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I'm not sure if you're actually reading this (mess) right: > The neoconservatives, for example, are a showcase of what happens when the moralogian takes hold o

I'm not sure if you're actually reading this (mess) right: > The neoconservatives, for example, are a showcase of what happens when the moralogian takes hold of the reins of foreign policy—and it is a consistent ideology that genuinely seeks to spread the values it values. I know Bush himself was elected as "religious right", but the author seems to view the neocons as atheist ("moralogian"), and Bush himself was kind of a well-meaning puppet puppy... I always thought "atheism for the masses" got rolling much earlier in '92 (I think of Clinton as "nihilist pseudo-liberal conservative" but that's just me). I don't even know what to call the current moment - batshit delusionalism? That kinda works...

Apocryphon 4y ago
I wasn't really referencing the article directly when I mentioned the Bush administration, but that's a good point. I just brought up the Bush era because that was the New Atheist's heyday and the last time when the existence of God was a hot button public discussion topic, as it was also the heyday of Islamic terrorism and Christian evangelicals. Nowadays when people try to push atheism too hard they just get called cringe Redditors, even though public religiosity in traditional religions have declined. Neocons are pretty secular so the moralogian reference isn't inaccurate. But it's probably more compatible with Bush's evangelical Christian worldview than the distinction between moralogian and theologian makes it to be.