{"id":46039,"date":"2014-07-31T07:37:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T12:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46039"},"modified":"2014-07-31T09:04:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:04:37","slug":"comeuppance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46039","title":{"rendered":"Comeuppance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of us in the faith community have observed that Big Atheism loves to attack Christianity (the “turn the other cheek” faith) with a demented fervor, while remaining fairly silent about occasionally, disturbingly violence-prone Islam.<\/p>\n

“Why don’t you take a crack at excoriating Islam \u2013 or to one of the other secular faiths, like big feminism?” we ask.<\/p>\n

We all assumed the answer was because they were hypocrites.
\nThe real answer seems to be “because they’re hypocrites, and are justly afraid of their own, co-secular-religionists on the left”.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Andrew Dawkins \u2013 one of Big Atheism’s major evangelists \u2013 finally crossed that invisible line, and started attacking not only Islam, but the left’s great secular faith, gender identity feminism.<\/p>\n

It hasn’t worked out well<\/a> \u2013 for him, or for Big Left’s intellectual honesty.
\nFor the rest of us, though?<\/p>\n

In the process, he\u2019s exposed a rich vein of hypocrisy in the Left \u2014 and, more significantly, an intellectual rift between hard-line and multiculturalist atheists. That rift is growing fast: non-believers, having exhausted their anti-Christian rhetoric, are turning on each other with the ferocity of religious zealots. Enjoy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The whole thing is worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of us in the faith community have observed that Big Atheism loves to attack Christianity (the “turn the other cheek” faith) with a demented fervor, while remaining fairly silent about occasionally, disturbingly violence-prone Islam. “Why don’t you take a crack at excoriating Islam \u2013 or to one of the other secular faiths, like big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46042,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46039\/revisions\/46042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}