”The fact is that fundamentalist Christians and radical Muslims are not interested in coexisting or getting along. They have no desire for peace. They do not want to sit down with us in diplomatic efforts to iron out our differences and come to an agreement on developing an integrated society.
”They want us to die.
”Their interpretation of the Bible and Koran are such that there is no other course of action but to kill the infidel, and if anyone believes otherwise they are only fooling themselves. It is not just in the best interests of atheists to be intolerant of fundamental Christianity and radical Islam, but it is also in the best interest of mainstream believers within these faiths, as well. Moderates and even Progressives who stand in support of extremists just because there is a claim to the same deity are not doing themselves any favors. Fundamental Christians make all Christians look bad and radical Muslims make all Muslims look bad.
”The growing ranks of fundamental Christians and radical Muslims should be of concern to everyone who is not part of these two groups. Everyone. Again, bigotry, discrimination, hatred, coercion, terrorism, slavery, misogyny and everything else that is part and parcel of fundamental Christianity and radical Islam should not be tolerated and anyone who agrees with this needs to adopt extremist points of view that includes the intolerance of their very existence. The only reason these groups exist is because they are allowed to, and we, as a society, are allowing them to...
”But the underbelly of fundamentalist Christianity and radical Islam does not operate in the legal system. They don’t respond to lawsuits, letters, amicus briefs or other grass-roots campaigns and they must, must, must be eradicated. As long as they are allowed to exist, we will continue to be inundated with accounts of buses, buildings, markets and abortion clinics being blown up, rape victims being murdered for adultery, wives being beaten (sometimes to death), airplanes being flown into buildings, people being tortured and sometimes beheaded for blasphemy, people being burned for witchcraft and sorcery and all the other horrific, inhumane and insane practices that are part of fundamental Christianity and Radical Islam.
”If we don’t take a stand and, as a society, insist that these doctrines and beliefs are treated just the same as they would be if religion were not part of the equation, we will become extinct not due to natural selection, but at the hands of those who believe that the supernatural has made the selection.”
Santelli wrote a follow-on article, claiming that everyone misunderstood his call for eradication, yet saying, ”I make no apologies for my words”. He then quotes Dawkins’ famous diatribe against God as if Dawkins has been endowed with some sort of ethical god-ship himself. And he tops it off with Hitchens’ statement in which he confuses organized religion with Atheist Soviet Russia:
”Organised religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.”Again, indicative of the massive Atheist assaults on humanity of the 20th century. But that is just a Tu Quoque, even though it is true; is Hitchens right? For a start, Hitchens universally condemns all “Organised reliegion” with unsupported designations, designations into categories of evil. This is typical of Atheist psychopathic rantings by those who haven’t been in a church, possibly ever, yet fully self-enabled to condemn what they have created in their minds – stalking horses to engender fear in the religiously ignorant, including themselves.
― Christopher Hitchens
Let’s repeat part of Santelli’s diatribe, above, just for a quick analysis:
”…buses, buildings, markets and abortion clinics being blown up, rape victims being murdered for adultery, wives being beaten (sometimes to death), airplanes being flown into buildings, people being tortured and sometimes beheaded for blasphemy, people being burned for witchcraft and sorcery and all the other horrific, inhumane and insane practices that are part of fundamental Christianity…
With the exception of the murder of two (?) abortionists, not one of these things is descriptive of even the most radically fundamental Christians, or sect offshoots; and the murders were not done by groups of Christians, they were individual actions outside of any church whatsoever and without sanction of any “organized religion”. From this might we conclude that Santelli is irrational? Or perhaps merely an ideological liar? From his denial of miswriting his accusations, maybe he is both.
