![]() And honestly I'm not sure we're biologically capable of atheism, not in large numbers. So vast I'd call it happiness compared to where we are. Too long comment, but basically there is no such thing as Rights, and "do what thou wilt" would be a vast improvement over what we do at this stage. Once you discover it you may bring it forth to the public so the violator and his descendants if he cannot be found may be justly punished. If you look at what law actually consists of you'll find Right Mining, an activity that apparently feels very edifying where people go digging through conflicts to find a "violated" right. Enlightenment philosophy's heyday is elevated to a stage of importance greater than that of Christ's Rome, and leftism's backward-facing spirit-imbued nature is evident to all. Z-man makes a similar mistake in his post in talking about secular leftism, which is not secular.Ĭhristianity has not been supplanted by no morals but by a worse moral, namely the notion of "Rights." And what we call secular leftism is actually extremely superstitious enlightenment-based conservatism that is full of prophets and ghosts and immortal names (e.g. People deny themselves things they want and need all the time, and atheists are the worst self-destroyers. "Do what thou wilt" is no part of the law and we are departing further from the possibility of it all the time. Stefan Molyneux, himself an atheist, regularly points out how devastating it has been for the West not to have killed God, but to have failed to replace Him with anything worthy of reverence. The last graph shows the percentages who say homosexual acts are “always wrong” (N = 6,128):Ĭause, effect, and the potential noisy confounds and confounding noise aside, Vox Day’s assertion has a powerful plausibility to it. The next graph shows the percentages who say having sex under the age of seventeen is “always wrong”(N = 6,402): Responses are from 2000 onward and are restricted to non-Hispanic whites (N = 6,271): The following graph shows the percentages of people who have ever cheated on a spouse while married, by their belief (or lack thereof) in God. And then, “do what thou wilt” becomes the whole of the law. Once God is removed from the picture, so are the limits of the moral structure He has imposed on Man. Vox Day, in the context of an interview about sexual promiscuity and the damage it does to children:
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