EVERYTHING IS OUR FAULT

Now Michael Medved says conspiracy theories are the fault of atheism.

... [One] factor fueling conspiracy theories involves the rise of secularism and atheism in the United States and, to a much greater extent, in Europe. Human beings feel a deep and perpetual desire to find some deeper meaning in the dramatic events around them. Religious believers can examine those developments and begin to discern God's will. Those without strong faith, however, may feel the need to explain these alarms and disasters with reference to diabolical human agents determined to play god....

If spectators to history can't pronounce the words "Thy Will Be Done" without having them stick in the throat, at least the formulation "The Conspiracy's Will Be Done" provides more satisfaction than an assumption of randomness.

G.K. Chesterton once observed: "The problem with those who reject God is not that they believe in nothing. It is that they believe in everything."

I'm sure that would be a surprise to those who know anything about, say, this guy:

Eric Rudolph, the U.S. white supremacist arrested over the weekend for four bombings, including an attack at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, was apparently motivated by an anti-Semitic ideology known as Christian Identity.

Rudolph, 36, also wrote a paper espousing Holocaust denial while in high school....

Jews came in for particular hatred, said his former sister-in-law.

Rudolph "hated Jews more than probably any other race," Deborah Rudolph, who is divorced from Rudolph's brother, Joel, told ABC's "Good Morning America."

He "felt that, you know, they've been run out of every country they've ever been in. They've destroyed every country they've ever been in. They have too much control in our country," she said.

He considered the TV "The Electronic Jew," she said in an interview a few years ago.

"You could be watching a 30-minute sitcom and the credits would roll and there'd be Jewish names and, excuse my expression, but he would say, 'You f------g Yids.' Any little thing and he would start," she said....

Oh, and I see Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described as a "devout" Muslim. Funny how that doesn't seem to interfere with his whole Holocaust denial thing....