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Helen and the Atheist fundamentalists.

I have been offline or relegated to my mobile for a couple of weeks, so this is one I wrote just before the laptop died.

Helen Zille tweeted that Atheist fundamentalists were the worst, She deleted all her stupidity but not before some people made screen shots, Things she said included that Atheists thought they were God and killed without compunction. The stupidity displayed by Ms Zille took my breath away, not because I haven't seen similar foolishness before, but I expected more from a leader in the position she holds. I do believe she must have at some point made an oath to uphold the constitution.


I think she has a degree in journalism and has been around for long enough to know better. Helen used many of the tired arguments used by religiots in their quest to prove atheism as satanic and more. I decided I would look into Atheist fundamentalism. In order to be a fundamentalist, an ideology is required.


As my atheism predates Dawkins, Hitchens et al, I am going to ignore any of their inputs at present. Like them I am anti-theism, I have been an atheist for many years, I became atheist before it was popular. In fact my atheism started when this country was run by the NG church and I know that atheists were not at all well liked. In some circles we are still considered evil and delusional. Atheism like pregnancy is an all or nothing proposition, you cannot be fundamentally pregnant, you either are or you are not. You are either an atheist or you are a theist. There is no almost or maybe.


I Googled “atheist ideology” and found, that atheism is not a religion, it is not a belief system and has no ideology. Helen, fundamentalism requires an ideology. The closest I could come to Atheism as an ideology is state sanctioned atheism. This is where a state that is not secular chooses atheism as it's state “religion”, met ander woorde , these states are saying God isn't real thus as a state we don't have a religion. South Africa is not such a state, South Africa is a secular nation, this means that you have a right to your own beliefs, no matter how batsnot crazy they may be, the state cannot prevent you from practising said religion, the constitution calls this freedom of religion.


Without an ideology atheism cannot be fundamentalist. I believe you confused anti-theism for fundamentalism. Anti-theists hold the position that theism and religion is bad for humanity. This can be considered an ideology if you really wanted to but this ideology has nothing to do with atheism. Some atheists are anti-theists, others are not, some are agnostic. They don't pretend to know if there are any gods.


Anti-theists will say things like there are no gods despite having no proof of this statement. I say there are no gods because in the 40 odd years that I have been sentient, I have not seen any evidence of the existence of any gods, not Amun Ra or even Zeuss or any of the 400000 plus deities mankind has created in their existence. I searched high and low for god and couldn't find him/her or it. I am atheist because I don't believe in any Gods. That's it, nothing else, no ideology, no temples, no holy books, no other reason. It's not Scientific, It's not evolution and I don't believe I am god.


I became anti-theist because I have seen the damage caused by the wuckfittery you call your faith. We have seen planes flown into buildings, we have seen people being decapitated, we have seen children murdered all in the hopes of glorifying a god. We know that many wars have been fought to expand the reach of the church, people have gone to war to gain a blanket amnesty and forgiveness, a seat in heaven guaranteed by the pope himself. We have seen humans blowing themselves and countless innocents to pieces to gain a guaranteed spot in paradise with their 72 virgins. We have seen a nation sent to the gas chambers for killing Jesus. History as we know repeats itself and mankind is too stupid to learn from that history.


I object to being compared with people like Ken Ham, Pat Robertson, George Bush and the loonies of your religion. I am not a fundamentalist. I don't want to kill anyone that has different belief. I merely want the to keep their idiocy in their homes, their temples and massage parlours. I want them to keep it out of politics, government, schools and public meetings. I guarantee you that if they did that, there would be no anti-theists or “fundamentalist” atheists, there would be no need for us.

By the way your Bible has an instruction that may help Helen Zille. It will prevent her from putting her foot in her mouth again. 1 Corinthians 13:14 “Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.”


As your utterances were not in a church, we should look at 1 Timothy 2:12 - 13"But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet, 13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve."


I would suggest that as a fundamentalist Christian you are not very good at following the dictates of your God. I think getting back into the kitchen would stop you from damaging your reputation like this, or you could start thinking clearly, practice a little critical intelligence. Don't take as gospel everything the pastor says. Google is your friend, perhaps you may actually learn something. There is a big world out there and a whole lot of knowledge in books, libraries and the interweb. Cast off the superstition and read a second book. Every human should read at least 100 books before they die, I know you consider the Bible sacred, others consider the koraan and the talmud sacred, but there is as much wisdom and as much folly in any other book of fairy tales.


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