Last week there was parade of atheists in Washington. Whatever compels these folks to parade their disbelief in God is certainly an enigma.
But, for my poor understanding, a childish belief in a magical creator who intervenes at our beck and call is the flip side of the coin to the equally childish belief that humanity is somehow the result of a complex yet random process of dead particles bumping together.
The second so-called law of thermodynamics is a foolish hoax. If it were truly a law, you yourself, dear reader, would not be able to read this.
Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the earth from the shadows cast by the sun. Today, humanity's fitness to survive will be measured by our ability to conquer that same thermonuclear fusion that casts those shadows. Thus, Prometheus will truly be unbound.
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Birds of a Feather: Atheists and Fundamentalists
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Poe once wrote, "Your reformist demigods are merely devils turned inside out." I suppose one could say atheists--the more militant and vocal ones, at any rate--are fundamentalist Christians turned inside out.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most mournful things I can imagine to myself is the loss to humanity of immeasurable artistic treasure in that lunatic Savonarola's bonfire of the vanities.
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