Why am I concerned? I'm concerned because it's growth in
popularity. With popularity comes power. With power comes
responsibility over people. With responsibility over people
comes humanistic values or absolutist values or some mix
inbetween. Absolutism can be very dangerous. It's not today's
Internet atheists I worry about. It is the grandchildren of
today's Internet atheists. It is Generation Z and the one coming
to an Internet that finds it ok to mock other human beings. This
isn't the Internet I started with. This isn't the humanistic
values I grew up with. These will be the people that will
eventually be in power and they are and will grow up on the
Internet they are receiving and its value systems expressed by
the people on it. This is why it's important to me. Past the age
of 7, parental influence is minimal. It's peers after that.
Peers include virtual peers like TV and the Internet and all of
the people they encounter on it and all of the Memes they see.
This is why I am concerned. Today's ways will die out. People
are being raised on the Internet TODAY. Some of those people
will be in power later and make decisions. What kind of value
system will they hold when they do so? Humanistic values?
Nihlistic values? Absolutist values? This is why I'm concerned.
== Also, notice what I wrote: It has little to do with atheism
at all. I know plenty of non-atheists who are just like that.
I'm not even defending Christians per se. I'm talking about the
tendency to people to automatically believe things about groups
they don't like. That's a bad thing. It's a bad thing.
