Stupid Quote of the Day: Secularism leads to witchcraft, sez Supercrank

Vox Day seems to be quite blind to both irony and hypocrisy. His latest post (which, for the record, is not the immediate focus of this post) is a long screed against a commenter at his blog who disagreed with what he said and whom Vox accuses of using logical fallacies, thus looking like an idiot. I wouldn’t know about that, as my instinct for self-preservation keeps me away from such filthy hives as Vox Day’s post comments, but it’s just amusing to note how he wrote lengthily, almost passionately, about not making logical fallacies when criticizing him, when the very preceding post he made contains nothing but fallacies and pure, condensed, rocket-grade dumbassery:

As I have repeatedly warned, post-Christianity isn't necessarily that shiny, sexy, secular science fiction society that so many atheists fantasize about. Secularism is merely a transition phase from civilization to barbarism:

Witch doctors in Uganda have admitted their part in human sacrifice amid concerns that the practice is spreading in the African country.... The African country's government claimed human sacrifice was on the increase. According to officials trying to tackle it, the crime is directly linked to rising levels of development and prosperity - and an increasing belief that witchcraft can help people get rich quickly.

It is all to telling that so many clueless atheists are more worried about prospective Ugandan laws banning homosexuality than they are about the rise of human sacrifice! And it's interesting to see yet another example smashing the progressive notion that rising levels of development and prosperity will suffice to create a more civilized society.

Sometimes, I wonder how it’s even possible for anyone remotely intelligent – and sane enough not to be in a mental institution – to write such things. It’s beyond stupid; it becomes nothing short of painful to read. (Hence the never-more-appropriate pic at the top.)

The first point is how Vox somehow equates a secular, nonreligious society, to witch hunts and human sacrifices. To put it plainly, this has got to be the single largest non sequitur I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Seriously: no-one, not even a retarded six-year-old, can read something like this and not realize how utterly demented it sounds within five seconds. The very point of witchcraft, the type mentioned here, is that it includes a very highly religious component to it. I’ve already commented on the practice of witch hunts in Africa, especially those aimed towards innocent children, all a practice for preachers and witch hunters to get bleed money from those they claim to help whilst spreading nothing but pain and death. Now, guess which religion is behind all this? You guessed it: Christianity.

Second of all, the Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill goes far further than simply “banning homosexuality”, as Vox so simplistically and disingenuously claims. It makes being gay, or being caught having gay sex, punishable by death (or, at best, lifetime imprisonment), and anyone who defends gays or tries to hide gay people are to be thrown behind bars for years. I’ve commented on the bill and the sheer brutal inhumanity in it; it’s mind-blowing.

Vox also makes it a point to try and claim that atheists (read: “non-Christians”, I’m sure) care more about keeping homosexuality legalized, or something, than they care about human sacrifices, which is nothing more than a strawman argument (and a particularly stupid one at that). Again, this makes absolutely no sense. The point is that in both cases (Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill and the African witch hunts and human sacrifices), innocent people are slaughtered for the sake of ignorance and intolerance, with a sizeable infusion of religion (ie. Christianity) in both. Sorry, Vox, but you won’t get away with making illogical assumptions and ridiculously false arguments, here.

Of course, the final thing to note is how Vox seems to take it that these horrors regarding witch hunts and human sacrifices have anything to do with secularism and progressiveness. When secularism and progressiveness are the very ideologies that aim at repelling such vile, inhumane concepts.

Religion, especially Vox’s fetish faith, Christianity, is not the key to a civilized society. It never has been, and only the historically ignorant and logically inept can claim so. There has been no single greater creator of war, bloodshed, violence and intolerance than the Christian faith along its 2,000-year rampage through history. Eliminating it – and all other religions, of course – wouldn’t solve everything. No-one claims it would, either. But it would certainly give people far fewer incentives to commit acts of inhumanity and brutality against others, if religious differences and religious extremism are factored out.