"It's All About Me" Says The Atheist

Christians Receive a Back Handed Compliment

Harvard sociologist, Steven Pinker jumped to the heart of the matter.  Claiming the high moral ground for atheism, he removed all doubt when he argued that Christianity was a malignant religion. 

It took us about ten minutes to stop laughing.  What a dumb position to take! 

Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker said Thursday that the push for reopening society from lockdowns comes from Christianity’s “malignant delusion” of belief in an afterlife.  Atheists who believe in this life alone are more concerned with health and safety, Professor Pinker suggested in a Tweet, while Christians tend to devalue “actual lives” and live a riskier existence.  [Breitbart]

Of course Pinker had to disclose the underlying principles of his world view in order to reach such a bizarre conclusion.  He has to acknowledge that selfish preoccupation with one's own life and existence is the true and reasonable starting position for atheistic morality.  Because of this selfist view he is able to argue that the only ground for true happiness and fulfilment is to go through life with a world-view that reads something like:

Get all you can
Can all you get,
Poison the rest.

In other words, it's all about ME. 

Pinker was responding to an article this week in the Washington Post, which examined findings that Democrats take the virus “more seriously” than Republicans and are more willing to support restrictive government edicts in response to the pandemic.

Consequently, government edicts can justify all sorts of abuse and neglect of the elderly, the weak, the sick, and the bereft. 

But Christian march to the beat of a very different Drummer.  Their hope is not to be found in this world, but in the one to come.  As a result, Christians are far more caring and concerned about the welfare of others than chaps like Pinker.   

Therefore, while we are warned that it profits a man nothing if he gain the whole world and lose himself, the expectation of a new earth must not weaken but rather stimulate our concern for cultivating this one. For here grows the body of a new human family, a body which even now is able to give some kind of foreshadowing of the new age.

Study after study has found that such “theory” is borne out in practice as well, with religious people proving far more generous with their time and money than atheists.

In one of the largest studies of its kind, the massive Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey in 2000 found that religious people are 25 percentage points more likely than secularists to donate money and 23 points more likely to volunteer their time.