"Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness -- that is, the improbable -- with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy."~ E.M. Cioran.

The more you expand - take in, of others who at first seem to share your skepticism and passion to learn, the more you realize its limited capacity to do so. Limited to religion, science and medicine and stunted by dissonance and group ideological thinking. The more time you spend reading their shared views and whatever information they part your way - the less you view them as autonomous. Free - thought applies only to the expression or expansion of their worldviews, or their utopia, heaven or nirvana, complete with rapture.

Politics is the 'creationism' of Atheism. Atheists cease to use skepticism; logic and reason in order to validate their adherence to a political party. They, as creationists posting ICR links, will relay links and media they haven't researched or most times even read. They support the news and views within with blind faith. They post relentlessly the scripture of their political ideology - no matter the lack of merit or truth. Rub their nose in their apparent dissonance - and you will be transported into a familiar scene of debating the creationist. Fallacious reasoning and logical fallacies coupled with refusal to give reliable source, or any source to back assertions is usually ended with an emotional plea - a ridiculous one. Reject their personal "experiences," and you'll be "damned," or be told "You're not a real Atheist..."

I'm a blog reader - I read many blogs by my fellow Atheists. They inevitably all cover the same topics, over and over again. In humor, I call the topics the "Sutras of Atheism". There are times when I stumble across a person, who has retained their skepticism and has somehow managed to escape the ideological thinking that is becoming more and more present in Atheism as it grows in numbers. As we en masse in numbers and voice- the more we assemble a religion, complete with a rapture and heaven.

The 'rapture' is the rise of reason and enlightenment to man - religion will fall from the minds of all. We will be lifted from the tyranny of religion and given new life through knowledge. Following the rapture we will attain freedom from all abuse, all war, all the things that make us human or animals. Sin - aka ignorance, is the cause of all evil, and therefore"'knowledge" is the opposite or "good, benevolent and true".... 

We shall acquire this from repentance/atonement from our worship and adherence to religion. Knowledge  becomes God- and is omni-benevolent. Not sure what happens to those not allowed in the Atheist Utopia - I've read they get to sit it out and suffer their religion, separated from us(like hell, separated from God) who have attained heaven, so as not to bring us harm. 

Utopia - has a limited space and has criteria for entry, much like Heaven. In this heaven, utopia or nirvana, we shall implement religion, cough - excuse me, rules for the care and betterment of all man. Who will decide these rules and the direction of care and betterment for all man ? Well it's only natural those with power and with higher degrees of enlightenment shall rule our Kingdom, our Paradise. 

The promises of our reason are many.... Our God, we reinvent, is immune to rebuke and all created or done under its name is to be glorified. 

Reminds me of those seeking to be freed from the Church Of England, who then instituted the very thing they ran from ...  Or the quote I placed at the very top of this blog for that matter. It reminds me of many nations through out history and their societies. 

Much like theists, who now ignore science,  physics and etc out of dissonance, so shall we ignore what we know to be true in order to facilitate a lie we need to comfort ourselves with... We know what's best for all of mankind, right? 

Yea. 

We ignore the sciences too - in order to promote our Utopia - "fuzzy" for fuzzy logic. 

On a recent documentary titled "Universe," a scientist discussed the application of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics in relation to social behaviors and societies. This is the same law and example I've read many times by atheists when predicting the end of theism- yet seem to think ours is immune or that the rise of atheism or etc - is not part of the decay, or the reality of social entropy and the further complexity of our social structure. Every system we develop requires energy- and gains in complexity, it grows exponentially in its needs...

Follow up reading is recommended on the topic of macro-sociological systems theory.