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Harvard Prof. Blames Christianity’s ‘Malignant’ Belief in Afterlife for Lockdown Protests


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Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker said Thursday that the push for reopening society from lockdowns comes from Christianity’s “malignant delusion” of belief in an afterlife.

Atheists who believe in this life alone are more concerned with health and safety, Professor Pinker suggested in a Tweet, while Christians tend to devalue “actual lives” and live a riskier existence.:snip:

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On 5/24/2020 at 5:50 AM, Geee said:
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Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker said Thursday that the push for reopening society from lockdowns comes from Christianity’s “malignant delusion” of belief in an afterlife.

 

And I'm Very Sure He Has Some Absolutely Brilliant Proofs.

 

One wonders if the good doctor understands that Christianity (with all those “malignant delusion”) is (along with Rome & Greece) that he lives in the richest freest society in 6000 years, and can say mind blowingly ignorant things?

  What this is, is Pinker trying to make amends for his last two books and get back in the good graces of his colleagues in academe.    

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The Lockdown, Evangelicals and the Afterlife: A Response to an atheist Harvard prof

Dennis Prager

May 26, 2020

(Snip)

Before responding to Pinker's remarkably ignorant tweet, I want to praise him. He is one of the few professors in America to call out the left's destruction of our universities.

Most human beings lack courage, but no group is more cowardly than academics. This has been true for 100 years. From the German universities to today, professors have almost never taken a position that required courage. Indeed, one might say that when you send your child to college, your child is taught to be a coward by the cowardly.

Two years ago, Pinker wrote:

"Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance, with non-leftist speakers drowned out by jeering mobs, professors subjected to Stalinesque investigations for unorthodox opinions, risible guidelines on 'microaggressions' (such as saying 'I believe the most qualified person should get the job'), students mobbing and cursing a professor who invited them to discuss Halloween costumes, and much else. These incidents have drawn worldwide ridicule, and damage the credibility of university scientists and scholars when they weigh on critical matters, such as climate change."

(Snip)

And as regards the "malignant" charge, while there are, obviously, good individuals who are atheist, atheism is morally worthless. It makes no moral demands, whereas Judaism and Christianity posit a G od who demands people obey, for example, the Ten Commandments. Atheism demands nothing; it only destroys the Judeo-Christian bases of morality in Western civilization, the civilization that gave the world democracy, liberty, women's equality and an end to slavery.

In fact, evangelical Christians are the greatest defenders of Western civilization, while Pinker's atheist colleagues at Harvard and elsewhere are the most active opponents of Western civilization. How does Pinker explain that? Which exactly is the "malignant delusion"?

Finally, evangelical Christians and other religious opponents of the continuing lockdown do not oppose continuation of the irrational, fear-driven, life-destroying lockdown — projected to result in more deaths worldwide and even in parts of America than the coronavirus itself — because of our belief in the afterlife. This is both stupid and a smear. It shows how even a Steven Pinker can be rendered foolish by atheism.

No one who actually knows evangelicals believes they oppose continuation of the lockdown because they value life less than secular proponents of continuing this lockdown.

(Snip)

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On a Related note............

Atheism/Materialism/Naturalism (whatever) Makes a great deal of common sense, for about 5 minutes (10 minutes if you're not that bright). After that it comes down to I don't want there to be a God (ie you're not the boss of me). That and around 99% of those you meet on social media really only have Bumper Stickers not any Real ideas. Atheism is also (it seems to me) Extremely depressing, IF they really thought about it, and Really believed it...they'd eat a bullet because what difference does it make.

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