Unabashedly Unhyphenated

I've spent a bit of time reading the thoughts of some atheist leftists in the blogosphere in an attempt to gain some perspective on why they seem to hate Christians so much. It occurs to me that there probably is no such thing as a "conservative athiest" because conservatism requires thought based on the premise that there are moral absolutes to which a culture and a nation must defer, in all instances.

I'll bullet point out my observations after bringing you some yuletide cheer:

Liberty Counsel: Doors Now Wide Open for Christian Clubs at Nation's Schools

"I think it's ironic as these schools hassle the Good News Clubs, because they're great organizations," Staver shares. "They teach character, they teach morality, they teach right and wrong, they teach respect, and they do it all from a Christian viewpoint -- and the kids' lives are literally changed."

Athiests are afraid. Only fear can raise such bile and vitriol in opposition to the very things that are the undisputable starting point for the culture and the freedoms they have.
Athiests must not be very deep thinkers, despite whatever conflated inflation of their own selves they might believe. Seriously. Try as I might, I cannot find an instance of an athiest even pondering an explanation for "first cause." Do they ever go down this path, or do they consider the starting point for the universe to be truly uninteresting and so devoid of merit that they won't discuss it?
Athiests approach arguments with a markedly adolescent point of view. Whenver I read their rants against religion I always get the feeling that some part of them is stuck in their teen years. The tone of their mocking is a spot-on rendition of the all-knowing everyteen lament that parents are backward and don't know anything that might be of value to them for the future.
Athiests are among the most intolerant of all people. They've made up their minds that anyone who believes in God isn't worthy of respect. I'll grant that some of them don't wear their scorn on their sleeves so clearly, but I'm convinced that those who athiests who don't immediately start mocking theists for their faith immediately brand the faithful as idiots as soon as a person's faith persuasion is determined. Maybe they don't say so, but they think less of us.
Theists, at least those who come from Christian upbringings, generally don't have such automatic feelings when they learn of someone's athiesm. And I think that's because there is nary a Christian who hasn't suffered a crisis of faith and recovered; the default thinking mode that a Christian assumes when confronted by the athiest is "well, there is hope that this one might come around."

That said, hooray for the Fourth Circuit. I know I'll probably never be able to say that for the Ninth!

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