‘In the Bible Belt, Offering Atheists a Spiritual Home’
4th July 2013
Could you imagine an article in the New York Times entitled ‘On the atheist coast, offering theists a spiritual home’? No, neither can I, and that points out one of the most bizarre affectations afflicting the Crust these days: The blithe assumption that, even though they run the country, they’re some how ‘rebels’ and ‘edgy’, even ‘oppressed’. Our Ruling Class is never happier than when they are playing at being victims — a romantic fringe revolting against a stifling conformity … when they are the stifling conformity. It’s like a bunch of high-school students, being rebelliously independent — and all dressing and talking the same way. You wonder what they will do when they actually wake up.
Atheists, by definition, don’t need a ‘spiritual home’ — spirit is exactly the thing they deny, and their home is wherever the Rulling Class pitch their tents. In a world where high-school students get denied diplomas for daring to mention God at graduation, I don’t see that atheists have a lot to complain about; they’re sitting in the driver’s seat with their hands on the wheel but bitching about having no say about where the car is going. There are some situations for which the term ‘clueless’ is entirely inadequate.