" Nah, nah, nah! The Freedom From Religion Foundation Was On Rachel Maddow Last Night"

I am asked, or, taunted, rather, over Ron Reagan jr. appearing in a paid-promo ad for the Freedom From Religion Foundation during last nights MSNBC liberal ghetto hours.   To which I give a small, uninterested (meh!).

If someone can tell me why I should care what Ron Reagan jr. thinks about anything my meh! might be a little less but, putting in the minimal research on him this morning, his thinking on atheism would seem to be the product of his mind at 12 when he made his declaration of disbelief.  There aren't many 12-year-olds whose thinking on anything is important, generally only those who gained experience through tragedy or terrible oppression neither of which the young Ron Reagan seemed to have experienced.  Since he's now five times that age (according to Wikipedia, I said I'd done minimal research, after all) and from what I saw of the ad it wouldn't seem that he's put much thought into the matter in the intervening forty-eight years.  As someone who is radically different from when I was 48 and even 58 on the basis of lots of reading and thinking and writing to clarify things, I don't get why I'm supposed to be impressed with people who brag about having decided such issues when they were dopey kids.

I don't much look at the print editions of the lefty magazines anymore, the only place I ever came into contact with the Freedom From Religion Foundation and in that period other than atheists giving it a shout out in their rants, the only thing I ever saw were its fund-raising ads.  I've had several occasions of fact checking stuff they published on their website, perhaps other places and found that they're pretty unreliable when it comes to claims and very superficial in their thinking.  I can say that it is pretty much a family business the founder passing it on to her daughter and son-in-law in that hive of impotent but mightily self-important atheist-leftiness, Madison, Wisconsin.  I think it's pretty much a rule that lefty stuff coming out of college towns is bound to generate idiotically ideological ballot box poison.   Beware university based radicalism, its tenured proponents are mostly idiots.

It's one of the things that the internet made far easier and so possible to a non-specialist, fact checking claims made by ideologues of all kinds, the heroes of ideological movements, discerning the actual character of so many of these non-profits which are actually minor business enterprises, that almost all of them have clay feet and often clay heads as well.   I've got to say that on the left the unreliability of atheist propaganda is rather breathtaking when you fact check them.  Replacing reliability with the kind of celebrity fame fucking that having Ron Reagan jr. in such an ad is might get you donations enough to keep the family business running, it isn't any way to be honest and above board.  Really, why would anyone base their decision on such a thing on the basis of celebrity?  Such a decision based on such a foundation is not likely to be very impressive, it's the kind of thing you can imagine wowing a 12-year-old but not a serious adult.