What really happens when “children” run the world?
Children learn early on in life whether or not throwing temper tantrums and hissy fits will gain them what it is they want. Parents will either give in, or stand firm.
What ultimately becomes of the children whose parents give in, when they themselves grow into adulthood? What ultimately does the future hold for humanity, for society and human beings when irrationality and dangerous minds have gained control over reason and logic and are allowed to run rampant and unchecked and unchallenged? What happens the more we give in to the temper tantrums and hissy fits, in whatever form, thrown by adults with much more dangerous agendas than wanting something of a more insignificant value such as a cookie or a toy?
We are seeing those results right now. And while children who do throw temper tantrums and hissy fits, and do get their way time and time again, because their parents have not stood firm when they should have, do not necessarily grow up to be atheists or Muslim -
When atheists resort to throwing feces, real or fake, at a representational image of Jesus Christ, they have lost all credibility in their cause. (Their cause, in part, being to show how silly Christianity is and how silly, how “dangerous”, Christians are to everybody for believing in it.) Having denounced reason and logic (a cornerstone of free-thought) atheists rightly deserve to be mocked and excoriated for their own fanatical behavior. Monkeys throw feces. When atheists throw feces at religious images for whatever irrational reason or intent, when they feel compelled to immerse or submerge a religious image in a jar of urine, calling it art, they devolve back into the monkeys from whence they came. They are certainly no better, no smarter, no more intellectually adept than a monkey.
When Muslims resort to offering rewards for the capture of an Israeli soldier, for the purpose of using it as leverage to gain the release of more Palestinian prisoners, they too have shown, and continue to show, a lack of credibility and how worthless their cause is. (Their cause, in large part, to show that Islam is the one true religion, the religion of “peace”, that Allah is “greatest” and anyone who rejects that are “infidels” and need to be killed.) Muslims, having themselves denounced reason and logic, (which has not been a cornerstone of their religion for nearly a thousand years) and embraced violence and murder, also deserve to be mocked and excoriated for their own fanatical behavior.
When Christians act in irrational and dangerous ways, atheists lose no time in mocking and excoriating them. Whether it is Pat Robertson saying something stupid, or the Westboro Baptist Church crashing funerals, and going all the way back to the Inquisition (which is used heavily in the debate against religion, and Christianity in particular) there is no shortage of documentation showing the temper tantrums and hissy fits Christians throw.
The difference being, Christians, by in large, have grown up and become the parents they need to be. Whether atheist, Muslim or Christian, only a small minority of people within each group is causing problems for the whole. Of the three, only Christians have the courage and the tenacity to scold, condemn and rebuke the “Pat Robertsons” within their religious fold – and they do it very openly.
Where are the voices in the atheist community to parent those atheists who feel they need to throw temper tantrums? Where are the voices in the Muslim community to parent those Muslims who feel they need to throw temper tantrums? (Obviously the “temper tantrums” thrown by atheists are more on par, clownish, with those thrown by the Westboro Baptist Church and not on the level as those thrown by Muslims. However, their goals are the same. Both atheists and Muslims want attention and they want to get their way.)
If both atheists and Muslims have a desire to be taken seriously, how does what they are doing justify our respect? In other words, what does it mean if we actually do take seriously the atheist that throws feces at, or otherwise defaces, a religious image; if we actually do take seriously the Muslim who engages in terrorism, homicide bombings, and offering rewards for the capture of Israeli soldiers for the purpose of negotiating a trade off? And what happens if we actually gave in to the Westboro Baptist Church?
It means we legitimize unprovoked violence and irrational behavior – temper tantrums. It means we live in a world devoid of laws and rules, and respect. If we allow people to do whatever they want and get away with it, unchallenged, because we either fear the retaliation or have no stomach to endure the hissy fits, it means we allow the yellers, the screamers, the whiners and complainers, the ones who flail their arms and legs about, as children do, whether they throw feces or grenades, to be in charge of the world and dictate to the rest of us – who do act with restraint, as parents and adults – how the world will operate.
How long can the world survive when “children” run and “operate” it on feces and grenades?
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