I’d rather be an atheist living in a Christian society, than an atheist living in an atheist society.
Humans are a very prescriptive species; they desire to seek a higher power for spiritual guidance and leadership. Most humans anyway. As for myself, I’m an anomaly who doesn’t need an entity higher than me for guidance. Yet I understand that most humans want one.
Christian societies place God above their kings, presidents, and prime ministers. They see their god as the true direction. Christian societies have defied corrupt governments and church leaders through what they believed was God’s will. Atheist societies like those led by Stalin have no god, so they look to the government as the highest power. Without religion interfering, statists, socialists, and communists can make their governments the holy deities of the land. So it’s no wonder why so many atheists lean authoritarian-left. At least in a Christian society there is some resistance to authoritarian governments.
The Founding Fathers of the United States wrote the Bill Of Rights in a structure to enlighten the public that our rights were not gifts from a king or a government, but our natural human rights, (or God-given rights). The founders were Deists, and while some of them disfavored Christianity, they understood most of the common citizens of their new country were of the Christian faith. The founders did not want government to replace god, the way authoritarians do.
Humans are a very prescriptive species; they desire to seek a higher power for spiritual guidance and leadership. Most humans anyway. As for myself, I’m an anomaly who doesn’t need an entity higher than me for guidance. Yet I understand that most humans want one.
Christian societies place God above their kings, presidents, and prime ministers. They see their god as the true direction. Christian societies have defied corrupt governments and church leaders through what they believed was God’s will. Atheist societies like those led by Stalin have no god, so they look to the government as the highest power. Without religion interfering, statists, socialists, and communists can make their governments the holy deities of the land. So it’s no wonder why so many atheists lean authoritarian-left. At least in a Christian society there is some resistance to authoritarian governments.
The Founding Fathers of the United States wrote the Bill Of Rights in a structure to enlighten the public that our rights were not gifts from a king or a government, but our natural human rights, (or God-given rights). The founders were Deists, and while some of them disfavored Christianity, they understood most of the common citizens of their new country were of the Christian faith. The founders did not want government to replace god, the way authoritarians do.
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