roachboy

meta-question:

what's with all these atheism threads all of a sudden?
it's like atheism has become the center of some collective neurosis that plays out as compulsive repetition...

in particular, this ludicrous equation of belief in some god-character with moralty or ethics is only coherent from within a particular frame of reference and says nothing outside of it---so where is the interest in repeating it as if it posed some interesting problem more generally? i dont get it.

i suspect this has something to do with the collapse of populist conservatism as a political bloc in the states and represents an index of some kind of panic within the fundamentalist protestant ranks about this, as if the collapse of their particular political reach leaves nothing by atheism in its wake, as if these folk actually do what they like to pretend they do, which is to hold a monopoly not only on christianity but on morality in general.

but if this is the case, then in these threads we are being asked to respond to the narcsissm of the fundamentalist/evangelical protestant set as if it was something other than the narcissism of the fundamentalist/evangelical protestant set.

at what point was this sort of question ceded to these folk?
was there some conference call that happened that i was not told about?

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