Universal Basic Hitler

Earth Without Genocide

Author Tip Jar

A popular line of atheist reasoning.

The above image could say lots of things.

You know, when you think about it.

The top line could read: “Earth with rape,” and the bottom, “Earth without rape”, for example. Or perhaps, “Earth with genocide / Earth without genocide.” Or “Earth with racism / Earth without racism.”

Any number of such.

My respect for atheists, such as it is, and the secular scientific culture more generally, lapses here at the simple fact that they are unwilling to go to the end of their assumptions. In matters of sex, drug use, family formation, religion, public decency… all that, they will boldly and confidently say that moralities around all such things are social constructions, man-made taboos with no basis in physical reality or nature. Okay. Sure.

But then to watch them, over and over again, turn right around and castigate other things as somehow ontologically evil… greed maybe, or sexism, or eugenics…

They just lose me.

I suspect they lose anybody actually paying attention.

Growing up and, still, occasionally, I would hear people say something along the lines of, “Well, if you need the threat of eternal punishment in order to keep from being a bad person… that means you’re just an asshole.” A statement which, really quite profoundly… entirely misses the point. So much so in fact that I admit I’ve had to question the intelligence of many of my fellow Americans for not seeing it.

See, it’s not that we need the threat of Hell or the promise of Heaven to keep us in line, although, certainly, it might help. No. Religion is rather simply the acknowledgement that… if there’s no God… then there’s no Right or Wrong either.

People push back on this.

They are wrong.

Again. From the materialist / atheistic frame of mind the universe does not give a damn about you, that’s true. But… it also doesn’t give a damn about anything you do. Or, crucially, anything that happens to you. If you become a murdering rapist or are yourself raped and murdered… to the universe what does it matter? Your life is on the level of a zebra on the plains of Africa, or a tree in the forest. Is a lion wrong for tearing the entrails out of its prey? Is Mother Nature wrong for striking down a centuries old oak with lightening? It was popular, I don’t know, around 2007 or so, for the Gay Rights movement to claim that homosexuality was common in nature, and homophobia unheard of, with the implication of course being that, therefore, the first was normal and the second was plainly wrong. Again… whatever your personal views on LGBT lifestyles, surely anyone with a brain can see that this is completely fallacious reasoning? Cannibalism is also common in nature. As is rape. As is murdering the children of your rivals. As is theft. As is incest. Growing up we had various farm animals. Ducks and geese and goats and cows and chickens. A male goat will attempt to impregnate its daughter or its grandmother without hesitation. Male mallards will literally gang rape a female… to the point where I had to personally nurse one’s feather plucked, bleeding body back to health. Our hamster ate its own babies.

All of this is natural.

Is it, therefore, good?

No. Of course not. The naturalistic fallacy is obvious and immediate to anyone who cares to consider it, and a defense of “Well your honor, male lions who take over a new pride often kill the offspring of the previous leader so their own children will have a genetic advantage… Therefore, as you can see, it’s perfectly reasonable for me to have murdered my stepchildren from my wife’s previous marriage” would never hold up in court.

Why?

Because we are Men and Women. Not animals. To make the beasts of the field the standard of moral teaching is an absurd proposition… they eat their own poop. Yet, somehow, again, “the public” accepted such rhetoric, again making the whole premise of self-governance extremely questionable.

At least to me.

Yet such thinking seems predominant. And again, I could respect it…