Tit-For-Tat = Dogmatic Entrenchment

Jason Wells @ [lab]oratory posts an interesting commentary on a current melee-a-brewing between atheists and Christians over on MySpace. Here is the issue from the article to which Jason refers:

Radical Christian hackers have been waging an online war against atheism.

The hackers repeatedly attacked MySpace's Atheist and Agnostics Group page, deleting groups and members and renaming the site 'Jesus is Love'.

MySpace shut down the group last month despite having promised to keep it up after earlier hack attacks.

The site was put back up in February, but some members are still being barred and some discussions are lost. MySpace has yet to comment on the issue.

"MySpace is running foul of existing laws on religious tolerance," said Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society.

Looks like tit-for-tat, juvenile whining, and further examples of why the entire idea that atheism today will one day resolve the "god thing", or that religions will simply cancel each other out and do away with God are frankly stupid assertions since the result is more intolerance and more hostility. The new atheist movement will only result in clearer dogmatic entrenchment for many Christians and that they do not see this is absurd.

But perhaps that is the goal by the so-called Four-Horsemen and others right? The more they can create this entrenchment, the more it appears to legitimate their claims. This only leads to more books sold, more speaking engagements, and more toxic "memes" to regulate the system itself. It is, in a real sense, something that regulates the consumption of reality and so, reconstitutes it under a new rubric to assess religion and religious behavior. That it reconstitutes and does not re-assess and analyze reality anymore creates something that is not really there under the terms specified. This is how hyper-reality is constructed and conflicts such as the aforementioned legitimate it as a norm.

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