Over at “The Friendly Atheist” there’s a dude who writes an advice column for godless people.
I took a whack at writing an atheist advice column awhile back.
The experience was super-easy and totally unfulfilling.
Every bit of atheist wisdom is succinctly expressed like this:
It doesn’t matter. You’ll be dead soon.
Of late, Richard hasn’t needed to dispense his useless advice so he’s written a useless article about feeding homeless people.
You can follow the link and read the heartwarming tale in full.
The atheists partnered with some local church groups to hand out lasagna to the homeless.
According to Richard, the churches were:
“…surprised but they seemed genuinely pleased that an atheist group wanted to help…”
Imagine that.
Superstitious “faith-heads” working should-to-shoulder with their intellectual superiors.
Most of the story will be familiar to you if you’ve spent time around Christian people.
Then Richard wrote this:
“A young staff psychotherapist there told me that he’s very happy to see an atheist group volunteering because he would like to see a broader variety of groups helping than just church groups. He also mentioned that he objects to the widespread assumption he’s heard that atheists have no morals or compassion.”
*sigh*
This is atheist propaganda.
It is something that cry-babies say to avoid thinking about difficult things.
There is NO “widespread assumption that atheists have no morals”.
However…
…there IS a widespread assumption among atheists that God is not necessary for morality.
Richard embraces this assumption when he writes:
“[There are] two reasons for atheists to do more things like this. The main reason is simply that the need is there, and we want to help…”
Why does Richard want to help?
Seriously.
He’s the same guy who said this to a young Christian as they gazed at the stars together:
So the problem is not that atheists don’t have morals.
The problem is that atheists can’t explain why they have morals.
Richard finally admits the real reason for the lasagna party:
“The smaller (but still valid) reason is that we live in a society where atheists are constantly slandered by ignorant and hateful bigots, and unless we visibly contradict that slander, the ignorance and hatred will continue.”
He has partnered with church people to combat the slander, hatred, and bigotry of church people.
There is no purpose, justice, or love built into the universe…but it’s bad to be hateful.
Understand?
This is the guy the heathen turn to for counsel.
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“He has partnered with church people to combat the slander, hatred, and bigotry of church people.”
“There is no purpose, justice, or love built into the universe…but it’s bad to be hateful.”
Add from last week: there is no afterlife but here’s to you, Steven Hawking, enjoy the stars now that you’re dead!
Frankly, my head begins to hurt when I try to find a rational thought from these people. I feel like I just looked through some extremely near-sighted guy’s glasses. Oh, the brain strain! I think I’ll go watch a cat video and clear my head.
“A local organization called Bridge To Home provides meals, medical, psychological, and case management resource services year-round, and provides shelter beds for 60 people during the coldest winter months. They rely heavily on private groups, mostly churches, to provide dinners.” What do you know it’s mostly churches not atheist groups. Benevolence has always been a strength of the church but why would an atheist be benevolent if they believe what they say they believe. Maybe atheist groups are as hypocritical as churches are said to be. At least we acknowledge it.
Very funny, because our pastor just spoke about feeding the least of these. Than I come home and read this! Ha! So his very point was that feeding people,visiting those in prison, caring for the sick, was not like a check list we can just tick off to prove how good we are. Instead, we do these things almost unaware, simply because they are an innate part of knowing Whose we are.
“Awe and wonder are built into us.” By whom? Or how then is it built into you?
“These things in the sky aren’t intrinsically awesome and wondrous by themselves; we are wired to react that way.” Who wired you?
Good questions, Susanne.
Luckily, Atheists are unencumbered by the weight of contradictory thought. They just speak in the moment with no regard for the past.
Your blog continually scratches that OCD itch in me that likes to straighten a skewed tablecloth or a crooked picture frame. When you find an inconsistency, you point it out, and right it. My OCD thanks you.
The atheist response will probably be, “Are you saying we can’t hang pictures correctly?”
No, they’d say there’s no such thing as pictures, and can you provide adequate evidence for the existence of the tablecloth?