First post: Free Republic, July 17, 2004

Here's why atheism is always eventually demonic in its fury against its own ctizens:

The atheist is the consummate iconoclast.

iconoclast.
Main Entry: icon·o·clast
Pronunciation: -"klast
Function: noun
Etymology: Medieval Latin iconoclastes, from Middle Greek eikonoklastEs, literally, image destroyer, from Greek eikono- + klan to break -- more at CLAST
1 : one who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration
2 : one who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
- icon·o·clas·tic /(")I-"kä-n&-'klas-tik/ adjective
- icon·o·clas·ti·cal·ly /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb

When Atheism becomes the driving force in government, it starts by marginalizing religion and religious, and seeks to remove images of God from the public.

After its iconoclasm has eliminated all images of God, it goes after all mention of God in the culture, till religion has become only a private affair, never mentioned outside the chapel, church, or synagogue.

Eventually, the iconoclasm of the atheistically driven culture and/or government will no longer tolerate even the presence of the chapel, church, or synagogue, destroying them or converting them to serve state purposes.

The remaining faithful are driven underground, only to be persecuted, arrested, tortured, murdered.

Unfortunately, after the iconoclasm of atheism has rid the culture of all public and private images of God and vestiges of belief, atheism realizes that millions of images of God still exist:

in the eyes of the innocent the image of the Creator is still visible.

At which point atheism, with demonic fury, reveals itself for what it truly is: Demonic. And atheism the kills with a fury that can only be called demonic:

Atheism always kills the innocent, eventually. It is the only way for atheism to destroy all images of God on earth.

The proof is in the numbers...atheistic regimes have killed hundreds of millions of innocents over the last hundred years.

Men are far safer in Christian, Jewish, and even Muslim cultures than in any atheistic culture known to history.

That's right: The atheism we have already seen is far more dangerous than any mythical loathsome theocracy the mainstream media and pop culture uses to marginalize believers.

Unfortunately, after the iconoclasm of atheism has rid the culture of all public and private images of God and vestiges of belief, atheism realizes that millions of images of God still exist:

in the eyes of the innocent the image of the Creator is still visible.

Brian J. Kopp, DPM, is vice president of the Catholic Family Association of America, officer of the board of the Polycarp Research Institute, a member of the Catholic Media Coalition, and freelance Catholic writer.