New Atheism a front for Zionism?

Link to "The New Atheism" on Wikipedia

I have no quarrel with your Sunday editorial pointing out anti-Semitism where it is clearly evident. But the hot story in the blogosphere the past week is the evidence of a Hate Crime in the slaying of three young Muslims in North Carolina.

I have had a problem with the very concept of HATE CRIME for years. If a maniac blows your brains out, what consolation would it be to your family if it were determined that HATE was not a motive? What brutal crimes are not motivated by HATE?

But there is certainly a political slant on the killer Craig Hicks. He does represent the New Atheism with a vengeance. A lot of research makes me suspect that the New Atheism is a front for Zionism. It just might be funded and encouraged by FBI/CIA operatives. I recall the infamous COINTELPRO program of the Nixon era. The agencies would actually plant "violent types" in respectable political organizations. Think about it. You will soon be reading about it.

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Should Humanists embrace Ayn Rand?

How can Humanists best respond to injustice? Not in the rude, mean spirited manner of the New Atheists putting up obnoxious ads on Rhode Island Public Transit Authority buses: "Godless, so are we."

Does Logic & Reason culminate in a reactionary social philosophy? Should Humanists embrace the Ayn Rand cult? What does her crackpot atheist cult classic "The Virtue of Selfishness" have to offer black rage in the streets of America this past week? Do Humanists want to make common cause with our ONE PERCENT plutocracy? How many of these super-rich people are oh-so-enlightened atheists, having liberated themselves from the superstitious fear of Hell for the injustice they perpetuate here on earth?

Clearly the New Atheism is giving moral support to our government's Crusade Against Islam, spreading its oh-so-enlightened  Islam-o-phobia. A scandalous  TORTURE REPORT of prisoners of war is being released today. Put the military bases on alert against THEIR evil! The evil of ISIS!

As a long time SOCIALIST,  I must ask my fellow Humanists if they think they are above the CLASS STRUGGLE? Has the New Atheism made peace with U.S. imperialism? What does Reason & Logic have to say about the madness of the capitalist way of life?

I can't imagine joining a New Atheist club where a Hitler and a Lenin can exchange mocking jokes about Jesus Christ rising from the dead. And joking too about his gospel of Love. What a fool!

The crackpot atheist Ayn Rand, of course, worshipped MONEY. Do we embrace her?

NOTE:  Of course, there is a long tradition of Judeo-Christian humanism. Did organized atheism ever sponsor even a two-bit SOUP KITCHEN?

A Pulitzer Prize investigation: the New Atheism?

I note the number of comments on my short letter just questioning the political agenda of the New Atheism. To be sure, if the Ayn Rand cranks are prominent in the movement, the progressives have formed an unprincipled alliance.

Every socialist knows in his bones that you cannot begin to win the hearts and the minds of the common people- so necessary for REAL socialism- if you just scold them for being dupes of organized religion. And it is an effete and sophomoric atheism that wants to refight intellectual battles won by Science long ago. And no committed socialist would find it necessary to antagonize the world's major religions unless they have forged a sinister conspiracy with the ruling classes against the people.

It was the greatest mistake of the Russian Bolsheviks to make their state officially atheist. They should have copied America here-with its separation of Church and State. Any intelligent socialist would assume that public education with emphasis on basic science- biology, chemistry, physics- would free most young minds from what that IDEAL HUMANIST, astronomer, and popular science writer, Carl Sagan, called the "Demon Haunted World."

I link the crackpot atheist Ayn Rand, author of "The Virtue of Selfishness," and her bizarre cult, with HUMANIST Isaac Asimov's "Armies of the Night." They clearly worship MONEY!

I will try to reply to many of those comments on my blog http://radicalrons.blogspot.com/ But one question remains: How many of the New Atheists apply reason and logic to the everyday insanity of the capitalist way of life?

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Political agenda of RIPTA "Godless" campaign?

I don't have any quarrel with atheistic humanism. But I smell the "New Atheism" in these obnoxious RIPTA bus ads: "Godless? So are we!" The new atheism is characterized by rude, snobby and mean spirited effrontery.

As a socialist I can only wonder at its political agenda. Individuals who feel a need to join exclusive "intellectual" cliques  are rarely friends of the oppressed and exploited masses. Do they apply reason & logic to the highly irrational capitalist system?  Or am I correct in suspecting that many of these naturally superior individuals are devoted to the Ayn Rand cult?

Ayn Rand remains the crackpot queen of pro-capitalist atheism.

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