The Freeloading Atheism of Richard Dawkins and Republicans
A parasitic atheism is taking root, promising what it can never deliver.
When I was a teenager, notorious and proud atheist Richard Dawkins was funding a massive ad campaign on buses through the city. The text of the advertisement was, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
It seemed to cause him personal distress when someone proclaimed to have the Faith. With pomposity and condescension, he acted as if he were doing his duty to rid the lower classes of their ignorant, antiquated beliefs. After all, those beliefs were holding them and society back. That too is the message of his buses. It was the assertion that people would live better and in some way freer if they were not bound by the restrictions placed on them by Christianity.
Now, a decade later, the same man said that he wants to live in a Christian culture. That is to say, he wants to live in a culture in which people act like they believe, but actually don’t. He has come to recognize the benefits thereof.
“I do think we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian… I’m not a believer, but there is a distinction between being a believing Christian and a cultural Christian. I love hymns and Christmas carols and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos, and I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense.”
I think that a lot of people feel as he does. They want the value system of the Faith and the civilization that it built, but not the personal responsibility or the actual worship of God. It’s nostalgic, comfortable, and considerably fewer people get beheaded than with other religious systems. Nevertheless, I don’t think what they seek is attainable, even if it were desirable.
Christian morality does not make sense within an atheistic worldview—for if there is no God, then there is no good. There is no standard by which we might discern good from evil. Therefore, any attempt to create an atheistic moral system will necessarily slip measurably with the perceived needs of the age. The collective desires of the masses will influence what is considered to be right and acceptable. There is neither anchor nor rudder.
In fact, that’s exactly what we have already. We live amongst the ruins of a Christian culture, in which the old pillars are gradually being replaced by those perceived to be more relevant to modern man, more ‘moral’ by an undefined standard. Consequently, these efforts are moving us further away from truth, justice, and goodness, because without God, objective realities become relativistic notions, redefinable and ambiguous.
Republican circles are permeated with this well-intentioned fallacy about “Christian values”, promoted by non-Christians, and that’s how we got half the Republican movement celebrating the purchase of children by gay men, as happened with Dave Rubin. Christian values become stretched, warped even, into something like “values we think are good.” That’s not how you build a culture, it’s how you destroy one. Christian values aren’t Christian without Christ, and there can be no Christian culture without Him either.
Since a boy, I loathed Dawkins. He was smug for no good reason and I knew somewhere deep in his black heart he had been hurt bad, so bad that he would spend his entire miserable life trying to convince people they were their own god.
Richard Dawkins is far worse than an atheist, he's a transhumanist. He has seen the tide turning in Europe, and the result of the first major attempt to change western civilization into his fantasy eugenics utopia has gone sideways. He, and the people like him probably felt a tremor of massive resistance. However, he will change his tune when he feels the slightest weakness and immediately resume complaining and mocking religion when it becomes fashionable again.
Their compass will move with their square east to west, while they still hope to chart their course. His savior will only ever be his technology, his A.I. god, or himself, and that savior annihilates humanity down to the DNA. Dawkins and his people would have us all eating genetically engineered insects, quadruple vaccines three times a week until we barely look human. He would have us all connected to Neuralink. He would have us bow down to the priests in white coats, whom we would look to for all salvation. He and his kind at the top of the pyramid, while we, the lowly peasants take our genetic place at the bottom to serve the Chosen who have pledged their allegiance to the alteration and ownership of all life by these masters of 'the great reset.'
They will steer the Church if need be, through people like Pope Francis, towards the unimaginable disintegration of tradition and all that is old, all that represents the world that came before, attempting to delete every conceivable vestige of anything that could lead people back to a God that created all life.
Dawkins is clearly taking a baby step backward here... after likely seeing the effects of this new world order chaos wrought by Klaus, Fauci, Macron, Zelinsky, Gates, and others, and as they see, the compass is moving again. His faith is in A.I. as it has always been, and for them, it matters not whether that A.I. surveillance state is 'left' or 'right' as long as they get it. It matters not whether it is the face of Stalin or the Pope, because once they've got it, their 'faith' is the pyramid has been constructed, and their goal will be achieved, and our fate will be sealed. All of us beneath the pyramid will be 'they/them' devoid of any attribute that reminds us of humanity. Transhuman for us is total technological slavery, for them, cybernetic power, and for them looking down on us, it eases their conscience to also no longer look at us as 'human.' They need to dehumanize us not simply to annihilate us, but so they aren't reminded of our humanity in the face of their atrocities.
We could still 'win' so long as we know, people like Dawkins will switch sides or appear to switch sides whenever they feel it's necessary to achieve their goals. Appease/Accuse. Placate/Persecute. Whichever way the wind blows. Meanwhile, the A.I. grows in power, and whatever its last and final face will be, whichever 'side' it appears to on, will be an illusion.