{"id":89,"date":"2008-07-11T08:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/cain\/teh-great-atheist-conspiracy\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T08:20:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:20:41","slug":"teh-great-atheist-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/11\/teh-great-atheist-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teh great Atheist Conspiracy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I really should leave such things to <a href=\"http:\/\/enemiesofreason.blogspot.com\/\">Anton Vowl<\/a>, as he is so much better at them. But I was trolling around the Daily Mail messageboard on a slow Friday afternoon when I saw the topic title&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/newsdebate\/r\/t-9906688\/index.html\">are atheists infiltrating organizations such as education, government etc?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>and I just knew it was going to be a clusterfuck of epic tinfoil hattery and right-wing paranoia.  I was not disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">In the thread about the dreaded Heinz Mayo &#8220;gay&#8221; ad, one respondent stated that atheists are infiltrating organisations that influence government, educational policy, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Can atheists really do that? After all, they are not an organised as such. Is the real truth merely that more people are rejecting religion and becoming de-facto atheists, such that the proportion of atheists in all sorts of organisations is increasing because of that, i.e. it&#8217;s mere statistics?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Is it really a conspiracy?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A sensible start&#8230;.surely this cannot last.  Atheism debates are like those on abortion&#8230;pure flamebait.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">YES Mikey my man, oh yes!! Read Peter Hitchins, an ex-communist..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The communist party used to say&#8230;go out and submerse Into the establishment, government, schools, authorities&#8230;I&#8217;m not quoting but find out Mikey. Look at government&#8230; the number of ex-communist party members and ex-marxist types&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>YES, THE COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY IS BACK IN FASHION!  POST #1 BITCHES, AND WE&#8217;RE ALREADY BACK TO THE 1950S, BOO-YAH!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Just look at the members in the NUT to find out how far these people have infiltrated education and the &#8216;elf and safety brigade in local councils are teeming with them. Even the higher ranks of the police have them in abundance.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminder: if lots of educated people agree, its not because of superb reasoning skills and access to more factual information, its because they are being manipulated by a conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I haven&#8217;t read anything this funny in a long time! &#8220;These people&#8221; indeed. Atheists were around long before anyone caught religion, and do you know what? We&#8217;re not communists, marxists or fascists, we&#8217;re just people who lead ordinary decent lives without believing in any gods &#8211; and you sound so horrified, as if we&#8217;re trying to undermine society!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Atheist disinformation agents have even infiltrated the Daily Mail!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">i think you are right. you only have to look at Great Britain with high teenage pregnancies, broken homes, political correctness and not being allowed to make judgements about peoples&#8217; lifestyles. There are people being shot dead for being in the wrong place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I think having christian values did keep people on the right track.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Goddamn those fucking Atheists and their lack of morals making it unacceptable for me to persecute teh gheys. I see no unintentional irony in my previous statement whatsoever, either.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The people that have infiltrated our society have no religious preferences. They probably call themselves atheists but their religion is Marxism. They don&#8217;t worship a deity, just an idea that is a proven failure. I suppose that&#8217;s the difference: nobody has ever proven that God does not exist whereas Marxism has been tried and has failed miserably.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">But that won&#8217;t stop those who are hungry for power over the proletariat. Antyjax is obviously familiar with the type, and there are thousands of them, in education, local government and the criminal justice system. It isn&#8217;t an organised conspiracy, but each of them are following the teachings of Gramsci and the Frankfurt School.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that sounded really smart in his head.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Atheists tend to have the evangelical zeal of all religious zealots. They are so arrogant in their personal beliefs and self esteem, that they will not brook alternative belief systems!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">All the PC claptrap, about renaming Christmas and the like, are all down to Atheists in Local Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">What makes their actions all the more disgusting are their attempts at blaming Muslims, or Hindus, etc.. These unfortunates find themselves beset by Press Commentators, blaming them for something for which they have no knowledge, or inclination! To the contrary. They mostly enjoy the family aspects of our CHRISTIAN celebrations!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">(The Muslims also hold Christ in high esteem and see no reason why they should not celebrate Christmas alongside Christians!&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Go to Saudi Arabia and you will find that out in short order!)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, goddamn Atheists and their Winterval!  Religious nutters of the world, UNITE and let us be rid of this menace.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The point of the Bible, and Christianity is to promote harmony and a moral life. The 10 Commandments are good rules for morality, and which every decent human being will follow naturally. As our community has gone away from the church and the fear of what comes next (heaven, hell?), we are heading for barbarism. This is already clear by what is happening in every inner-city and now suburban streets with young men and woman being killed in cold blood for little or no reason. All religions have their own version of the 10 Commandments which again are moral pointers for the followers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">To go to the original question, Jax has answered it pretty well in my opinion. So yes I do really believe that atheists have infiltrated government at every level, hence it will reach the education system. Private church schools, I suspect, are an exception.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Britain was harmonious back when peasants believed the King ruled by the divine grace of God, and I approve of this system. Speaking as an <span style=\"font-style: italic\">agnostic<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I am more alarmed that teachers are using their jobs to poison the minds of our young children with their left wing convictions. It isn&#8217;t as if the teaching profession can be proud of their acheivements as so many children leave school without the ability to read or write properly. Universities are having to train youngsters the basics before they can persue the courses at Uni.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">As for the police they have alienated the majority of the law abiding population with their policy of appeasing criminals and taking ot out on the rest of us.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because ignorance and irrational brutality are hallmarks of all Atheist thought.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I cannot see God but I can have faith In God&#8217;s existence. Science may someday come to a proof of the truth or falsehood of a creator, but It Is In no position today to do either. If you say..&#8221;I see no evidence that there Is a God&#8221; fair enough. But go as far as saying..&#8221;I know there Is no God&#8221; and you have taken a leap of faith as large as that of any theist.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although theists are better, because they are right.  Or something.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I&#8217;m a Christian and I believe In God. It&#8217;s really quite easy, I believe there Is one God. He actually Loves you, and you try to mock and sneer, and yet he still Loves you. But I don&#8217;t actually have to explain my BELIEF to you, rather you have to explain your ASSERTION that there Is no God?? And you have to do a lot better than &#8220;I know there are no God&#8217;s because there Is no evidence.&#8221; You have a BELIEF that there Is no God, and that Is fine. But you don&#8217;t KNOW. So for all your assertions, you&#8217;re not being very assertive are you?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because asserting an unknowable without evidence is an excellent system of logical thinking.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I believe the heading of this post is misleading and would be less so if it read &#8220;are the extreme left infiltrating organisations such as education ,government,etc.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic\">the answer is yes they are and always have done just because tony blair denied them the right to stand as labour candidates doesn&#8217;t mean they have gone away or changed their beliefs they are still out there burrowing away into all aspects of our lives,and i don&#8217;t believe it will be long before they rear their heads again and feel safe to come out into the open again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">They are in all probability atheists,but that is not the b all and end all of their beliefs but may be the basis for them.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic\">The question is ,are they a danger to our society must be an undoubtable yes,but is far more outreaching than just are they atheist !<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Many atheists are content in their non belief,and content to let the rest of us believe what ever we want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The extreme left are not .<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Atheists are a front for the Communists!  COMMUNISTS!!12!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I find it unbelieveably funny how non believers get so upset about something they don&#8217;t believe in<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">ok, you don&#8217;t believe in God. thats your choice. but why do you get so angry and upset with those of us who do believe in God? I find that it is especially the Christian faith which gets such anger etc directed towards it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I do not for one second believe in the hindu religion. However I don&#8217;t get all worked up and angry about it. Let them believe what they do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">atheisem is a belief aswell btw <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><br \/>\nWell, last time I checked, it wasn&#8217;t Hindus who had a majority in this country. But of course that couldn&#8217;t be the reason, could it?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">On numerous occasions, I have had an atheist say to me something along the lines of<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8220;we don&#8217;t know what caused the universe&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">yet they will boldly claim that there is no evidence of God. If God caused \/ created the universe then it stands to reason that the universe (in fact all of creation) is evidence of God. Are you able to prove that God did not cause \/ create the universe?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Incidentally, to answer your question about why I believe in God, there are two reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">1. I believe what is said in the Bible about Him. The central theme is that before God, all have sinned and the punishment for that sin is death. God loved the world so much that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross so that people can be forgiven of their sins. Only in Christianity can I find this redemptive message where salvation is based on what Jesus Christ has done, not on some works-based method present in all other religions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">2. Since becoming a Christian, I have the testimony in my life as to answered prayer, or how God helped me through a difficult situation. The personal evidence for my faith is therefore my testimony. Now others can choose what alternative explanation they give to what I attribute to God at work, but description of something doesn&#8217;t alter what it is. It only affects one&#8217;s perception of it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><br \/>\nLogic is really wasted on some people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I really should leave such things to Anton Vowl, as he is so much better at them. But I was trolling around the Daily Mail messageboard on a slow Friday afternoon when I saw the topic title&#8230;. &#8220;are atheists infiltrating organizations such as education, government etc?&#8221; and I just knew it was going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/11\/teh-great-atheist-conspiracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teh great Atheist Conspiracy&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,15,41,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracy","category-debate","category-lulz","category-media-culture","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}