Devil's advocate, pun intended, but I don't see how that's the core issue. Science is also supposed to be secular, and yet with leftism dominating academia, here we have leftists using "female" to describe a man. Leftist dehumanization campaigns against political opponents allow them to justify not sticking to their alleged principles. The problem is that weak and/or malicious leftists in charge put politics ahead of principles in whatever form those principles take. As a result, they engage us and other dissidents with hypocrisy, a lack of fairness, contempt, and complete insincerity. Religious people can behave that way too -- look at the pope.
I think that what we're seeing is that it turns out it's not as easy to create an irreligious society as Dawkins may have hoped. In fact, it may even be impossible. You root out the trappings of religion, and something else that doesn't call itself a religion takes its place... but it turns out the new thing sure behaves a lot like a religion, and now it's what's shaping your society's mores. Christianity, whether you believe in it or not, mostly produced a reasonable, well-ordered society. Leftism... not so much.
Religion represents the formalization of our interactions with the world which is larger than us. Science was developed as a tool to further that relationship, yet has been hijacked by (p)rofessionals to be abused as a source of power. They deceived themselves into believing that it was actually possible to "fool" the whole world because it just took a few generations until the consequences of deriving power from such pure hearted work manifested in their eyes with nuclear weapons.
No God, no objective morality. No objective morality and we're left with things our group likes and things our group doesn't like. As groups fragment, we're eventually left with individuals determining what's right for themselves, and the utter collapse of civilization.
If you truly understood how incredibly depraved a universe without God would be, you would do everything in your power to convince people that God existed just so that you could eke out a tolerable life before the heat death of the universe inevitably destroyed all traces of your existence. Luckily, you live in an ordered universe where good and evil exist and there are both physical and spiritual repercussions for violating said order.
If you truly believe there is no God, stop worrying about the fate of your nation. It doesn't matter in the end anyway. Instead, embrace your loved ones before they cease to exist. Enjoy what little pleasure you can before you succumb to the void. Or don't, I guess. Once you expire and the universe eventually resets itself, it will be as if you never existed in the first place anyway.
How's that uprooted atheist society working out for you Mr. Dawkins?
/Do the church bells still ring?
Devil's advocate, pun intended, but I don't see how that's the core issue. Science is also supposed to be secular, and yet with leftism dominating academia, here we have leftists using "female" to describe a man. Leftist dehumanization campaigns against political opponents allow them to justify not sticking to their alleged principles. The problem is that weak and/or malicious leftists in charge put politics ahead of principles in whatever form those principles take. As a result, they engage us and other dissidents with hypocrisy, a lack of fairness, contempt, and complete insincerity. Religious people can behave that way too -- look at the pope.
I think that what we're seeing is that it turns out it's not as easy to create an irreligious society as Dawkins may have hoped. In fact, it may even be impossible. You root out the trappings of religion, and something else that doesn't call itself a religion takes its place... but it turns out the new thing sure behaves a lot like a religion, and now it's what's shaping your society's mores. Christianity, whether you believe in it or not, mostly produced a reasonable, well-ordered society. Leftism... not so much.
Religion represents the formalization of our interactions with the world which is larger than us. Science was developed as a tool to further that relationship, yet has been hijacked by (p)rofessionals to be abused as a source of power. They deceived themselves into believing that it was actually possible to "fool" the whole world because it just took a few generations until the consequences of deriving power from such pure hearted work manifested in their eyes with nuclear weapons.
No God, no objective morality. No objective morality and we're left with things our group likes and things our group doesn't like. As groups fragment, we're eventually left with individuals determining what's right for themselves, and the utter collapse of civilization.
If you truly understood how incredibly depraved a universe without God would be, you would do everything in your power to convince people that God existed just so that you could eke out a tolerable life before the heat death of the universe inevitably destroyed all traces of your existence. Luckily, you live in an ordered universe where good and evil exist and there are both physical and spiritual repercussions for violating said order.
If you truly believe there is no God, stop worrying about the fate of your nation. It doesn't matter in the end anyway. Instead, embrace your loved ones before they cease to exist. Enjoy what little pleasure you can before you succumb to the void. Or don't, I guess. Once you expire and the universe eventually resets itself, it will be as if you never existed in the first place anyway.
Serious question: Why emphasize the P in professionals? I don't get it.