Karl Marx - The Skeleton in the Atheists Closet
January 9th 2008 10:33
I always enjoy reading about how perfect someones beliefs are and how following them will make the world a better place. Like a sci-fi writer explaining the wonders that are lying just around the corner I can't help but enjoy the story. It is of course simply a fictional story.
Atheists have, like any other religious group, been trumpetting their ideas of the inevitable perfect world thats just 'round the corner waiting to be found any day now. The world in which everyone is just perfect and no one is at war because there's no religion to go to war over.
Such narrow mindedness can be found in at least some of the followers of virtually every religion in existence. The reason for it is simple, people like to be right and right always. When such thinking continues a sort of blindness overcomes the victim. The victim is suddenly in a state of intellectual perfection where lifes questions can be answered through the beliefs only the victim possesses.
Even if atheists would like to distance themselves from religion they cannot argue against this point. If science is their solution to the worlds problems then it is no different to god being the solution to the worlds problems, and so is Budha and so is any number of other beliefs or gods. Arguing the semantics is a silly waste of time 'my beliefs are right and yours is wrong because mine does such and such wherein yours does not do such and such and fails here'.
Karl Marx, of all people, summed up the atheists mindset perfectly when he called religion 'the opium of the people'. He also fathered an oppressive form of government that to this day is responsible for numerous humanrights violations.
So what of atheists? Nothing really, they're not the cause of the worlds problems any more than Christians, Jews or Muslims are. There is no 'inevitable peace' to be had if all atheists are taken from this world and there certainly is no inevitable peace to be had if all religious people are taken from this world.
The 'religion' that causes misery and suffering, that urges us to go to war does not belong to any one group of people. It is simply a collection of primitive human emotion, they're emotions which make us feel good when we express them. Those of us who are truly weak minded express these emotions, those who are better can control them.
Atheists have, like any other religious group, been trumpetting their ideas of the inevitable perfect world thats just 'round the corner waiting to be found any day now. The world in which everyone is just perfect and no one is at war because there's no religion to go to war over.
Such narrow mindedness can be found in at least some of the followers of virtually every religion in existence. The reason for it is simple, people like to be right and right always. When such thinking continues a sort of blindness overcomes the victim. The victim is suddenly in a state of intellectual perfection where lifes questions can be answered through the beliefs only the victim possesses.
Even if atheists would like to distance themselves from religion they cannot argue against this point. If science is their solution to the worlds problems then it is no different to god being the solution to the worlds problems, and so is Budha and so is any number of other beliefs or gods. Arguing the semantics is a silly waste of time 'my beliefs are right and yours is wrong because mine does such and such wherein yours does not do such and such and fails here'.
Karl Marx, of all people, summed up the atheists mindset perfectly when he called religion 'the opium of the people'. He also fathered an oppressive form of government that to this day is responsible for numerous humanrights violations.
So what of atheists? Nothing really, they're not the cause of the worlds problems any more than Christians, Jews or Muslims are. There is no 'inevitable peace' to be had if all atheists are taken from this world and there certainly is no inevitable peace to be had if all religious people are taken from this world.
The 'religion' that causes misery and suffering, that urges us to go to war does not belong to any one group of people. It is simply a collection of primitive human emotion, they're emotions which make us feel good when we express them. Those of us who are truly weak minded express these emotions, those who are better can control them.
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Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Ir is amazing how the collective IQ of Orble has lifted over the last few days.
Just from an historical perspective their is no new great wave of atheism ready to sweep the world.
Since the collapse f Marxism no new ideology has come to answer people questions.
So in essence the fights for the next few years may be no different than ancient times.