Back when neo-atheism was new and at its most obnoxious on lefty blogs and comment threads, back when I was just realizing what a problem it was other than the obvious ballot-box-poison that such atheists were peddling, I remember getting into a massive row with a bunch of them at Eschaton and other places over the, then, hero of such dopes, Sam Harris. The now infamous passage saying that it might be a good thing to launch nuclear first strikes that would kill tens of millions of innocent people in a day in order to prevent "The Islamic Bomb" figured in it. I was just learning how to really get under the skin of such atheist idiots so I made the much more modestly murdering suggestion of, instead, going to the root of the problem and killing all of the nuclear scientists of the kind who had been exposed for selling nuclear know-how to the Kim regime in North Korea and who, in fact, are the ultimate source of all of the danger from nuclear technology.
The idea that killing several thousand scientists, or perhaps fewer, was a lot more fair than killing tens of millions of innocent people was far more of a terrible idea to the college-credentialed atheists than the idea of killing tens of millions of innocents. That was a major parting of the ways between us, I have seldom been so glad to leave such former ill considered comrades behind me. I have had that same argument in several forms since then, though not so much involving Sam Harris who has, like Richard Dawkins, given himself cooties as his former fan boys and gals parted ways with them.
I am reviving my modest proposal in view of this new nuclear catastrophe in Putinia which, as the gangster regimes lies and cover up gives way, is getting ever worse. If they're now admitting to the horrific original news, it can only be because things are far worse. I don't feel sorry for the nuclear scientists and technicians who have been killed and contaminated - no doubt to die later - I feel sorry for the innocent people who will die and be injured, the wildlife that will die, who knows who else who will die as a result of their science. Such scientists are the ultimate source for what they produce, for what they propose for what they dream up. They are probably the foremost evidence that the creators of the story of the fall of man by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, of stories such as Faust were on to something.
---------------------
I don't know the supposed religious nature of the nuclear scientists who produced these disasters - atheists love to brag that they fucking OWN science, man - but they certainly aren't moral people. They are likely to get us all killed, certainly many of us, through the replacements of morality in instrumental and utilitarian systems of reasoning, of the sheer nihilistic depravity that is the result of the materialism that so many of them adhere to. I have recently posted a criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church which, recently, suspended the practice of blessing nuclear weapons - to the objection of some nationalist Orthodox clergymen. I think that such Orthodox collaborators with Putin's regime are a variation on the corrupted, Nazi enthusiasts of Nazi "Positive Christianity". In many ways, I think, the Putin regime is going to reproduce what Hitler did only, now, with nuclear capability. Putin is, I am convinced, a cynical gangster with no moral convictions or religious beliefs at all. Exactly the kind of person you would have expected would rise in the KGB and out of the corrupt, incompetency of the Yeltsin government. I don't see the Patriarch of Moscow as any kind of opponent of this depravity. I think Putin is merely a more skilled and manipulative gangster than Hitler was, and Hitler was bad enough for being good at that. His rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox establishment is sheer cynicism by a man of no religious conscience. The Orthodox hierarchy has no such excuse, they're not supposed to do that. But science, of course, takes no position on the morality of any of it, it is the prime example of how instrumental reasoning is a maladaptation that might end up killing us all.
No comments:
Post a Comment