Atheism Isn't Cutting It

An interesting piece in The American Thinker is bound to cause heartburn in academic parlance. Things just aren't going well for the 'godless left-wing':

Atheism just doesn’t hack it any more. It’s got as many charlatans as the fallen TV evangelists. It’s got as many stupidities as some of so-called scientific hypotheses.

“...godlessness is in trouble, according to a growing consensus among philosophers, intellectuals and scholars.

"’Atheism as a theoretical position is in decline worldwide,’ Munich theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg said in an interview. His Oxford colleague Alister McGrath agrees.”

Take Anthony Flew, British philosopher, for example. He was once of the first-in-line atheists. Now he has publicly denounced atheism He reports that evolution, for instance, cannot “account for the fact that one single cell can carry more data than all the volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.”

This doesn't necessarily bode well for traditional Judeo-Christian philsophies, however:

"’With time, [atheism] turned out to have just as many frauds, psychopaths and careerists as religion does. ... With Stalin and Madalyn Murray O'Hair, atheism seems to have ended up mimicking the vices of the Spanish Inquisition and the worst televangelists, respectively,’” Mr. McGrath states.

However, the decline of atheism does not mean a surging forth of Christian faith. It means instead a “re-paganization.” That is, today witches, wizards, pagans of all sorts, New Agers and other non-Christians consider themselves “spiritual.” That term is bantered about freely on talk shows, interviews, and so forth.

Again, another legitimate term has slid from its historic definition into another slot. “Spiritual’ used to be synonymous with God-believing and Bible-adhering. But now it stands for spooks and hocus pocus of many varieties.

On the one hand then it’s exciting to realize that atheism per se is going by the board, but it is not all that Christian-exciting to realize that paganism is becoming prominent and acceptable.

Don't forget that the extreme environmental movement is based on spirituality as well. Remember Al Gore's Earth in the Balance?

Albert Gore's book, "Earth in the Balance - Ecology and the Human Spirit" (Houghton Mifflin, NY: 1992) is so filled with religious terminology, one wonders how the government could possibly implement his plan without an outcry that it is an intrusion of the state into religion. Terms like: "mission," "save," "heretical," "moral," "spirit," "sacred," "spiritual sense of our place in nature," "precinct of the disembodied intellect," "earth goddess," "this belief system," etc. are sprinkled throughout the text.

Even though the era of algore is well behind us, the whacked out extreme environmental movement is alive and well and our government indoctrination centers have been cramming this nonsense into our innocent offspring for more than a generation. It's good to review Gore's message; it lives even though his book died:

Gore arrogantly criticizes ministers for their noninvolvement in environmental affairs. (pp. 245-248) Yet he quotes "the great universalist religions" of the East (pp. 21): "We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment ... Man is organic with the world" (from the Baha'i religion).
Blaming Christianity for the elimination of belief in the "goddess religion" that gave us a "spiritual sense of our place in nature" (p. 260), Gore speaks admiringly of Native American religions' belief that "the earth is our mother ... the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected ..." He calls such quotes "beautiful expressions of our essential connection to the earth." (p. 259) Those who believe otherwise, he says, are "heretical" (p. 258).

Atheism may be waning, but earth-goddess religions are on the rise (at last...a religion that can be taught in schools!).