Thomas Aquinas: “For those with faith, no evidence is necessary;
for those without it, no evidence will suffice.”
Aristotle: "Evil destroys even itself."
Immanuel Kant: "Science proper is based upon a priori knowledge of natural things."
Karl Popper: "All knowledge remains fallible, conjectural."

In some quarters, there is a belief which I would like in 2026 to somewhat defend as an atheist, that the rise of liberal totalitarianism and the universal descent of Western values of absolute right and wrong, are under threat by the loss of Christian faith, see, TCN, Walter E Williams, Candace Owens, Vincent Everett Ellison and others. Now the problem here, of course, is, though the idea is probably in part correct, Christians are less than a quarter of the population of the world and only 60 percent of the population of America.  So here the prejudice of Christianity, (and all formal religions in their geographical arenas), is they have a hard time sharing important commonalities and values; i.e., what of the Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and the others throughout our Western societies? Indeed what about the conservative and Libertarian unbelievers in the West; people like me who just can’t see it that way, for one reason or another?

In the Hegelians and their predecessors, the Platonists,
There is a presupposition to Nous, Human Soul, God, the Absolute Spirit, etcetera,
To ones like these (alleged) philosophers.
There is no reality to them except what they presuppose.
So when they search for supernaturalism, they surely find it.
Is it a compulsory fiction or a necessary allure for them
So as to take a step into this muck of sensualism called ordinary life?
Maybe, but this is not philosophy in and of itself, but a kind of faith.
Philosophy's foundation is doubt.
The presupposition in itself is verboten to scepticism.
You must discover God, as it were, from scratch.
And that presents humankind with a very sticky challenge.

Are we to be abandoned by the people of faith? Christianity, as I was raised in my two parent happy Catholic small-town large family, is primarily different than let’s say, for instance, Hinduism anywhere in the world today, though both beliefs have also similarities; they are like Asians and Italians, both are humans with a cultural gulf between them. So for the argument to hold weight, it has to be much broader than Peter Hitchens and Douglas Murray make it. I had blindly thought like Margaret Atwood, that totalitarianism would always come from the Right, (indeed the religious right); but no, not at all. It has come from the Left in real time. Which only makes sense if you think about it. The original progressives were the first Fascists. They were determinists and thought of humankind as an engineering problem, and they at first believed that Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler had a good thing going. History betrayed them, but they are doing a make-over.

This is why I have turned away from blanket condemnation of religion.
Atheists are some of the stupidest people you will ever meet,
And many believe in magic and happily ignore observable facts,
Especially the Marxists, Zionists and determinists.

If we are to save some objective truth and fight this devastating moral relativity that is out there currently, we need a far wider base than the Christian conservative intellectuals suggest. I am sympathetic to this overall goal; and thus, some out there, if their spiritual needs aren’t met, fall into depravity; or in other words, if they lose their God, they lose their way. I can confirm that this is true for many souls I’ve known through my life. Empirical data exists, for instance, that boys without fathers are in a desperate situation, and that men without marriage do poorly. Some social moral structure is exceedingly important—stealing, drinking, drugs, philandering, i.e., hedonism in general, emit lifestyles that diminish all humankind and can be easily empirically shown, as does life without purpose, employment, or self-education for some examples. Moreover, a belief in nihilism or nothingness, a conviction that elders have no wisdom and other such easily refutable myths also hurt society.  So faith is needed in this wilting age of ours, but so is credulity – given the behaviour of major religions in the past, (I mean without exception), caution is in order.

One who was a Deist in philosophy might remain a Christian in religion.
Many people believe that one of the essentials of life,
Is: Fear of God!

People of faith must not be reactionary and return to the “Days of Yore” which if nothing else, put women and children at risk from patriarchal ideology. We want decent and moral neighbourhoods; a loving community; law and order; freedom of speech; equality before the law; and a society without any repression of minorities, (especially Liberals who I hope will soon become one of them). So, how has the breakdown of moral standards occurred?  Well, certainly a loss of faith, has not helped, but neither has licensed medicine, public supplied education, an obese population mirrored by obese welfare states, the 17 to 22 spook agencies of the American Deep State, the US Military Industrial Complex, the growth of subsidized industrial farming, the monopoly of tech giants, who, as bad actors, have betrayed the values of free speech; Big Pharma, and their famous regulatory capture of the FDA, HHS, NIH, CDC, and other state regulatory agencies; and all the unhealthy processed food supplied to a sugar-addicted population and okayed by government. In total, all these are threatening the Anglosphere and Western Civilization,

"Plenty of people will tell you that they don’t need God
They don’t see the point of Him.
They don’t understand what His existence explains.
I’ve got no business with those people.
They can believe whatever they want.
Jesus didn’t come for them.
Jesus came for the poor, not the rich.
Jesus came for the sick, not the well.
Jesus came for the broken, not the whole.
Jesus came for the losers, not the winners.
Jesus didn’t come to explain anything.
He came to help the ones in need."

So, there is a lot of blame to go around, including the atheistic neo-Marxist intelligentsia, spewing their irrationalism from inside subsidized and completely corrupted universities. So while Libertarians are not often welcome inside conservatives of faith organs, let’s say, Libertarians certainly accept their presence as our intellectual allies. We may have some Ron Paul-like differences in wanting the Full-Monty: the Night-Watchman State, laissez-faire capitalism, LGBQT tolerance and state’s rights as oppose, for instance, to the federal government burgeoning power structures. A Libertarian society would be a no-nonsense economic dynamic and culturally conservative one which people of all faiths could be satisfied with even if run by Austrian economists. In truth, that is why Libertarians are in a better position to run things than conservatives. This traditional religious view of life, this political movement, has had two to three centuries to stop liberal fascism, (rule utilitarianism, i.e., human sacrifice for political or scientific ends, and the outright absurd belief that we should continue talking about the old see-saw of Right and Left). Conservatives and Liberals’ era is done.

If we follow Popper’s conjecture criterion, i.e., all observation is theory-laden,
We cannot answer the question raised by the cartesian philosopher and inventor of calculus,
Gottfried Leibniz: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”
We can say only as an atheist that the theory ‘a universe from nothing sort of works,’
But if someone says, "I believe a supernatural entity kicked the big bang forward,"
Neither view is falsifiable and this ultimate question is therefore out of the purview of science,
No explanation yet proposed has achieved an answer verified by observable data or even come close.

Finally, remember Ludwig Mises’ most important moral lessons about the state: Unintended Consequences of state welfare and charity: In for the window, in for the whole house! It might take 50 or 100 years but society ends in totalitarianism because we didn’t refuse the entire indefensible concept [utlitarianism and toxic empathy] from the beginning: subsidize single motherhood, end up with fatherless boys; hand out free needles and drugs in safe places, end up with crime-infested havens for drug addicts; license doctors, they will end up in the pocket of Big Pharma and become their unionized anti-scientific stooges; compel children to get a public education and end up with a belligerent union of activist teachers who care neither about students’ hearts & souls or about parents’ wishes but only to indocrinate them; have state run medical facilities and watch as they become unaffordable dinosaur institutions that strip you of your income in one visit; allow the state to monitor speech on Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and other tech platforms and observe as they become beacons of evil; allow the government to set the moral agenda and wait for Machiavellian foxes to take over the hen house; allow the military arm 17 to 22 spy agencies and try to drain the swamp; you end with a Goth thrasher band called, Two Dead Kennedys and the Donald in Charge. I can assure you I can go on in this vain for some time, suffice it to say, nothing ever entirely good comes from government. If they are necessary, they are a barely required iniquity; beware, humans are flawed, flawed, flawed, and power attracts the most morally defective of them.

The Godhead in us wrings our noble deeds from our relucant selves

Having said all of this, recently, Matt Walsh was on the Tucker Carlson show and made some outrageous and easily refutible remarks. He is famous for his satirical docs called 'What is a Woman' and 'Am I a racist'? He punks people on the Left like Sacha Baron Cohen does to the Right, perhaps not as funny, certainly not as mean. Anyway, he made the ludicrous remark, among others, that gay parents who adopt children were an abomination; and that the the kids would be better in adoption centres, which is so hateful and absurd; senseless really. This was why Fundies (fundamentalist-Christianity) was so ferociously criticized in the last decades by Liberals. It is the 'us and them' genetically-inherited trait in human nature (the Baldwin Effect) as can happen anywhere and at anytime, & as is happening before our eyes in Israel and Palestine right now. We, (the self-defined true Christians, Muslem, Jew, or whoever), are the capital G Good, against, (in this case of Matt Walsh), the gay minority, 10 to 12 percent of the population who are capital B Bad, many who are indeed, themselves, devoted Christians, Moslems, Jews and people of other religious denominations. Ridiculous. Dangerous. Silly. He should apologize and ask for forgiveness, as is the Christian condition; for more of this outright hypocrisy, (and, indeed, laughable cherry-picking) see, Allie Beth Stuckey's, Toxic Empathy.

Where is the wise?
Where is the scribe?
Where is the disputer of this world?
Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men.
And the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Thank you for reading (or listening to), this short rant.