Atheism is Such a Waste of Time

Atheism is Such a Waste of Time
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, September 23, 2011

Preface: Atheism is such a waste of time particularly for young people. It’s the secular religion of fools. Sadly, many of the advocates of the culture of death in America have succumbed to it. I am thinking of the programs of the ACLU; and immigrant and now U.S. citizen George Soros with his agenda.

However, we have writer Edward Feser with his book The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism. We will share poignant excerpts from the book reviewed by New Oxford Review, Sept, 2011.

The author has a response to the “New Atheism “of Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. Edward Feser is not above belittling the atheists, stating that one is “ almost tempted to think Dawkin’s research for the philosophical chapters of his book consisted entirely of quick thumbing through Philosophy for Dummies …” Harris shuns Aquinas and seems to “dismiss the great religious thinkers of the West without having read them...

While asserting that “atheist chic is now,” Feser exposes atheism as the “ultimate superstition” with a goofy catechism that preaches environmentalism and animal-rights activism. He also takes on secularism, a snobbish creed that worships science, abhors religion and traditional values, and ignores the fact that “Western religious tradition itself very firmly rests on and embraces reason and science.”

A conversational, snappy pace propels lessons from Plato and Aristotle, showing that “reason can reveal to us that there is a God, that we have immortal souls, and that there is a natural moral law.”… The great medieval Scholastic realist, St. Thomas Aquinas, supported Aristotelian logic for God’s existence…“Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the foundation of modern philosophy did, was the greatest single mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.” …

Traditional morality, based on natural law, is shown to rest on an “analysis of human nature entailed by classical philosophy.” Homosexuality may exist like other deformities, but it is not natural. Feser argues that supposed genetic basis for homosexuality is irrelevant since the unnatural character of a homosexual act does not conform, in the Aristotelian sense, “to the essence or nature of a thing.” (Plato and Aristotle both condemned homosexual acts.) Marriage is defined as “an objective metaphysical fact determined by its final cause, inherently procreative, and thus inherently heterosexual.”

FEDER BEGS READERS TO NOTE THAT “AT NO POINT SO FAR IN MY EXPOSITION OF NATURAL LAW THEORY IN GENERAL OR ITS APPROACH TO SEXUAL MORALITY IN PARTICULAR HAVE I APPEALED TO SCRIPTURE, OR TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS TEACHING, OR EVEN TO A PURELY OF PHILOSOPHICAL NOTION OF GOD.”…

“THE LAST SUPERSTITION” FLOWS WITH BONHOMIE AND GUSTO SIMILAR TO A RINGING ORATION…

George H. Kubeck