Back when I was an Atheist, I noticed some things about Atheists and Atheism in general that were hard to square up rationally. These over-the-line positions by Atheists led me to ask "just what is rational, and what is logical". And specifically "how do atheists justify their positions, if they are not rational?"
The most obvious issue then and now is abortion. Justifying the death of a human at the prenatal stage is done by the claim of "women's rights". Yet, why does a woman not have the right to abort at 8 1/2 months? Or at the instant of birth? Or beyond? Atheist ethicists such as Peter Singer now claim that very right for up to several months post-partum. This is just euthanasia and eugenics in new face paint. Abortion support is the tacit suspension of morality. And under Atheism, it is their privilege to do so.
This leads directly to the issue of ethics vs. morality, and the Atheist use of ethics to scuttle morality. "Ethics" is the subjective determination of a personal view of the characteristics of virtue. The Atheist has denied absolute morality, and is self-anointed to determine his own ethic. Because he has determined what is "true" for himself, he is able to either ignore other non-congruent ethics, or to try to force them into his personal position of ethical "virtue".
The second issue is the source of Atheist "moral outrage" at the existence of non-Atheist values in society. In fact, having denied morality the Atheist has no foundation for moral outrage at anything. And conversely the Atheist demands tolerance of his own personal ethic while expressing moral outrage at all others. The issue of Atheist ethics decorates the instability and irrationality of the Atheist thought process.
For this reason I will be posting a series of articles on the subject of reason; the process of reason; and the subversion of reason. I have already posted the first principles.
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