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ebonlockDennis Prager, filled with the stupid:
Why Are Atheist Books Best Sellers?
It is not due to their eloquence, originality or persuasiveness that these books have become best sellers. I believe other factors are at work. And they are:
First and most significant is the amount of evil coming from within Islam. Whether Islamists (or jihadists, Islamo-Fascists or whatever else Muslims who slaughter innocents in the name of Islam are called) represent a small sliver of Muslims or considerably more than that, they have brought religious faith into terrible disrepute.
How could they not? The one recognized genocide in the world today is being carried out by religious Muslims in Sudan; liberty is exceedingly rare in any of the dozens of nations with Muslim majorities; treatment of women is frequently awful; and tolerance of people with different religious beliefs is largely nonexistent when Muslims dominate a society.
But wait, just when you think, "Oh he's just your average wingnut bigot, nothing to see here" he goes and adds this:
If the same were true of vegetarians — if mass murder and violent intolerance were carried out by vegetarians — there would be a backlash against vegetarianism even among people who previously had no strong feelings about the doctrine.
And if kittens carried Uzi's they'd...um...something bad! Seriously, WTF? Sadly, No! labels this is the worst analogy ever and I've got to say I haven't run into a worse one that I can remember. Or is he perhaps attempting to make some connection between vegetarians and fascists (if you use the old myth that Hitler was a vegetarian it all makes sense in a wingnutty sort of way), perhaps it's a version of wingnut semaphore. Though I must say I can't make heads nor tails of the Muslims = Atheists argument.
Why Are Atheist Books Best Sellers?
It is not due to their eloquence, originality or persuasiveness that these books have become best sellers. I believe other factors are at work. And they are:
First and most significant is the amount of evil coming from within Islam. Whether Islamists (or jihadists, Islamo-Fascists or whatever else Muslims who slaughter innocents in the name of Islam are called) represent a small sliver of Muslims or considerably more than that, they have brought religious faith into terrible disrepute.
How could they not? The one recognized genocide in the world today is being carried out by religious Muslims in Sudan; liberty is exceedingly rare in any of the dozens of nations with Muslim majorities; treatment of women is frequently awful; and tolerance of people with different religious beliefs is largely nonexistent when Muslims dominate a society.
But wait, just when you think, "Oh he's just your average wingnut bigot, nothing to see here" he goes and adds this:
If the same were true of vegetarians — if mass murder and violent intolerance were carried out by vegetarians — there would be a backlash against vegetarianism even among people who previously had no strong feelings about the doctrine.
And if kittens carried Uzi's they'd...um...something bad! Seriously, WTF? Sadly, No! labels this is the worst analogy ever and I've got to say I haven't run into a worse one that I can remember. Or is he perhaps attempting to make some connection between vegetarians and fascists (if you use the old myth that Hitler was a vegetarian it all makes sense in a wingnutty sort of way), perhaps it's a version of wingnut semaphore. Though I must say I can't make heads nor tails of the Muslims = Atheists argument.
