Never A True Atheist

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One of the many reasons I joined Team Atheist is because Team Belief can never ever admit they are wrong or something is not their fault. Hell, God/Jesus is always innocent and if anything bad ever happens then an entirely different being, Satan, is to blame. To be so called innocent forever and ever is impossible and it takes away from the part of humanity, while not easy to admit, where we are with err, where we all have lapses in judgment and make mistakes. You can, Man up and take responsibility for your actions, or you can sidestep that and claim....Satan did it (super lame). It is illogical and irrational, but I guess that is what religion is.

The headline says a prominent atheist blogger converts to Catholicism and that instantly got my attention. Y'all know I had to read that article. Over at Patheos the blogger Leah Libresco, after debating many "smart Christians" for years and years (I've never heard of her until today), has called it quits and her blog "Unequally yoked: A geeky atheist picks fights with her Catholic boyfriend" has gone to atheist blog heaven. Now her blog has been resurrected and it is called "A geeky convert picks fights in good faith." Why?

Just the good ol' where does morality come from-n-moral compass kinda shit. "I had one thing I was most certain of, which is that morality is something we have a duty to. And it is external from us. And when push came to shove, that is the belief I wouldn't let go of. And that is something I can't prove (the former atheist blogger named Leah)."

Wow, fucking wow. Where do I start. First of all...Catholicism. Really. Really.     Really. It seems more likey that an atheist would convert to a deist-y God than a specific God. If the atheist philosopher Anthony Flew really did convert on his death bed (it's been debated), it was to a first cause God, not a specific one. Of all the religions Leah choose to believe in she chose the one that believes in specific stuff like the Trinity, resurrection, end of times and heaven. To go from simply believing that the probability that any God exists is very low to believing that a specific God exists, outta so many, well...it's mind boggling illogical-n-irrational.

Eye can haz funnziez hats. In the name of the Lord, meow.

I wonder to what extent was she an atheist. What was her rating on the Dawkins scale. How much does she know about philosophy, the sciences, occams razor and critical thinking skills. I'll be the first one to admit that me personally am not an expert at anything (still degreeless after all these years), but I think that even a little bit of evidence (or lack of) and introspection overwhelmingly points to atheism as the truthful and correct position. You don't halfta have a Phd in ancient history, like Richy Carrier, to be on the team, but you halfta know something. If she examined a good amount of evidence and she came to the conclusion that the Catholic God is the one true God, hey man, hats of to her.

I could be wrong about this one but...She now believes that ethics and morals come from the heavens above, beamed down in God's laser of morality, and specifically, only thru the Catholic God is this possible. This is what I believe.

She said that morals are "external." I believe that they are internal and that they happen naturally like emotions happen naturally. We can all be scared, feel great or dookie. We can all be happy or sad. That happens naturally. God didn't give you the color of your eyes, genetics gave you the color of your eyes. God didn't shoot the laser of love from the skies to give you ethics and morals, it happened automatically when you were born.

Mommy, how come you have blue eyes and I have brown eyes. Shut up and eat your dinner.

Just like everything else, it is a product of evolution. When Team Human, aghhh, teamed up and started the collective know as, Hunter/Gather'ers things like reciprocal altruism, empathy, cooperation and kindness came about. Before that it probably was (the misused and incorrect term) survival of the fittest and/or everyperson for your self.  If I killed a woolly mammoth then that shit was mine, yo. Until perhaps cave dude had a lady friend that he would share food with, that way he could get in on that (wink wink) and it was more likely that they would survive and their genes could go on to the next generation. Perhaps they started working with others because there is safety in numbers and the probability that a group of peeps, working together, can successfully do the hunting thang is greater than if one were to work alone.

When the shift went to agricultural happened then the tasks of the community became more specific and important. Perhaps some were better at hunting, or better at tending the crops, or gathering. All the while the philosophy of if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours became more and more important. Working together, and succeeding, is where ethics and morals came from. The ones that did not want to work in the group dynamic had a harder time of surviving and thriving. If you were a cavewoman hottie who would you choose, the dude that doesn't have any woolly mammoth to eat because he works alone, or the group of people that do have mammoth burgers and are not only surviving, but thriving. Natural selection weeded out the NOT cooperation gene, while the teamwork/cooperation gene became more and more prevalent. Perhaps.

It's either that, or God beams down morals to us puny humans, otherwise we would not have morals, cooperation, kindness, altruism, empathy, because the classic God did it.

I Googled "God doing it" for this one.

I don't mind that this person converted to Catholicism, in fact I wish her luck on her journey.  WTF do I care if she believes or not (just as long as she is not harming anyone and herself).  It just seems illogical to me. One day you are on Team Reason and Team Atheist and the next day you believe in a one true God and that without that specific God then there are no morals.

They always say it to us, so I'm going to say it right now. Leah was never a true atheist.

I was gonna write about self flagellation around the world, but it was too gross. Poor  religious baby.

* Patheos. Really good hub site for everything belief-y.

* Leah's new blog. Good luck, girl.

* I think it comes down to faith in reason or faith in faith.