Democrats go all in for atheism; sort of

The DNC has passed a resolution lauding the "nones"; the religiously unaffiliated.

Atheists are shouting cheers of joy. The only problem is most "nones" believe in God.

While atheists and Pew are desperately trying to convince us that 23% of Americans don't believe in God the reality is far different. Using Pew's own data we find that only 3% of Americans say that they're atheists, 4% said they are agnostic and the rest of the "nones" believe in some type of God or higher power.  Most the "nones" are "nones" because they're not affiliated with a specific church or denomination.

Here's how the resolution ends:

1. The value, ethical soundness, and importance of the religiously unaffiliated demographic, a group of Americans who contribute in innumerable ways to the arts, sciences, medicine, business, law, the military, their communities, the success of the Party and prosperity of the nation; and
2. That religiously unaffiliated Americans are a group that, as much as any other, advocates for rational public policy based on sound science and universal humanistic values and should be represented, included, and heard by the Party.

 There are problems with this.  Atheists don't believe in objective morality so that they believe, for example, that raping children isn't objectively and always wrong.  Now they don't support raping children but that's because they've inherited their morality from the Christian society they grew up in.

Another problem is that there are no "universal humanistic values".  The only atheist societies in the history of the world, the various communist regimes, pushed values, like the mass murder of dissidents, that few American atheists would support.  Atheism can't support universal values because if atheists are right then the only source of moral guidance are people and people disagree about what is right.  For example Southerners in the US in 1859 generally believed that slavery was an ok thing; something that, thanks be to God, we reject.  There is no superman who can objectively decide which men are right and which are wrong in the atheists universe and hence there can be no "universal" values.

The full resolution is here but this part shows the real purpose of this resolution; throwing out the 1st Amendment and eliminating religious liberty:

WHEREAS, the nonreligious have often been subjected to unfair bias and exclusion in American society, particularly in the areas of politics and policymaking where assumptions of religiosity have long predominated; and
WHEREAS, those most loudly claiming that morals, values, and patriotism must be defined by their particular religious views have used those religious views, with misplaced claims of “religious liberty,” to justify public policy that has threatened the civil rights and liberties of many Americans, including but not limited to the LGBT community, women, and ethnic and religious/nonreligious minorities; and
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party is an inclusive organization that recognizes that morals, values, and patriotism are not unique to any particular religion, and are not necessarily reliant on having a religious worldview at all;

What's interesting here is that the DNC is declaring that all Christian values are bad and that Christian values must always submit to leftist values on issue like gay marriage.

It's no accident that the DNC put religious liberty in scare quotes; they clearly hate the fact that most of society isn't on board with their hedonistic agenda.

This is one more step in the Democrats effort to silence people of faith and to effectively eliminate the First Amendment.

What this screed lacks is the self awareness that if there is no God then the moral beliefs of Christians are no better or no worse than that of atheists.  There is no way to show, in an atheist universe, that their attitudes towards gays etc are better than that of Christians.  Yet the resolution clearly says that the atheist morality is the correct morality.

The unstated assumption is that total freedom to do anything is always better than any sort of restriction. But that's not in fact something that works when tried in societies.

It's interesting to note that atheism is a faith based belief system; ie a religion remember that Buddhism is a religion but Buddhists don't believe in a god. Atheists can't show the the Bible is wrong or that God isn't necessary to explain anything in the universe; they accept those and many other things based solely on their faith.

What we see here is not just a repudiation of religious liberty but the establishment of a state "church" which is given special privileges and which uses the power of government to oppress all other faith based belief systems.