Yesterday, in Part One of this series, I laid out how America sees its atheists: last in trust, coldest on the thermometer, and — in Gallup’s long-running ballot test — acceptable as a presidential candidate to just 41% of Republicans, against 69% of Democrats. That gap has a question buried in it, and it’s my question, because it’s about my side of the street.
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In 2019, I wrote a piece here titled, We Need to Cancel Cancel Culture and showed (I believe) why this is bad for society in general. As a conservative, this really didn’t affect me directly, because the left, those that refer to themselves as progresive, mainly attacked others on the left that were not far enough left for them. As I’ve said before, many times, the left loves to eat their own. It’s a cannibalistic tribe. We still see it going on today, although less, as many on the left have realized that they are not the firefighters of society, but the arsonists, in this casem burning down their own house.
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I did the best I could to stay off of social media today, as well as not peruse any news today. Why? Well, in case you’ve been living in a cave, then you know it’s the anniversary of the assassination of a young conservative political operative, Charlie Kirk. I didn’t know that much about him, but for the pat year on social media and elsewhere, there’s been nothing but cry for justice. Okay, I get it. The authorities have someone in custody that is accused of the murder. Good for them. That hasn’t however, stopped the speculation over the last year about exactly what happened, and who was ultimately responsible.
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I used to be a neocon, you know a “new conservative” , from the Ronald Reagan era. I was all-in with whatever my country was doing to protect others from the dastardly deeds of their own governments. And war? Don’t mess with Uncle Sam or we’ll kick your ass. As for those that would keep trying the patience of our greatest ally in the middle east, I said, Just turn the desert into glass. Yep. Nuke ‘em. And I was a grown man saying these things, one that had spent nearly 2 years in a combat zone, coming under fire on occasion, utterly uncaring as to what happened to other people, that we invaded for no reason (Iraq). I had no feeling for the locals while in country and even less, if that’s possible, for all Arabic peoples, and later Persians. Whether Palestinian, or Iraqi, or Egyptian, I clearly held a disdain for entire peoples that had never threatened me.
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I saw something on Twitter recently that caught my attention. It’s nothing I haven’t seen before, just that seeing it again is a little surprising. It makes me wonder about atheists in general who are supposed to be smart people. Not any smarter than the general population, and in this case, maybe less smart than those same people inn the general population. What does someone’s politics have to do with being an atheist? I’ve written about this in the distant past, but seeing it brought up again just made me want to shout that outloud.
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