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→Secular left, humor and hypocrisy
Although the secular left is known for ridiculing [[religion]] since at least the time of [[French Revolution]] (see: [[Atheism and mockery]]), the secular left is known for its humorlessness when it comes to others mocking of its ideology (See also: [[Atheism and humor]] and [[Atheism and intolerance]]).
Although the secular left is known for ridiculing [[religion]] since at least the time of [[French Revolution]] (see: [[Atheism and mockery]]), the secular left is known for its humorlessness when it comes to others mocking of its ideology (See also: [[Atheism and humor]] and [[Atheism and intolerance]]).
== Ex-atheist John C. Wright on American secular leftists ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and politics]] and [[Secular left]] and [[Decline of the secular left]]
[[File:John C Wright.jpg|thumbnail|right|175px|John C. Wright]]
The [[Ex-atheist|ex-atheist]], [[science fiction]] author and political commentator John C. Wright wrote about American [[Secular left|secular leftists]]:
{{Cquote|They were triumphant because they were and are a religion, not a political movement. In a religion, dogma is accepted on faith, by bowing to the authority of the prophets or the Church who speak God’s word. To question the faith is an act of immorality, of disloyalty, of subversion. Hence the Progressive has no need and no ability to defend his dogma: he merely condemns the questioner as a heretic, a man with bad motives...
The [[Progressivism|Progressive]] is fighting a holy war. A holy war concerns not one policy or one thing, but everything. It is a war to impose a worldview on the world. It cannot compromise.
Politics is merely one branch springing from the trunk of one’s worldview, and one’s worldview grows out of the roots of one’s religious background. Even atheists with a Christian background have their worldview so informed.
Facing holy warrior with prudential political arguments about policies and politics is bringing a knife to a gunfight.
[[Conservatism]] is insufficient, since it only addresses the political side of life. The Christian roots of conservativism alone have the strength to resist the attempt to undermine and uproot civilization.
Only a crusader can face a [[jihad]]ist.
The truce of the [[Enlightenment]], for better or worse, is over.<ref>[http://www.scifiwright.com/2017/02/the-last-crusade-rip-van-con/ The Last Crusade: Rip van Con] by John C. Wright</ref>}}
Wright wrote about secular left rioting and [[Islamic terrorism]]:
{{Cquote|The rioters and the terrorist have combined against us. Both use the same language of victimology, the same tactics of crybaby-bullies, who bludgeon girls from behind while weeping like brats that they are the wounded party. Both are utterly evil, and utterly blinded by their own self-righteousness. One is an open religion, the heresy of [[Islam|Mohammedanism]]. The other is a an [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] and [[materialism|materialistic]] variant on the old, old heresy called [[Gnosticism]], the belief that each man is his own god, and that God is a devil who must be reviled and overthrown.<ref>[http://www.scifiwright.com/2017/02/the-last-crusade-rip-van-con/ The Last Crusade: Rip van Con] by John C. Wright</ref>}}
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