Matt Walsh, a conservative Christian blogger, gets a lot of hate for being just that: a conservative Christian blogger. His extreme views on politics and religion tend to draw out a fair amount of discussion.

Walsh is commonly known for being a sort of beacon for young, right-winged Americans. With a strong Catholic background and little to no problem with voicing his opinion, he tends to be consistently berated by the left. All of which are outraged by his audacity to speak out against abortion and adultery, amongst many other controversial topics.

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When I last googled "Matt Walsh Blogger," the first link that was listed was to RationalWiki.com, leading to a piece on Walsh that stated the following:

Matt Walsh is an anti-feminist blogger who runs the aptly named Matt Walsh Blog. Most of his blogs involve him mischaracterizing and insulting things that he doesn't agree with or like. Especially targeted are things like immigration, gender equality and feminist-oriented causes, such as the pro-choice movement.^[1] On top of all this, he also writes for the.. 'News' source known as The Blaze.

Following this is a list of external links, the first titled: "Matt Walsh's garbage dump itself," takes you directly to Walsh's personal website. Next was a link to an Anti-Matt Walsh site. If you're interested in double checking this, here is the link.

Being a fan of Matt Walsh myself, when I stumbled across a website titled "The Salty Snowflake," sporting this recent article: "The Matt Walsh Effect: Millions Turning Away from Religion, Disgusted by the Idea of Living Eternal Life in Heaven with Matt Walsh," I obviously couldn't resist.

This article quoted an unnamed "recent survey" where people were supposedly asked why they had chosen to leave religion. The article went on to further state that the "vast majority" of the participants of this unsourced survey insisted that they feared "spending eternal life in heaven with 'douche bag's.'"

The "Matt Walsh Effect" is explained as the alleged phenomenon sweeping the nation, that's causing Americans to turn away from religion, strictly based off the fact that they would rather not "spend eternity" with people like Walsh.

The article quoted one respondent who was said to have claimed:

"I mean what do you do all day in Heaven? Can you imagine spending infinity in a ******* bingo hall with folks like Joshua Feuerstein and Mike Pence?

Or, an eternity of shuffleboard with conservative heroes like Matt Walsh and Kim Davis? No thanks."

The article further went on to speak about many other respondents who were said to have mentioned their loathing towards Walsh, then continued to complain about Matt Walsh complaining about men wearing yoga pants and playing with Barbie dolls. Insisting that an eternity with people like Walsh would be a "buzz kill," the article distastefully closed with the statement: "I hope they serve beer in hell."

There are innumerable issues I take up in the 332 words strung together to compose that article, but the one I'm focusing on today is the cowardice of maneuvering around the real reason these people take issue with religion-- which I assure you isn't solely based off of Matt Walsh's stance on yoga.

Living in a country founded on the ideal of freedom of religion-- or in this case, the lack of belief therein-- we all have every right to feel however we choose to feel towards whatever religion we choose, or even towards religion as a whole.

Practicing this right, along with the right of the freedom of speech, to state logical-- or at least somewhat grounded-- reasons to turn away from religion, would be much more respectable than this. Blaming the existence of your own cultivated views on the so-called “offensive" opinions of someone else, who doesn't even have the power affect or persuade your values in the slightest, is the epitome of gutlessness.

It's apparent that it is an unattainable idea that we can actually stand behind our own convictions and opinions. This fact has been obvious for awhile, but is especially disheartening when concerning a topic requiring such involved thought to develop a true stance on.

Which, people are apparently incapable of having an opinion they are willing to stand behind. At least, without having to project the blame for their political and religious views on the conservative blogger they disagree with this week.

The "Matt Walsh Effect" is merely a left-winged generated reason to hate religion, by blaming all poor reflections of religious views on conservative influencers.