Zuckerman and the Pursuit of Atheist "Morality"

Phil Zuckerman On Atheism:
"Atheism, Secularity, and Well-Being:
How the Findings of Social Science Counter Negative Stereotypes and Assumptions

”The above information reveals that atheists and secular people have very clear and pronounced values and beliefs concerning moral, political, and social issues. As Lynn Nelson (1988, 134) has concluded, religiously unaffiliated people ‘‘have as well-defined a sense of social justice as weekly churchgoers.’’ But I would go farther. I would argue that a strong case could be made that atheists and secular people actually posses a stronger or more ethical sense of social justice than their religious peers. After all, when it comes to such issues as the governmental use of torture or the death penalty, we see that atheists and secular people are far more merciful and humane. When it comes to protecting the environment, women’s rights, and gay rights, the non-religious again distinguish themselves as being the most supportive. And as stated earlier, atheists and secular people are also the least likely to harbor ethnocentric, racist, or nationalistic attitudes. Strange then, that so many people assume that atheists and non-religious people lack strong values or ethical beliefs – a truly groundless and unsupportable assumption.”

Zuckerman is attempting to make a case for Atheist morality, by using the elitist ideology of "Social Justice". What he actually does is to confirm the obvious, which is that Atheists support elitist, top-down declarations of subjective principles concerning the ideology of Victimhood/Messiahism vs. The Oppressor Class. For example, he lists the environment, women’s rights and gay rights, each of which is purely a Victimhood Classification designed by the Messiahs for their own benefit.

Protecting the environment was previously called conservationism; almost everyone was conservation-conscious and responsible (save certain ethnic groups). When the environment became designated Victimhood status by the Messiahs, conservation gave way to bitter defamatory and financial attacks on the designated Oppressors of the victimized environment. False data such as the case against DDT was brandished by the environmentalists like righteous weapons of deities. That is when responsible people backed away. The salvation of Gaia became both perverted and profitable.

Women have every right that men do. Men cannot kill their offspring; but currently women can and do. So women’s rights is a phony cause, involving the right to kill, disguised as “choice” and “privacy”. It is a falsely designated Victimhood Category by the putative Messiahs.

Gays have every right to pursue their personal proclivities, except that instead of contractual obligations to each other, they want the patina of legal legitimization afforded to marriage by the government. In order to do that, marriage itself must be de-legitimized and forced to accept all associations as marriageable, without boundaries. Boundaries are like other restrictions: they represent intolerance. In a short time span, marriage will become a meaningless term, legally. Further, most violence on gays is by other gays; lesbian violence is especially high. AIDs was visited on gays by gays.

Further it is stated that, “ethnocentric, racist, or nationalistic attitudes” are more prevalent in theists. That is beyond merely doubtful, if one considers including all and every Atheist on the planet. Zuckerman and friends are infamous for not doing this, but by selectively declaring Atheist characteristics to be as they exist in selected locales only. If one includes Russia and China, the claim is seen to be false. Therefore it is proof of the bias inherent in Zuckerman’s claims.

"Strange then, that so many people assume that atheists and non-religious people lack strong values or ethical beliefs – a truly groundless and unsupportable assumption.”"

Zuckerman has proven to himself, at least, the tight bond between Leftist principles and Atheism. When one takes upon himself the mantle of moral authority, he moves straight into Leftism and the Three Class System which Zuckerman inadvertently acknowledges. In fact he not only acknowledges it, he insists that the Three Class System makes for "strong values or ethical beliefs"; and that is the case, but they do not represent actual morals. The Three Class System is not designed as behavioral restrictions on the two classes of Victimhood or Messiahs; it represents intolerance for any restrictions from the Other, the Oppressor Class, and immediate punishment even for the suggestion of such. The Victimhood and Messiah Classes have no moral or ethical restrictions; if a tactic works, then it is moral/ethical, as defined by Alinsky. Thus the belief system touted by Zuckerman is the inversion of a set of moral principles. It is behavioral anarchy for us, and behavioral restrictions for the Other.

So Zuckerman's implication that Atheism is a moral, caring, ethical belief system is false, according to to actual evidence, and despite anyone's claim to the contrary.