Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
Saturday, October 4, 2025
MY REPLY TO THIS ATHEIST SCHOLAR WAS REMOVED ?
I appreciate the clarification @ronruggieri9817 because what you’ve said confirms the central point of my argument: your issue is not with atheism as a worldview, but with the tone and politics of some of its advocates. That’s a matter of taste, not causation.
You've now acknowledged that atheism itself isn’t inherently tied to fascism, imperialism, or oppression — which was your original allegation. The rest is about which atheists you approve of based on style and alignment. That’s fair enough, but it's no longer a philosophical or ideological indictment; it’s a personal preference.
Russell debated theology without being deferential, and Hitchens did the same with sharper teeth, but neither ever claimed immunity from critique for religion or politics. If the standard is courtesy, then it applies to both believers and skeptics equally; if the standard is truth, tone is irrelevant.
But your insistence of interjecting "atheism has an unspoken right wing political agenda" into your comments collapses the moment it’s held up to basic scrutiny.
Atheism isn’t an ideology — it’s a single answer to a single question: belief in gods. That’s it. There is no atheist doctrine on economics, imperialism, fascist nationalism, labor, or class. That’s why there are left-wing atheists (Marx, Camus, Goldman, Russell, Fromm), anarchist atheists (Emma Goldman, Kropotkin), liberal atheists (Sagan, Asimov, Carlin), socialist atheists, apolitical atheists — and yes, a few right-leaning ones like Hitchens on foreign policy. That diversity proves the absence of any unified political agenda or program.
If atheism were inherently right-wing, then explain why the vast majority of explicitly right-wing politics — i.e., religious nationalism, dominionism, anti-secular constitutionalism, Zionist theocracy, Hindu chauvinism, Catholic authoritarianism, Francoism, evangelical fascism and Christian Nationalism in the U.S. — are all rooted in religious belief, not disbelief. It wasn’t atheists storming the Capitol with crosses and shofars. It wasn’t secular humanists pushing book bans, anti-gay legislation, or forced birth laws — that’s the religious right, by definition, and what many atheists vehemently oppose, therefore the reason some atheists might appear rude or confrontational when discussing religion with adherents of these types of right-wing religious belief systems.
So the claim of a ‘right-wing atheist agenda’ is projection at best and historical amnesia at worst. The political right has always relied on God, Nation, and Tradition — not secular critique. The fact that some atheists you dislike hold hawkish views doesn’t automatically convert non-belief into a right-wing, conservative movement.
I’m glad we could at least establish that disbelief isn't the danger as you originally claimed — authoritarian certainty is, in every form it takes whether secular or religious.
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@ronruggieri9817
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@Aurealeus Was my just this morning REPLY to you REMOVED by the ZIONIST Jew censorship of American public opinion ? It can be read on my blog and Facebook page. Do the New Atheist Cult evangelists need the support of THE CENSORSHIP ?
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