(12-19-2015 11:53 AM)Wutang Wrote: (12-18-2015 08:35 AM)H1N1 Wrote: (12-18-2015 08:24 AM)sixsix Wrote: I just figured we needed a secular narrative. But that's not going to convince the masses. And the fear of God and the reward of an afterlife are such strong motivators that any secular reasons are just not going to cut it. If one side wants to fight for the death and the other does not, you know which side has the edge.
The view I've come to is that a secular narrative will never suffice, as it is at its core, a fundamental belief in nothing.
Atheism is a purely negative doctrine. Before all you Dawkinists reading this get butt-hurt over that sentence I want to clarify that when I say negative I don't mean "bad" but rather that atheism is merely a negation and has no actual content on it's own. I've seen many religion debates over the years and a common thread that always gets brought up is the people who are defending religion will bring up Stalin, Mao, and other modern age dictators as an example of atheists just being as capable of mass terror and destruction while the people who are against religion will bring up that none of these dictators did what they did in the name of atheism. I would agree with that. I would also say that people in general aren't going to do ANYTHING in the name of atheism - whether for good or bad since as I said before it is a negative doctrine that doesn't stand for anything except not believing in any sort of gods. It posits nothing and stands for nothing and hence can't motivate anyone to do anything based on it. In that video I posted of the rally in Poland you saw the crowd shouting "Great Catholic Poland" and other slogans. Can you imagine anyone instead shouting for "Great Atheist Albania/China/USSR" or anything like that?
I don't think it's any coincidence that it's the most atheist societies like Sweden that are taking the most damage from the migrant crisis and are the most vulnerable to leftists causes. Remove any sort of transcendental dimension (I'm not just merely referring to the afterlife when I say "transcendental I want to note) to the meaning of life and what do you get? A bunch of YOLOers who thinks the most pressing moral issues in the world are Caitlyn Jenner and patting the head of the pet minority group at the moment and at the moment looks like the pet minority group are Muslims. These are people who rely on Carl Sagan and Neil Degrasse Tyson and similar thinkers for their pseudo-metaphysical/spiritual views - and indeed I think the reason these two men are so influential with the secular "educated" class today outside of their personal charm and magnetism is because they have managed to cast their scientism-based world view in a quasi-religious light and are providing for the spiritual needs of these people, the needs which still remain despite their degeneration of spiritual matters.
The great irony is these people who confine their focus solely on the temporal physical world and look at any notion of a further world with disdain are losing the temporal physical world to those who believe that there are worlds besides this one. The Muslims seem to have more of a will to survive and spread their culture across this physical world and are inheriting it from their secular hosts who are glad to give it up to them.
I think the answer to this is very simple yet most people hate the Truth.
The modern world we live in today, including the
modern White race, is a product of Christianity. It has served as the bedrock of society and virtually all of our history has been carried down through the Churches to the modern day.
If suddenly this bedrock is taken away, then why is it a surprise that the civilization once supported by this bedrock crumbles?
I see a lot of guys who insist there is a better way than Christianity, and yet these same men:
- Know nothing or very little about the history of Christian peoples
- Could never refute arguments in favor of Christ
- Have no real solution to inventing a new faith to unite the masses
In short, the men who support the dismantling of Christianity yet claim to support Western civilization are either:
- Ignorant
- Disingenuous
- Unpractical
Usually a combination of the three.
I have read many intelligent Atheists; a great deal of them still went to Church and fully admitted that in spite of not believing they still had tremendous respect and value for the stability Christianity provides for a culture through its family, legal, and economic values.
It really wasn't until Jews started joining Western universities post-Napaleon's emancipation of Talmudic Jews did they read up on these Enlightenment Atheists, such as Rousseau, and say,
"Well if Jesus is bullshit then what do we need any of these stupid religions and churches for anyways? We obviously can do it on our own we are smart enough now!"
At first, no one gave a shit what the Talmuds believed, but post WW2 and the Holocaust guilt was enough for many more Atheist intellectuals within the university to be sympathetic to Talmudic arguments against Christianity, which has since led us into the spiritual death of Europe and it's subsequent invasion.
Honest atheists (and agonistics), for most of Western Civilization, have never been anti-Christianity because the vast majority of atheists have been able to appreciate what the religion gave to their culture. Especially in regards to women. Alexis de Tocqueville, an agnostic himself (I believe), wrote huge praise for American women and their Christian virtues back in the 1830's. My how the times have changed.
The current day atheists and agnostics who are anti-Christian like to believe they are edgy and intelligent, but in reality they are just puppets of Talmudic Jewish arguments against Christ (who themselves hold the same grudge against Christ as they did when they freed Barbaras).
I believe the supposed "intelligent" community of atheists and agnostics needs to clean their act up and get their arguments in order. Anyone who claims to support Western Civ yet hates Christianity is a fool at best, and traitor at worst.