Atheists are feeling the swelling spirit of the devil in these times we live in; it's making them brave (but no less shallow)

JOHN (responding to an atheist):

"But that's all a distraction, anyhow, for you never did answer about Stalin. Or Lenin. Or Trotsky, Mao, Ho Chi Min, Robespierre, the Paris Comunards, the homocidal regimes of eastern Germany and communist Romania, the anticlerical killers from the Mexican Revolution and Spanish Revolution. All the other folks who, after liberating people from the shackles of religion, proceeded to kill them by the thousands and millions. Like I said, when you have a near total correlation, causation becomes a moot point.

And yet there is a causation. All the killers of the modern age sought to transform their societies in a non-religious context. All of them used a utilitarian "greater good" rationalization unchecked by any sense of value found in human life mandated by Christian teachings. In short, they all killed to create an earthly paradise in lieu of a Heavenly one."

ME (writing to John):

John, your writing is a bit above the level of Ent. the Atheist.

Atheists in general are shallow. When you make the denial of anything metaphysical a mark of intelligence you are deathly shallow.

I often like to ask atheists what their favorite books are. They can't help but expose their shallowness in answering that question. Ask them what their favorite composers are. They have to fearfully avoid the names Bach, Handel, Palestrina, et al... Artists? They'll pass on that. Scientists? They love the current crowd of politically-correct little 'afraid of losing their grants' suck-ups to the leftist thought-police. But all the Christian scientists just since the Reformation they are a bit hazy about. Can't recollect them very well. Shoulders, standing on, all that...it's a blank spot in their minds.