...It is the fear of God which prevents us from dousing fellow citizens with kerosene and lighting them ablaze. It is the fear of God which prevents us from shooting a disabled man in his wheelchair and then pushing him in to the sea. It is the fear of God which commands us to choose right over wrong...Yikes! I hope to never meet this Amy Barath on the street when she's having a bad day, or wrestling with doubts about God. People like Amy apparently cannot be swayed by rational argument to be good to others out of of self-interest: reciprocity and justice cannot exist if we all do not agree to treat each other fairly and well. She's scary.
It is the responsibility of the Conservatives to protect the concept of God as the golden thread which holds our Republic together in the way it was intended as set forth by our founding fathers. Although we have become tired of the tantrums from the Left, we must muster our energy, fight this one and win. If we do not, if we allow the Left to erase the meaning of God from our memories and disallow us to teach the future generations of this country the importance of fearing God, one day we will be strolling down Main Steet whistling Dixie when a member of the Anti-Whistling Dixie Brigade stops us, throws acid in our faces and then sets as ablaze. [emphasis mine]
What is it about rational arguments for moral behavior that these kinds of people don't get? They're think humans are like dumb animals who need to be broken by fear and caged by religious mandate to keep from killing one another (and, in her mind, immolating each other). They seem to deny that 99% of people raised in loving homes who are educated and encouraged go on to lead nonviolent, healthy, productive, normal lives, with or without religion. In denying the effects of modernism, and the shedding of religion, Amy snubs secular humanistic values and the attendant fruits thereof. The concepts of positive reinforcement and behavior modification [which I use to train two beautiful and gentle giant animals], with empirically-established facts, apparently don't exist in her tiny wingnut brain.
Studies have shown that atheism correlates to lower rates of imprisonment, and to healthier societal indicators (such as abortion rates, teen pregnancy rates, murder rates...). Free societies [versus communist ones] like Sweden, Germany and Japan have very little "fear of God" and no human torches. Why is that, Amy? Why aren't more wheelchair-bound citizens of those countries shot and pushed into bodies of water? I have to wonder how Amy responds to those facts, or if she can even process them...
I'm really not trying to go overboard with the rhetoric when I say people like her honestly frighten me. It is possible that people like her are born with no empathy, or that they have been conditioned to lose it. And those people are dangerous.
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