Since atheist on other platforms just can’t handle it when a free-thinking individual doesn’t defend religion, but also refuses to accept their bullshit too.
In many respects, atheism is
akin to racism. It’s the arrogant belief that the sum product of human endeavor
is a delusion. It bold face says that our ancestors were sub-human,
unintelligent, and unable to determine hallucination from experience. It is the
worship of science plain and simple. It tries to convince us that our
technological society is the only way to be human. It makes capitalism the only
game in town, as even our experiences can be created, bought, and sold since
nothing about us is unique. Like the horrible faith mongers of the radically
religious it is based on fear. Fear that other peoples and other cultures might
actually have something to say that is worthy of our attention. Atheism is for
those who fear the fact our universe is something larger and stranger than they
will ever comprehend.
“We have this extraordinary conceit
in the West that while we’ve been hard at work in the creation of technological
wizardry and innovation, somehow the other cultures of the world have been
intellectually idle. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nor is this
difference due to some sort of inherent Western superiority. We now know to be
true biologically what we’ve always dreamed to be true philosophically, and
that is that we are all brothers and sisters. We are all, by definition, cut
from the same genetic cloth. That means every single human society and culture,
by definition, shares the same raw mental activity, the same intellectual
capacity. And whether that raw genius is placed in service of technological
wizardry or unraveling the complex thread of memory inherent in a myth is
simply a matter of choice and cultural orientation.”
–
Wade Davis