Atheist deification of politics
The website Marketwatch reported concerning the aftermath of the 2016 presidential race: Donald Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services.[2] See also: Secular leftists and psychogenic illness and Trump derangement syndrome
Most atheist lean to the left politically (see: Secular left and Atheism and politics).
Attorney General William Barr declared in a speech: "In any age, the so-called progressives treat politics as their religion. Their holy mission is to use the coercive power of the State to remake man and society in their own image, according to an abstract ideal of perfection. Whatever means they use are therefore justified because, by definition, they are a virtuous people pursing a deific end. They are willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end."[3]
The Religion News Service reported concerning Donald Trump and American atheists:
| “ | For the last decade, atheists, humanists and others secularists have worked hard to organize a “secular vote” that would counter the political clout of the religious right.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory dealt that movement a body blow when he garnered 81 percent of the white evangelical vote and 60 percent of the white Catholic vote. Mormons, too, voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Despite Trump’s not being a particularly religious person, his platform was seen as anti-secular in many atheist and humanist circles. He said he would appoint religiously conservative Supreme Court justices, ban Muslim immigrants, favor Christianity and repeal the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits certain tax-exempt organizations from endorsing political candidates — issues antithetical to organized atheism and humanism.[4] |
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Peter Burfeind's article Millennials Are In Election Hell Because Politics Has Become Their God published in The Federalist indicates:
| “ | According to progressive faith, the “arc of history” always bends Left. Well, history just spawned Donald Trump, and if European political trends are indicative, this is not an isolated incident. For leftists, this is akin to if Christians woke up to find Jesus’ bones had been discovered. It shattered their faith.
The freak-out is especially acute among millennials. These are the “nones” and the “spiritual but not religious” bunch we’ve heard about the past decade. Millennials, we were told, didn’t abandon faith per se—can the human spirit truly live without faith?—they simply redirected it away from “organized religion” toward other things, chief among which was politics. I wonder how that’s working out for them. As ridiculous and ubiquitous as the pathetically referenced “stages of grief” has become to explain how they feel about losing an election (!), the depth of leftist grief does magnify the essential religiosity they place on politics. Some reflection is in order.[5] |
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The website Marketwatch reported concerning the aftermath of the 2016 presidential race: Donald Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services.[6] See also: Secular leftists and psychogenic illness and Atheism and mental illness and Trump derangement syndrome
The Washington Examiner indicates:
| “ | To many, those on the extreme left appear to be more politically radical, insular, vocal and politically active than their moderate or even extremely conservative counterparts. It turns out that this is entirely correct.
In addition to a host of new studies and reports showing that liberals live in a digital bubble and have less diverse social media networks than moderates or conservatives, new data from the AEI Survey on Community and Society adds another layer to the story: Extreme liberals are notably more active on social media generally and are far more politically engaged than their moderate and even very conservative counterparts.[7] |
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See also: Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It's even worse among liberals, A new survey found Democrats live with less political diversity despite being more tolerant of it – with startling results, The Guardian, 2019
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Atheist agenda
See also: Atheist agenda and Atheist indoctrination and Evolution as a secular origins myth
The atheist agenda refers to an extensive ideology and programme, common to avowed atheists.
The atheist Dr. Gordon Stein declared:
| “ | Atheism has long ceased to be a rare and oft-ignored philosophical outlook...It has transformed itself into an active political programme with clear objectives which, though they vary from state to state, unequivocally include the elimination of state religion, religious education, and the enshrinement of scientism.[8] | ” |
Atheistic communism and the growth/maintenance of atheism in regions of the world
See also: Atheism and communism and Atheism and mass murder
According to the University of Cambridge, historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power."[9]
China, which has state atheism, has the largest atheist population in the world (see: China and atheism and Atheism and communism). Most atheists in the world appear to be East Asians (see: Asian atheism).
Genius.com states about leftist leaders:
| “ | The people who rise to positions of power in leftist movements tend to be leftists of the most power- hungry type, because power-hungry people are those who strive hardest to get into positions of power. Once the power-hungry types have captured control of the movement, there are many leftists of a gentler breed who inwardly disapprove of many of the actions of the leaders, but cannot bring themselves to oppose them. They NEED their faith in the movement, and because they cannot give up this faith they go along with the leaders. True, SOME leftists do have the guts to oppose the totalitarian tendencies that emerge, but they generally lose, because the power-hungry types are better organized, are more ruthless and Machiavellian and have taken care to build themselves a strong power base.
These phenomena appeared clearly in Russia and other countries that were taken over by leftists.[10] |
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For more information, please see: Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders and Atheism and violence
Atheism is a religion
Atheism and authoritarianism
See: Atheism and authoritarianism
Further reading
- C. J. Friedrich, The Deification of The State, The Review of Politics Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan., 1939), pp. 18-30. JSTOR.
See also
- SJW atheists
- Militant atheism
- Evangelical atheism
- Atheist activist
- History of atheism
- Atheism and public schools
- Secular right
- Western atheism, schisms and political polarization
- Totalitarianism
- Single party control
References
- ↑ Why Democrats demonizing Trump supporters destroys accurate polls, The Hill
- ↑ Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services, Marketwatch 2016
- ↑ https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-19th-annual-barbara-k-olson-memorial-lecture
- ↑ Dealt a body blow, atheists and humanists regroup by Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service, November 9, 2016
- ↑ Millennials Are In Election Hell Because Politics Has Become Their God by Peter Burfeind, The Federalist
- ↑ Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services, Marketwatch 2016
- ↑ The very liberal in America are different, Washington Examiner
- ↑ Gordon Stein, Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, 74.
- ↑ Investigating atheism: Marxism. University of Cambridge (2008). Retrieved on July 17, 2014. “The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.”
- ↑ The Danger of Leftism
