I noticed in my facebook feed an atheist page quoting 1 Timothy 2, one of several new testament passages giving different instructions to the different sexes - in particular the troubling? counter-cultural? obnoxious? 'a woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or assume authority over a man - she must keep silent.' It appears to be growing at a geometric rate, so it may soon be in your feed too. Christians are naively trying to explain something from their worldview to those outside it which they have plenty of trouble digesting inside the worldview. Atheists are making rules like 'we only allow rational statements on this site', which is so close to 'we only allow what we agree with or what makes us feel more secure' as makes no mind.
I guess atheism is always going to be parasitic on theism, just a very narrow nihilism with no positive content; but this sort of baiting makes the parasitism so naked that I would have thought atheists would feel embarrassed.
I often feel embarrassed by the ranting and baiting by atheists online.
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Gosh yes. I even feel embarrassed by parts of the new testament and by the hard / impossible to substantiate / not literally true history of the old testament. The conservative church movement in America seems to be similarly parasitic on liberal humanism - if humanists are for it, we're agin it, and then we'll rationalise opposition as long as we can (and even longer), and if that means making up facts then that's what we'll do. And how are conservative Christians in political bed with Ayn Rand and co? And the militarism? And the exceptionalist nationalism? (And on and on and on?)
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