Would you like God with that?

The trouble with vocal atheists like Dawkins and Hitchens, according to Sukie, is that they preach to the converted; they offer absolutely nothing as a replacement for the warm fuzzies that religions offer; and they are far too late to stop the juggernaut of religiosity that will some day soon lead to McDonald’s staff asking us if we would like God with our burgers.

"Dawkins and Hitchens and others of their ilk provide absolutely no kind of alternative for the warm and fuzzy side benefits offered by the theist belief systems,” says Sukie, “and that is only to be expected because they are intellectuals, upper middle class and have no inkling whatsoever of what life is like for the rest of society – lonely kids, the unemployed, the working poor, the sick and the aged.”

“That’s why, I suppose,” says Sukie, “that they preach, if that’s the right word, to the converted – people like themselves.”

“Atheism is a belief system that suits young, wealthy, healthy and hedonistic people,” says Sukie. “It’s logically correct, no two ways about that, but it has never been, nor will it ever become, an ‘organization’ capable of providing the huge good works that the religious organizations do.”

“If the atheists wish for a rational society, free from religious bigotry,” says Sukie, “then they should put their money where their mouth is and start providing the sort of services that society needs (the sort of services that are now provided by the religious organizations).”