Religious critiques

Atheists devolved into political and philospphical absurdities which made them unable to defend much less cultivate a civilization. Basically, their reliance on their own reason allowed post-modernism to own them.

Which is the religious critique: without believing in something eternal, good, transcendant, and greater than oneself solipsism and self-serving rationalization reign.

Atheists will say they believe in reason, but that is a process one debates on. And if academia is any guide, isn't actually very powerful. To use a nietzschean critique: man isn't reasonable, reason is against his nature, his brain is trained to advocate for what he already wants to believe. This flawed vision of humanity and failure to see it as such means True rationality will me be tried in the eyes of the atheists as it will always be dashed on the rocks of what ideas people actually find fulfilling and then justify with their own motivated reasoning as a mob or isolated elite (which is an argument Hitchens did use to rebuke the comparison to atheist regimes, by not in they weren't the Val of Einstein etc, missing the point of this), to borrow from communist apologetics. And we see this within atheism, with atheism plus, an absurd intellectual fad split the movement. This happens in academia too.

Basically, you cant depend on reason alone because of clever sillies, who actually make decisions and train the next batch of decision makers. people new something which resonates deeply within themselves which spurs them to live great lives rather than ones focused on gratification. And mental masturbation about your own reason is one from of gratification.

Also, Marxists often compare capitalist propaganda with Marxist theory when critiquing capitalism. Just thought of that when writing this, the contradictions of capitalism aren't actually about the idea but how it is sold, as if communism is sold honestly