Atheists can easily get caught up in a bizarre paradox.
Religion provides morality, or really it defines morality as “virtues”. It also defines amorality and anti-morality as sins, in particular “the seven deadly sins”.
So it is a simple progression from “denying God and religion” to denying the religious definition of morality and “virtues”. But this leaves a vacuum.
So as testament to their rejection, they try to embrace the *opposite* of virtues, sins.
1) Pride. The capital sin, in which people try to *replace* God and usurp His power. The idea that people can control the weather, the “environment”. In truth they tell themselves that they control, and even “create” reality itself.
2) Greed. The bottomless sin that can never be sated.
3) Lust. The desire to corrupt and demean the purity of others.
4) Gluttony. Luxury only being enjoyable when it can gaze on the starvation of others.
5) Wrath. The idea of improving your life by harming others.
6) Envy. The misery of not having what some others have.
7) Sloth. The desire that all you crave should be given to you without any labor or effort on your part.
These seven deadly sins have become the sacraments of the Democrat party. Democrats can now be seen as belonging to one or more “sin blocs”, since there is some overlap.
But it’s all a natural outgrowth of atheism.
Yep, I think that pretty much sums it up.
FWIW ...
1) Pride: A natural sense of self.
2) Greed: Exaltation of self.
3) Lust: An abandonment of self.
4) Gluttony: An impulse to self destruction.
5) Wrath: Stretched beyond limits.
6) Envy: Unknown to me.
7) Sloth: A false heaven.
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Atheist ... “A theist” ... Ha Ha ...