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Atheism and meaningless Black Lives, November 16, 2021.

Introduction. A lot of cyber ink has been spilled when it comes to responses and critiques

of the Black Lives Matter movement. But it has to be said that many of these critiques,

however good, have merely plucked leaves or branches off the tree.

What I would like to do in this space is borrow a 28 inch Huss Kovarna chainsaw from John the Baptist

and have him show me how to lay something like that at the root of the tree.

Much of the tussling has been because normal people want to say something sweet and reasonable

like all lives matter. And they point out that it follows necessarily

that Black Lives would also matter being a subset of all lives as they are.

The response to this claim is that white supremacists are plenty clever enough to nip in

and get control of any kind of all lives control panel and do so in such a way as to perpetuate

the inequities between whites and blacks, which means that at the end of the day

all lives matter would turn into some version of all lives matter but some don't matter as much.

Thus to say anything like this is to betray that you don't know what the Black Lives Matter people are talking about,

not even a little bit. And I must say if we all agreed that Jesus rose from the dead,

they might have a point in there worth considering and discussing,

but we don't share any kind of transcendental commitments, which means that all these pretended advocates

of justice have simply surrendered the field.

We still might dispute with one another, but the dispute doesn't signify.

It just means that we are dogs yapping at each other endlessly in midnight.

I say this because the founders of Black Lives Matter were basically atheistic Marxists,

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