We now continue, from part 1, part 2and part 3, considering American Atheists’ Al Stefanelli’s article Christian Fundamentalists: Deeply Disturbed Psychotic Sociopaths wherein we learn some interesting information such as that one thing that “True Christians” do is, for example, commit murder.
Incidentally, he referenced the murder of physicians who provide abortion services in both articles but, of course, does not provide any statistics. Just how many such “physicians” have been murdered? Well, for all the press it gets it must be hundreds if not thousands, but just how many?
Richard Dawkins likewise played the game of making a fuss without providing stats, see:
George Tiller, Abortionist Murders, and the Richard Dawkins Correlation
In short, a grand total of eight abortion “doctors” were murdered, in a span of time covering over 30 years, in separate incidents, in both the USA and Canada combined.
His second reason for referring to “True Christians” as murderers, etc. is likewise astonishingly fallacious:
…by virtue of the some forty thousand different denominations that exist in the world, reality demands it be a hard-pressed defense to say they are not “True Christians.”
Amazing! Some denominations baptize by sprinkling, some by dunking. Some “Amen!” the preacher’s every word, some remain silent. Some sing accapella, some use electrical instruments. And, apparently, some condone, encourage and commit murder. Well, you learn something every other day.
He then comes to 100% agreement with the Bible in stating:
I have maintained throughout my career as an activist that the concept of faith can, and often does, have a positive effect on an individual. Religion, however, remains the problem because much of it is ambiguous, enigmatic and left too widely open for interpretations that adversely and detrimentally affect the lives of nearly everyone on the planet.
Amen! The only positive reference to “religion” in the Bible is as follows:
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world (James 1:27)
For more info on this see:
The Most Anti-Religion Book Ever Published
In order to buttress this Biblically agreeable statement, Al Stefanelli quotes Christopher Hitchens:
Organised religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.
Of course, organised anything, including atheism, is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children. Keep in mind what was referenced in this series of articles: as per The Encyclopedia of Wars, out of 10,000 years of wars, less than 7% were “religious wars” (and half of the less than 7% involved Islam).
He also states:
Even an Atheist cannot deny that there is something larger than ourselves; except for us it is not in the form of gods, but the whole of humanity.
Well, certainly, no worldview relies on “faith” more than atheism. And this is “faith” as mis-defined via popular atheist talking points de jour: as belief without evidence. But, did you notice the dogmatheistic statement? Who made him the Atheos-Pope to declare that which holds true for all atheists, the “us” for whom the larger thing is the whole of humanity? It may very well be, what else is there, but how is he to speak for all?
Now, do not miss the utter importance of this: he is claiming that atheists replace God with humanity. This is why he can only appeal, as he does, to society’s majority view, the laws, to buttress his impotent condemnations—there is nothing beyond personal opinion. Thus, if he can spread the meme of his personal opinion then more personal opinions will match his, a majority can form and that majority’s view can seek to survive as the fittest meme—The Lathe of Earth.