Something that’s has irked me for some time now is how many people latched onto the Atheist movement as an edgy teen but now look back on it in reverence and not shame. This seems to be a common theme in academia and is prevalent even in communities like this one. The lamentation of the “golden-age” of atheism is peak hubris. Dawkins, Hitchens, and crew were deconstructionists of the critical theory variety. Their lives were consumed by the need to disprove God and religion. However these were the shortsighted desires of pseudo-intellectuals, they accomplished nothing productive, and if anything, opened the door for the screaming children that replaced them. I don’t think Dawkins, in his wildest dreams, ever saw his fall come from his own hubris. The intellectual argument over dismantling religion somehow disproving the existence of a god is what fueled the SJWS and their own brand of hubris in the early 2000’s. BTW Dawkins, this is what happens when you remove the “tumor” of religion, you hack. As you see today, Dawkins was swallowed by the stupidity he helped bring about, the Maximilien Robespierre of the modern era, begging for trannies to not cut off his head.
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This is true. Christians did a shit job of defending their ideology from secularists, to the point where we had to wait for Jordan Fucking Peterson to make any sort of secular defense of Christian principles and their role in creating Western culture.
And this isn't a problem exclusive to Christians either. To the extent they were the dominant culture there was no pressure put upon them to have good arguments for why their principles out be followed and preserved. Much like secular leftists today have no pressure on them to justify their principles.
If you were like me growing up in this world a bit skeptical of all the tradition and ritualism in the church and wondered what its relevance was to modern life, it was very hard to get a satisfactory answer.
Well, MY experience was rather atypical. I grew up ostensibly Quaker, but I was close enough to wishy-washy moderate protestants, batshit crazy evangelicals, and ACTUAL BUGGY RIDING AMISH to understand what all the worlds looked like.
See, for me, there was never any question about the tradition. John Brown drilled his men for the Harpers Ferry raid a couple miles from my house. The honor roll for my hometown's dead for the Civil War is longer than it is for the Great War. I always knew what faith was. Quakers follow Christ's example; if you want to fight for a righteous cause, you don't call yourself Quaker and you go into it knowing that you might not actually be righteous.