I believe this was more a comment on the left's habit or rejecting anything related to God and fetishizing science into a pseudo- religion. Ironic, since many of the men considered by history to be scientific greats were believers of the very thing that the left despises.
Not all atheists are woke, this is true, but the majority of the left leans hard into the arrogance, misery, and consumerism that aethism can instill in some people.
It's great. One of those books that you read and then set down for a bit, not because it isn't good, but because you need time to digest what you just learned before moving on.
I'd also recommend writings from the Stoic philosophers. They never knew Christ, but they touched on the existence of God through a profound love and desire of reason and virtue. They spoke of the importance of living an honorable and virtuous life, rejecting the desire for material goods, mastery of the self and our emotions, and a love for our fate, no matter what it may bring.
If you combine Stoic wisdom and Christian faith you end up with an amazing framework for living a truly happy and fulfilling life. "The porch and the Cross" is a short but wonderful book on this subject.
"The Language of God" is a fascinating book on this subject that I would recommend to everyone interested in learning more about just how complicated the workings of our body and world are.
Here's some food for thought. Ever notice how almost nothing in the natural world is illogical? Everything follows a set order or rules and laws, even something as seemingly chaotic as a wildfire can't exist outside of a set of hard rules.
It's not until you start climbing up the ranks of living beings that you start to encounter illogical and irrational behaviour. The more intelligent a creature is the more susceptible to these kinds of acts it becomes. A wolf kills a deer not because it relishes in the suffering and pain of the deer, but simply because it wants to eat and survive. Humans on the other hand will kill and maim others for perverse and sadistic pleasure, differing belief, or material wealth and goods - all illogical behaviour from a natural perspective.
It's also interesting that the more removed from nature a creature is the more miserable and stressed it becomes. Tropical fish, as an example, will not display the same vibrant colors and behaviours that they do in the wild when placed in an aquarium. Wolves display markedly different behaviour in captivity than they do in packs in the wild.
This phenomena is also easily observed in people. The highest rates of mental illness, crime, and generally illogical behaviour are found in cities, which are also the locations most removed from nature. As you get out into the countryside where people live in and interact with nature more, these patterns and behaviours are found less and less.
The more we remove ourselves from nature and the gifts we were endowed with the more miserable and distorted we become. Fighting against nature instead of living and working with it. Rejecting virtue and a higher calling and instead choosing to debase ourselves with an endless lust for worldly pleasure and material goods. For many people, life is just chasing one dopamine fix after another. A whole life spent running on the hedonic treadmill before death mercifully ends it and frees them from their self-imposed slavery. It's really sad, but such is the nature of free will and choice.
I wish I could take the Adirondack park and just move it to another state.
The issue is that, at least in modern times, those things have been slapped together to form a misery sandwich. There is no God, so worship the state. There is no God, so worship money. There is no God, so buy that 13 inch dragon dildo and livestream yourself riding it.
Look, I get that at one point atheism came about as a rejection of systemic corruption and as a form of self-mastery and ownership, and to some people it still is that, but to the woke left it isn't. It's an excuse to engage in all their fucked up and destructive behaviours. It's an excuse for them to adopt a smugness and intellectual arrogance to satisfy their ego. It's an excuse to remove any fault and responsibility for themselves because what's the point, right?
Atheism has been absorbed and leveraged by the evil people in this world and used towards a bad end, just like everything else they get involved with. It's just another thing to be used to fuel their desire for power and control, and it's been really successful so far. God has never been more absent from the hearts and minds of people than now, and even though we live in a time of untold luxury and abundance, people are fucking miserable. In their misery they've turned to the government, media, and sciencism for comfort and answers and now we have entire swaths of people who worship the societal elite as if they're gods. The whole thing is sickening and the co-opting and promotion of atheism has been a major part of it.
If I were an atheist that saw atheism as a framework for self-mastery and personal accountability, I'd be furious with all this, as I assume you are.