A-which-theism?
PZ Myers has a short piece about the New Atheists. He makes one important observation and one dubious point.

The important: This set of atheists began with anti-Islam and broadened to anti-religion. I hadn't made the connection, but it's certainly true of Dennett and Hitchens and Dawkins.

The dubious: Myers thinks that Dennett and Dawkins and Harris have moved on to promoting the Alt-Right, which isn't nearly as big or menacing as Myers thinks it is. The Alt-Right is just a puppet created by Deepstate.

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Thinking about it, Anti-Islam is an ODD STARTING POINT for western atheists. Previous generations of famous atheists mainly popped out of Rome, and popped out for a good reason. They didn't like being fucked by priests, or (less directly) didn't like witnessing the abysmal wickedness of priests. Their atheism was a rational response to a bad personal experience.

This Gang Of Four is NOT responding to personal experience. They have never lived in Muslim territory and never known any actual Muslims. Their writing about Islam is bizarrely ignorant and bigoted. They spread all sorts of pure fictional delusional nonsense.

Why did they pick Islam as the specific theism to oppose?

I can think of two possible answers, not mutually exclusive.

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1. From a scientist's viewpoint, Islam is the most dangerous theism because it's the closest to science. Islam makes only one postulate: God created the world. Everything else follows by valid logic, plus a lot of math and geometry. Rome makes dozens of internally contradictory and just plain weird postulates, most of which are not supported by Scripture. Three gods = one god. Jesus is sometimes a god and sometimes a man. Jesus came to save the world but failed completely, therefore we must wait for him to try again. Mary is sort of a god and we worship her but we don't really worship her.** Same for saints. Purgatory. Indulgences. Virgin Birth. Infallibility. ETC.

The Gang Of Four has to prevent scientists from seeing the ELEGANCE of Islam by confabulating all sorts of complicated delusions and passing them off as true.

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2. More likely: The Gang Of Four are working for Deepstate, serving as Missionaries To Science. Deepstate had big trouble with scientists in the earlier Cold War against Russia. Scientists were familiar with Russian science and often knew Russian scientists personally. They didn't bellyfeel the urgent need to blow Russia off the planet. This time Deepstate recognized the problem and took steps to prevent it. Many engineers, especially in petroleum, worked closely with Islamic engineers and didn't bellyfeel the urgent need to eliminate Islam from the planet.

I can testify that the Missionaries were effective. I had known several Arabs and Persians in engineering circles, and knew that they were smart sophisticated moral people, not stone age perverts. In fact I recognized that their families were more functional than ours. Reading Hitchens in 2001 helped me to FORGET the plain human side of Islam. I came to believe some of the nonsense, even while reserving the contrary facts. I didn't break out of the nonsense until 2011 when I unplugged the TV.

If the Gang have moved on to promoting the Alt-Right, this would fit their existing Deepstate mission as Agents Provocateurs. Make a group look horrible so Deepstate can exterminate it without opposition.

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** Footnote: Apparently Big Pulpit's blog layout software agrees with my judgments of crazy Roman dyslogic. It's quietly rebelling in a uniquely appropriate way!



Polistra made the same point a long time ago:

Labels: Natural law = Sharia law

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