Fear of secularism

Across the pond we see secularism at its utmost strength in the world. I wonder why.

I wonder if it's because they have had quite enough of the intermingling of church and state. After all, they have been through quite a bit of religious persecution in the past.

We can not say that of the United States (unless you want to count Native and African Americans, to name two).

We have had no overt religious pogroms. Not in the way dished out to the European peons during which religion held sway within the state.

Are we heading down that road? A road of intolerance? Instead of pagans and witches has the torched been turned upon atheists, secular humanists and free-thinkers? Sounds like a radical question I know, yet I think it's worthy of pondering.

What is this phobia, this hatred (it seems at times) motivated by?

The shaking of foundation.

Toppling of something so elusive, yet so real in the minds of the indoctrinated that it seems apparent the world is falling apart because of secularism. After all that is what Xtianity has become. Evangelical. Spreading the "word" of "god". Without which faith is useless and pointless. And if such a thing were realized...what a depressing world it would be indeed. Really? Not for me. Far from the contrary. I've pretty much been agnostic throughout my life and never a committed believer, but since rejecting religion I find my life oh so much easier. I couldn't imagine the "true" believer coming over to atheism. I can't really imagine such a weight lifted from their shoulders.

Back to shaking the foundations.

I think that what we are seeing are the death throes of religious dogma today. An upsurge if you will, with religion spying its demise.

Granted I am toying with wishful thought, but with the coming of the internet and free flow of hearts and minds as opposed to being force fed psychological garbage, humanity has become ever more democratised. There is no "he said, she said" much any more. Often times you can go right to the source now. I think that that scares people. Especially people that are afraid to know their fellow human being.

I don't know how many times I have come across a statement referring to atheists as being afraid. Of god. How could atheists be afraid of something they don't believe in? On the contrary. Believers it seems are the most afraid. Of everything that does not fall in line with whichever doctrine has been instilled onto them.

I'm not afraid of much of anything. Especially (as a friend of mine likes to say) a Cosmic McMuffin.

With due inference believers have a whole lot to fear from other than god. Not of persecution by secularists but by the whittling away of falsehoods and fraud they have been fed for centuries.

That would be a very hard thing to confront.