Almost Summer Idyll - Hate Mail

I'm tired of the passion of the Rosenbergs.  I don't want to write anymore about it. 

Instead I'll remark how shockingly uniform the thinking of the self-declared "free-thinkers" is.  I'm not the first to notice this.  It's so uniform that any deviation in the program of scientistic materialism - in my experience of them, the uniform ideological holding of "free thought" - will lead to violent anger and banishment if not worse among them.  That was one of the most interesting things about "elevatorgate" and the various "free thoughts" of "free thinkers" which still resonate in such anger and hatred in such circles.  It wasn't that so many of the "free thinkers" turned out to be sexist a-holes, that's always been the case in such circles which are mostly males of a particularly old-fashioned type, it was that it was one of the few examples of difference among them. That it split largely along gender lines, with some outliers on both sides, wasn't that surprising in retrospect.  Atheism, especially its false front of "Skepticism" has always been a boy's club. 

What brings this to mind is a bit of snark about Sr. Simone Campbell referencing a Protestant biblical scholar, theologian and minister, as if that were not either to be expected or allowed.  The lack of uniformity in religious thinking is used both ways by atheists.  Freedom of thought about religion is held to a. be a vice when an atheist wants to point to it as a claim that all religion is false and b. something which is denied to exist when atheists want to claim that religion is opposed to free thought, a mental handcuff, an exercise in brainlessness.  

It is a plain fact that such "free thinkers" feel no need to be consistent or even in their application of principles or to conform their own proclamations to their previously stated stands - so often those stands, themselves, are said out of both sides of their mouths.  Even more remarkable is the percentage of those "free thinking" scientistic materialists who will, even from the platform of the "Free Thought" Blogs declare that free thought, free will, free choice doesn't exist, in my experience of them, generally through a purely and inaccurately ideological reading of this or that scientific experiment which doesn't demonstrate what they claim it does.   That they will, then, go on to claim "free thought" for themselves and their fellow ideologues - who share the same ideology - while denying its possibility doesn't seem to ever seem odd to them.  Which leads me to think that they don't think very deeply.