Spiritual/Political/Philosophical Blog on the Nature of Truth and Falsehood and Heaven
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Monday, December 01, 2003 Tied to the whippin' post I keep promising myself that I won't engage in arguments with relativists and atheists, and yet I'll read a comment here or there in which I think a person has some capacity for reason, and become drawn in again to a futile disquisition. I keep forgetting that the irreligious are emotionally disturbed people, bound to their opinions by negative experience and bad childhoods; that they cannot change their view based on reason, but suffer from distortions induced by a pyschological pathology. Now, it is also true that there is a breed of religious people who are also disturbed by their upbringing, but they are the tiny minority. So you have four classes of people. The religious, the secular, the militant irreligious, and the militant religious. The secular, in our age, aren't so hostile to the idea of religion and spirituality, as they are to religious people whom they see as typified by the extremely fundamental and scrupulous. Of course, they see any seriously religious person as an extremist. But the purely atheist, militantly irreligious is a class of itself, for its hostility to reason and faith (for faith is, of course, entirely rational) is based on a demented psychology. The militant irrationalist believes that people of faith are the crazy ones, of course, who have a peculiar need to imagine a good daddy watching over them, yet what has atheism ever produced that was humanly worthwhile? Nothing much (and an enormity of holocausts. See Nazism, Communism, and Fascism) Are there any great atheists? Freud, Marx, Bertrand Russell, Bertold Brecht, Sartre? I can't think of a single atheist who has made a significantly positive contribution to humanity. Anyway, I have to stop responding to people who's thoughts beg a comment. It really is pointless to hope that committed atheists can reason, since they can never define truth. Evasion, contradiction, and denial are the atheist's art. posted by Mark Butterworth | 12:41 AM | |
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