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Another big sell is that most atheism promotes hedonistic narcissism at its finest.\u00a0 Several of the blogs I\u2019ve read enjoy boasting that more and more, young people are abandoning their religious faith.\u00a0 That\u2019s not hard to imagine, since most atheist blogs promote their lower moral denominators as one of the benefits of an atheistic lifestyle.\u00a0 Tell young kids that if you abandon belief in God, and you can have endless amounts of video games, candy, pizza, and never do any chores or homework, and you won\u2019t have a hard time with mass conversions.<\/p>\n

Still, every now and then, you get an atheist blog post that attempts to raise the bar somewhat.\u00a0 Over at the ironically title \u2018Friendly Atheist\u2019, after days and days ridiculing religion and pining for a day when religious belief is shoved in the closet (or in the ghettos or catacombs), one of the contributors jumps on the bandwagon and does the decent thing \u2013 condemning Hustler<\/em> magazine for the flagrantly sexist attack on conservative<\/a> (and that\u2019s atheist conservative) commentator S.E. Cupp.\u00a0 Of course, like most things done by Flint, it represents the odious levels of human swill to which\u00a0a world devoid of morals can sink.\u00a0 In most cases, Left and Right, this has been condemned.\u00a0 Because it is so flagrantly sexist, even the most radical feminist of groups have condemned it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

And yet, read the comments.\u00a0 I laughed, and laughed, and laughed.\u00a0 When you teach that all life is biological, and everything else is an illusion we invent to make sense of the process of passing on our DNA, don\u2019t expect much in the realm of common decency.\u00a0 Even when the most tepid response is given from the atheist blog (\u2018come on guys, you have to admit, there is something \u2018ick\u2019 about the whole thing\u2019), the commenters will have none of it.\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 I also, because of my common sense and experience as a former agnostic and as one who sees what has and hasn\u2019t changed in the world of non-religious thought, fear it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"