While I could school this stupid Huffpo reject with that argument, I’ll make another one instead. No man or country has ever been without a religion. It is impossible. It’s like saying you don’t have a lungs or a heart. This Devin Patrick Kelley character was just a proselytizer of the worst kind. Having been convinced of his own superiority he decided to massacre a vulnerable group of Christians.
Like nearly every atheist, he thought that Christians and our culture impede progress. He thought that we were the chronic persecutors of innocent and marginalized groups. I’m sure that he, like nearly all atheists, had an ideal model for The Perfect State. A Star Trek like utopia could be realized if we troglodytes could just accept that God doesn’t exist. Therein lies his religion, his motivation for punishing that unfortunate congregation, and the God of his own creation.
Atheists, I’m not saying that Christians are better than you. I’m just saying that I’m not impressed by you. I have gone full circle, myself. I bought into the nonsense of Nietzshe as well as other Modernist Philosophers and drew out my own model of a socialist Tower of Babel when I was a teenager. Intellectuals of this vein have never built a sustainable society based on their newly discovered values, let alone a just one. Devin Kelley had the same mentality as Stalin and Mao. How could you say they don’t have that in common? Their total kill count is about 20 million Christians.
While these Secular Extremists can’t seem to graduate past the theoretical stage of building a decent society and multi-millenia culture, Christians have thrived for two-thousand years. In fact, these two-years of Pax-Christianitatis have been more productive than the other 148,000 years of human existence.
Secular Fundamentalists criticize christianity for not being absolutely perfect, but the evidence is pretty substantial that we couldn’t have had a modern world without the intellectual tradition of, as the Muslims call us, “the people of the book”. Western Culture has surpassed all others in establishing sciences and law, and historians are now coming to realize that they couldn’t have existed without the nurturing and protection of the Clergy. Christianity has united classes and races better than anything the Secular Liberals can invent, yet they spread myths about it.
If you believe the world would be a better place without Christianity and the teachings of Jesus Christ, I hope you are discouraged by what I said. If you still think that Christians stand in the way of a better society, all I can say is that the deacon and I are both armed. If you accept the truth I speak here and insist on remaining an atheist, I’m not going to hold it against you. Just stop turning a blind eye to the global persecution.