The War on Atheism

Rabbi Daniel Lapin: "Atheists are parasites in the sense that they're benefiting from everything that religious culture has built in America but they're doing nothing to add anything into the system. You know, some of the best corners of America are places where people go to church every Sunday. The real answer to atheism, to the cataclysmic epidemic of disbelief is for people to show the enhancing of life and how the quality of life goes up when faith is a part of life."

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"The religious and the non-religious have two incompatible world visions for this country, we have to settle it now. I hope not with blood, not with guns. But we're going to have to settle it nonetheless. The good news is that I think our side is finally ready to settle this, roll up its sleeves, take off its jacket and get a little bloody. Spill a little blood. We'll settle it and we'll win, there's no holding this back."

Also, his quote of "everything that religious culture has built in America"...
Does he know that the founding fathers were atheist/agnostic/deist at best?
I can only imagine their views had they lived with our current knowledge.

Some of the founding fathers:  

Thomas Jefferson ripped out the parts of the bible he thought were nonsense, he ended up with a tiny tiny document called the Jefferson Bible. 
He also said 

Thomas Paine said: "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." 

George Washington: "Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society."


When did absurdity like this become normal.

If you like the idea of consolation in a god, think about what you want to believe and what you can believe in the face of natural reality.

I think it should seem obvious to anyone that there is no god that directly influences everything that happens. You have a hell of a lot to explain if you disagree with that premise, but feel free to do so.

That should immediately make you deist at best, hopefully agnostic.
Which immediately means you are free to reject the myths and stories that are being used as tools for amoral purposes every day.
Individual wealth (ever seen the vatican?), oppression, mutilation, intolerance, violence and possibly most important of all: opposing progress.

Which god would willfully allow that to happen? Not mine.

A simple 5 minute series of thoughts could really clear up your head.

There is an answer for EVERY question you have. You just have to do more than just speculate or accept what an authority figure says.