psyche of humans staying on childlike psychological stages. According to Feuerbach, the risen intelligence and grown maturity of humans might explain the emergence of atheism during the age of Enlightenment. He discriminated the “emotional man” of the premodern world from the “rational man” of the modern world as the fulcrum of the development of religion, science, and culture. He excellently demonstrated how single religious ideas and practices root in childlike mental characteristics.

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