Posted 20 June 2003 - 08:55 PM
Klein,
Yes, just kidding.
It's healthy to laugh at ourselves. The first sign of fanaticism is the inability, to laugh at oneself, or at our beliefs, and ideas.
The British Christian, turned Buddhist, Alan Watts, said that the first thing he did upon awaking each day, was to laugh.
As for Upsidedown, or whatever that unsername is, I HAVE explained elsewhere that I have little patience with fanatical true believers, of any kind, atheist, religious, or whatever.
And for excuse makers.
Marxism, and atheism, are kid brothers. You can't have Marxism without atheism. Atheism's creed is the same as Marxism's, "the opiate the masses is religion"
I say, the opiate of Atheism is materialism/consumerism.
I'll say it again, without atheism, to give it fuel, Marxism would have died a still birth. Atheism is not innocent, it is a monstrously bloody ideology that has created far greater suffering, and destruction, than any religious system ever has.
Worse, athesism is a horizontal belief system, that jetisons the vertical dimension in human life, both the depth psychological, and the upward reach towards Spirit.
Atheism turns human life into a flatland of boredom, and meaninglessness.
And Sartre's silly defense of atheism is worthless. Humans beings require something better than themselves, to guide them toward greatness; God.
Without God, we have only each other as guiding mentors; and as we have seen over, and over, again, all that that eventually takes us to are the Gulags.
Atheism is a failure; aren't hundreds of millions of butchered human beings enough for you?