I've made a few posts about atheist apologist, but no neo-atheist I've heard about is as radical as Michel Onfray, a British author of Atheist Manifesto who argues some very troubling things. In his mind, if Christianity must fall, so must its value system. For example, its reverence for human life must be abandoned. Societies should have no qualms about infanticide and abortion. Also, free will has to go. He writes, "The child rapist is free…In his soul and conscience, endowed with a free will permitting him to prefer one option over another, he chooses violence—when he could have decided otherwise. . . . Who would even countenance a hospital locking up a man or a woman diagnosed with a brain tumor—no more of a free choice than a pedophilic fixation."
One wonders if he believes in any morality at all if he argues that child rapists should not be locked up. It's also unclear to me if human life is not sacred why murder should be illegal.
Will these atheist philosophies prevail? What will society look like if they do? I shudder to think.
