We All Worship Something
In a recent bonus episode of the Lions of Liberty podcast, I sat down with my pals Nate and Charlie from the Good Morning Liberty podcast for a fun episode in which we discussed, among other things, just what the “liberty movement” and/or Libertarian Party need to succeed. At one point the conversation shifted to belief systems, and the idea that there are more atheists than ever right now. I responded - as a former self-styled atheist - that I don’t believe atheists actually exist in practice.
Check out this clip where I touch on this concept.
One thing I have learned over the years is that everybody worships something - it is part of our human nature. I’m not going to postulate on why this is, but my lived experience has proven it time and time again. In fact, the most “atheist” period of my life is one where I was also the most evangelical about my worship at the time - that of the "Ron Paul Revolution.”
From 2007-2012 or so, supporting Ron Paul was my religion. Ask just about anyone who knew me at the time. I could not shut up about it. Every day of my life I would spend my free moments proselytizing for Ron Paul and his ideas. I felt a euphoric energy during the famous “Ron Paul Money Bombs” as the numbers went up, up, and up! My inner spirt moved when I found myself in a Ron Paul Church (“rally”) chanting the hymns of the religion with my fellow believers (“End the Fed! End the Fed!”).
So even as we see more “atheists” in the world today, we continue to see worship everywhere we go. “Tom Brady is a God” may sound like a hyperbolic statement, but in the religion of Football he IS a God. Franchises like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe make billions of dollars based on the religious level of worship of their fans. And we’ve all witnessed how the largely “atheist” progressive movement has come to follow the edicts of the COVID regime and the “Church of Woke.”
No matter what your opinion on any specific form of worship, it behooves us all to recognize that worship is ingrained in human DNA. Why, how? That’s something I’m trying to continue to understand every day. But acceptance is always the first step, and what self-professed “atheists” need to accept is that they are probably out there worshiping something (even if it’s just “rationality”), as are the people trying to impose their religious doctrines on you via the political system.
Atheism is a myth; and ironically enough embracing the concept of myth will be the only way to combat these “atheistic” religious systems that are embodied throughout our cultural and political systems.
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