Discovering Patterns in RRRW Conspiracy Theories.
The RRRW has long used fear and exaggeration as tactics to motivate their base because they work. Their problem is that they have a little creativity problem. Case in point is the following laundry list of ways in which Godless Atheists are a horrific threat to life as they know it in America.
Are Godless Atheists a Threat to America?:
Christian Right attacks on atheists have helped ensure that atheists remain the most despised minority in America. These attacks are not a series of isolated criticisms; instead, they are integrated and coordinated. Taken together these attacks effectively portray godless atheists as involved in a conspiracy against America, American values, and Christianity. Atheists have no respect for traditions, for values, for religion, or for anything that makes America what it is.
Godless Atheists Are Enormously Powerful, if Few in Number:
Every good conspiracy theory needs a powerful enemy to fight and atheists are no different. The number of irreligious people in America continues to grow, but the number of open atheists continues to be relatively small; despite these numbers, however, godless atheists are portrayed as wielding incredible power over society, culture, and politics…Godless Atheists are a Threat to the Children:
Good conspiracy theories also need to be framed as cause to protect the innocent and vulnerable children — people are willing to do almost anything to protect children, it seems. It’s only natural, then, that atheists are often depicted as a threat to America’s children: they are infiltrating the schools, for example, to drive God out and they are corrupting the entertainment industry in order to corrupt the nation’s youth as well.
Amazing how similar those sound to the claims the RRRW makes about LGBTs. LGBTs are involved in a conspiracy against American values and have no respect for decency. Although a tiny minority LGBTs are an incredibly wealthy and powerful group. In particular, LGBTs are infiltrating America’s schools to “recruit” and to portray their behavior as normal and acceptable. It’s almost as if the same writer is creating both scripts.
Godless Atheists Poison Society:
Of course, it’s not just the children who are be threatened by the godless atheist menace, it’s all of society. Godless atheists are driving God out of the public square, out of government, and out of every place else in American culture. The fact that God either never was or never really belonged in these places isn’t addressed. Instead, all that matters is that atheists are undermining what it means to be an American and undermining America itself.…..
Godless Atheists’ Stubbornness is a Sign of the Evil:
If godless atheists were reasonable people, they wouldn’t be so stubborn when confronted with the obvious truth of Christianity — they’d just convert. At least, that appears to be the conclusion which many Christians hold about atheists. The circular nature of the argument complete misses them — they act as though every reasonable person would instantly convert to Christianity if simply given a chance. The fact that atheists don’t is taken to demonstrate their evil intentions.
Yes, LGBTs infect all of society with their tawdry behavior. We’re on the TV now, walking out in public holding hands with each other and even wearing clothing that denotes our orientation. It’s Sodom and Gomorrah all over again! It’s just our stubborn refusal to accept God’s word and subject ourselves to his will. If only we’d stop being such sinful perverts.
Godless Atheists Should be Segregated:
In the past, minorities accused of conspiring against the majority have been segregated — Jews were confined to ghettos in Europe, for example. Such physical segregation isn’t politically feasible in modern America, but other types of segregation are pursued. Political segregation is achieved, for example, by excluding atheists from political discourse and insisting that they sit down, shut up, and stop saying things that upset Christians.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been told to sit down and be quiet about my “rights” lest I lose the election for the Dems, or because people are sick of hearing about them, or because it’s only making the RRRW fight harder against us, etc. Some of it is cognitive dissonance, of course, but the rest is blind hatred.
Godless Atheists Invite Divine Wrath:
Perhaps to assuage some guilt for their efforts to deny atheists equal respect and tolerance, Christian conservatives insist that atheists’ actions put everyone at risk because God is likely to punish the entire nation for the atheists’ actions. Thus God sends hurricanes as punishment for tolerance of homosexuals and wildfires as punishment for abortion. God only wants the best for America, that’s why so many innocents are killed to punish America for tolerating atheistic ideologies.
LGBTs have caused countless hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and floods as well as the deaths of Iraqi soldiers. At least that’s the case if you listen to the ramblings of various blowhard RRRW preachers. All that power and we still can’t get marriage rights.
I believe the RRRW conspiracy theorists need to come up with some new material. Their repetitiveness has become obvious and downright boring. I hear the Hollywood writers have nothing to do at the moment. Perhaps they’d be up for the task.
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