Some time ago, an article was published to report that Atheism Groups Grow on College Campuses. Let us consider some of the key issues:
The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: “Ask an Atheist.”
Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression…Bodnar is the happy face of atheism at Iowa State University…Bodnar, president of the ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society [which consisted of some 30 members at the time]. “People assume we’re rabble-rousing, when we’re one of the gentlest groups on campus.”
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Sadly, the report does not state what is being asked of the atheists. The reference to “waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression…the happy face of atheism” is very, very noteworthy. This is because, as has been chronicled in the past (see Atheism’s Public Relations Problems) many atheist groups put for a waving, smiling, good impression happy fact as a PR façade for their anti-Christian support groups. In the last segments of this series we will specifically consider whether the ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society are the sort who play the PR game or not.
Also noteworthy is a typical atheist move: taking moral stances without having a moral premise upon which to take the stance (except when they plagiaristically borrow from Judeo-Christian morality). For some reason some concern is expressed in being viewed as being gentle, but why?
…campus atheists and agnostics are coming out of the closet, fueling a sharp rise in the number of clubs…providing the atheist movement new training grounds for future leaders…at least three universities, including Harvard, now have humanist chaplains meeting the needs of the not-so-spiritual…As teenagers move into young adulthood, some leave God behind…
Lyz Liddell, senior campus organizer for the Columbus, Ohio-based group.
“College students can be a little more susceptible to the more reactionary anti-religion voices, partly because it’s so new to them.”
The last sentence gets close to the reason why atheism groups grow on college campuses. In the incomparable words of Vox Day, who was referencing Richard Dawkins’ Out Campaign, a conversion crusade by any other name,
It’s like the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, only sillier.
The issue is that rebellion loves company. One reason that atheists are so active on college campus is that, in essence, they act like a styled version of temple prostitutes. Temple prostitutes (who are alive and well within certain witchcraft / magik groups) entice unbelievers via sexual enticements as their worship systems include sexual practices. The youth are naturally rebellious, saturated with raging hormones, have just been freed of mommy’s apron strings (but not her purse) and are thrown into co-ed circumstances.
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Along come the atheists who encourage the confusion between rebelling against religion with rebelling against God. They then deny any such thing as traditional ethics / morals and the rest is pop-cultural history (enter STDs, single teen moms, emotional damage from being treated as a sexual object de jour, children living out of a suitcase as they are shuffled between feuding un-married parents, etc., etc., etc.).
Why do you think that atheist make besmirching Christian values a large portion of their atheistic worldviews (even whilst borrowing from Christian values in a plagiaristic manner)? Keep in mind that two of atheism’s consoling delusions are absolute autonomy and that which follows from it, lack of ultimate accountability.
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