I recently saw a blog post on one of the gazillions of anti-religion blogs on the net with a title that read “Atheism is Freedom”. The blog author didn’t write anything. He just posted a video of a cartoon episode entitled “The Case of the Cola Cult”. The video amounted to nothing more than a strawman and since the author didn’t post anything but the video it was difficult to understand what he wanted to communicate with the video.

It could be easily inferred, however, given the context of the blog, that this blogger is against religion and sees adherence to religion as nothing more than mental prison.

I also saw another blog, recently, displaying a popular video from Sam Harris “preaching” (for lack of a better term) to an audience telling them that “atheism is freedom from mental slavery”. He goes on to admit that atheist are free to recognize that we don’t know all that we can know about the universe (I’m paraphrasing here).

These blog posts got me thinking. Ever since I saw them I’ve been wondering if atheism really is freedom. In my mind, becoming an atheist is not much more than trading one dogma for another, one set of beliefs for a completely different set of beliefs.

The trouble is that atheists, in general, refuse to put their beliefs under the same scrutiny that they expect people of other religions. The atheists I meet typically put religions like Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. under a high powered microscope, and then go over it with a fine tooth comb. When it comes to atheism, however, they follow the crowd of Dawkinites and bow to the idol of Hitchens without so much as a raised eyebrow.

The hue of glowing light around Dawkins and his ilk is nothing more than the blinding call of “follow me and I will lead you a utopia of freedom”. Atheists jump on the band wagon and never look back or scrutinize the fallacies of the Dawkins religion. They blindly follow what the “leaders” of their faith (yes, I said faith) tell them. Is that freedom? Not hardly.

Freedom in this respect is really a misnomer. Following atheism isn’t freedom. Those who believe it is are seriously deceived.

Freethinkers? Freedom

Quoted from an atheist video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Ht8QmFLRw

“…Atheists together work towards that specific agenda, our victory is inevitable, we need to unite under one banner, a new social order is perpetually coming, the age of faith and irrational belief is reaching it’s final chapter…”

First of all, how can Atheists hear this and then deny that Atheism is an organized belief system?  Atheists are already united under one banner, it’s the banner of humanism and socialism where religion and free speech is banned and any thought process other than the thought process of Atheism is wrong.

Even if this happens, since Atheism requires faith and is itself an irrational belief then I fail to see how faith and irrational belief is “reaching it’s final chapter”.

Atheism Evangelism, Atheism as a Religion, Freethinkers?

One of the things that bugs me the most about Atheism is that they have successfully integrated the term “Freethinkers” into their identity as a group. Some have even identified Atheists as “smart people” implying that only Atheists can be intelligent.

A reader recently writes:

It’s hard to “backslide” from atheism to Christianity because you have to go from thinking to not thinking (at least if you become a born-again Christian, like Cameron & Comfort). Granted, it happens, but not often.

Backsliding from Christianity is also hard. Because you have to learn how to think. But as an ex-Christian, I must say that I moved forward and grew more — emotionally, intelectually, [sic] and even spiritually — after I stopped believing than I ever did when I was a Christian.

We are a little bit tired of this dogma/rhetoric and are taking this opportunity to speak out against the notion that only Atheists can be intelligent and free thinkers. The battle between Atheism and other organized groups that have a set of beliefs about god is bigger than I fear most people realize and this is a way that Atheists can brainwash people into thinking that Spirituality is your ticket to unpopularity and non-mainstream.

Atheists use the same tactics as most companies that have something to sell. They are selling you a dogma that on the surface looks better, more popular, more intelligent so that people who are concerned about their appearance, about being popular, about what others think and about fitting in with the “in crowd” will join the movement. This is anything but freethinking. This is pure manipulation and nothing more than emotional abuse. Atheism preys on people’s emotions and desire to do what’s popular.

Is it possible to be spiritual and still think for oneself? Of course. Is it possible to be an Atheists simply because you are following the popular crowd and be brainwashed, not thinking for oneself? Of course. So why do Atheists proclaim the idea that they and only they are “freethinkers” and “Smart”? For only one purpose. For the express purpose of recruiting people to their belief system and to promote their belief system to the world in order to fulfill their agenda. Who wouldn’t want to be associated with a group that has the identity of being smarter than everyone else?

Atheists are hypocritically doing the same things that they accuse spiritual religions of doing. They are manipulating people into thinking the way they want you to think so that they can spread their lies and false doctrine of humanism and secularism to the world.

I’m so tired of hearing Atheists claim that they are “free thinkers”. Contrary to what Atheists preach, Atheists are NOT the ONLY “Freethinkers” around. Atheism does not have the patent on free thinking. Many, many Atheist are simply blindly following the popular view of a secular, liberal society that pushes Atheism on them and brain washes them with intellectualism and faulty science that is often fixed in order to support the theory of evolution and the Atheistic world view.

If you happen to be one of the billions of people who disagree with the Atheism left, then you are a bigoted, “anti-science” “religious nut.” And by extension, you, your beliefs, relevant portions of the Bible, Creation Science or anything else which might even be perceived as slightly “anti-Atheism” or “pro-spirituality” must either be forced to conform to the Atheists’ view of things or be done away with altogether.

Atheists follow the teachings of their crowd just as any other religion. Atheists, don’t think freely at all. All they do is find the information that supports their beliefs and then promote them. They push their beliefs on people and try and convert people to their way of thinking just like they hypocritically accuse other religions of doing. Don’t believe me? Just put up a website like this one speaking out against Atheism and see how many ‘loving’ emails and blog posts you get from the Atheists.

Freethinkers?