An author and occasional Washington Post columnist, Kate Cohen, believes America needs more atheists.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Cohen’s October 3 thesis in the Post covers a lot of ground so it’s difficult to divine her preeminent rationale for increasing atheism but one of her prime reasons is to ensure the survival of American democracy.
Is she disclosing democrats (communists/globalists) are atheists? In any other way her thesis is wrapped in insanity.
In urging people to proclaim atheism, Cohen advises:
Consider that the United States—to survive as a secular democracy—needs you now more than ever.
Apparently, Moslems, Jews, Christians, and others who believe in God pose a threat to democracy, though Cohen’s column stopped short of explicitly claiming this threat to be existential.
Cohen is adamant in her desire for more people to identify as atheists.
She wrote:
We can tell people we don’t believe in God.
The more people who do that, the more we normalize atheism in America, the easier it will be—for both politicians and the general public—to usher religion back out of our laws.
Cohen also worries that:
Religious belief is—more and more, at the state and federal levels—a way to sidestep advances the country makes in civil rights, human rights and public health.
If Cohen is concerned that belief in God might erode civil rights, human rights, and public health, she might:
[C]onsider how these and other rights could be
affected by an atheistic society and government.
No speculation is needed to understand the results of this approach to civic life.
[I]t’s been tried before, many times,
with remarkably consistent results.
In the late 18th century, France ushered in the atheistic Cult of Reason:
[O]ne of many mechanisms for excising God from the public square [and] tens of thousands of clergy were murdered or exiled, church property was stolen by the government and the Reign of Terror sent many thousands more to their deaths at the guillotine.
Mexico experimented with atheism in the early 20th century.
President Plutarco Elias Calles sought to eradicate religion in the 1920s, outlawing monastic orders and suspending basic rights for Catholic clergy. When citizens took up arms in protest of Calles’ abuses, a bloody war erupted, prompting the government to line up thousands of believers in front of firing squads.
Beginning in the early 1960s, Fidel Castro thought he had the answer to the problem of religion.
Castro’s Cuba killed, imprisoned, or exiled untold numbers of Catholic priests, and closed or destroyed Methodist, Pentecostal, and Baptist churches. Religious schools were shut down and seized by the ruling government atheists.
Albania proclaimed state atheism in the 1960s and enforced it through executions and exiling monks, priests, and nuns.
The government also appropriated churches, mosques, monasteries, and other religious properties, closing them or converting them to gyms, warehouses, and centers for other secular purposes.
More recently, Cambodia tried state atheism beginning in the second half of the 1970s.
Cambodian atheists murdered tens of thousands of Buddhist monks while destroying their temples and monasteries. The ruling Khmer Rouge banned all religious practices and sought the extermination of certain [moslem] sects.
Murder, theft, and starvation were also rampant in other, better known atheistic regimes.
The histories of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and similarly instituted nations are replete with abuses of civil rights, human rights, and public health, and require no amplification here.
Given this well documented history of what happens in societies anchored in atheism, it’s not unreasonable to wonder why anybody would advocate for more of it and the totalitarianism that invariably accompanies it. Atheism being a core component of Marxist-Leninism and similar civic constructs, it begs the question:
[W]hy Cohen is advocating a social structure
that is fundamental to those ideologies?
That question was not addressed in her column.
It is inevitable that some people will read Kate Cohen’s Washington Post column and think:
‘Yeah, that’s a good idea. I’ll start telling people I don’t believe in God so we can normalize atheism.’
That is their right. But we should be wary of people embracing the philosophies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro and their fellow travelers. Like Cohen, many of these tyrants held a belief in God before being led to atheism, and history is unambiguous on what happened next.
If America is to remain a democratic republic, we cannot ignore Cohen and those like her.
Truth is, America needs more God and fewer atheists.
And we can take our cues from George Washington. In his 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation, Washington wrote:
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.
Washington’s counsel was wise because
he knew that democracy dies in atheism.
As pointed out in another recent article on Front Page Magazine, mainstream religion is already absent in our public schools, but climate change evangelism has solidly replaced it and is prospering.
Yes, climate change has replaced religion. For the Left, The Holy Mother of Perpetual Complaint involves one climate-related fallacy after another.
In the 1970’s, the Left longed for—and feared—the coming ice age. In the ’80s, acid rain had subsumed the Left’s hysteria. In the ‘90s, the Left publicly flagellated over their agony for the imperiled ozone. In the first decade of the 21st century the Left built solar panels and windmills in honor of their god—Perpetual Complaint—and they railed against fossil fuels. The United Nations has taken on a leadership role in the global action of making climate change a central issue most worthy of international worship. This current decade the Left has pursued head long into honoring their god with electric transportation and the forbiddance of gas stoves.
And none of the above-noted worries, hand wringing, and prostrating to The Mother of Perpetual Complaint has done one damn bit of good.
Final thoughts: Critical thinking is taboo; blind obedience to the fear of the decade has become that to which the Left prostrates. And God forbid any mention of God is involved in anything or there will be Hell to pay.
