Atheism, God and Morality_6

ATHEISM, GOD AND MORALITY IN A TIME OF IMPERIALISM AND RISING FUNDAMENTALISM

An Exchange Between

CHRIS HEDGES
on his new book
"I DON'T BELIEVE IN ATHEISTS"

AND

SUNSARA TAYLOR
on behalf of Bob Avakian's new book
"AWAY WITH ALL GODS! UNCHAINING THE MIND AND RADICALLY CHANGING THE WORLD"

Sponsored by Revolution Books

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Tags:

• athiesm
• god
• morality
• revolution
• activism
• imperialism
• fundamentalism

[Hottides]

What do Theists know of morality? Theists draw all "morality" from the mandates and examples of an infinitely brutal, murderous psychotic, i,e, god.

[landothedead]

... well yeah, I thought Christians were guided by the word of god.

[1982mockingbird1982]

@1czechit1 I dont think there is anything in the actual Marxist ideology that justifies the brutality, suppression and facism perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party and other regimes. In fact many Marxists outside these countries criticize these regimes. The Abrahamic doctrines on the hand seem to very explicitly endorse genocide, slavery etc which is why she would perceive them to be inherently bad. And is she even Marxist?

[1czechit1]

too bad no one was shouting Brain Check! Brain Check, we the 99% who believe in religion accuse you psycho woman, of your culpability in the mass murder of people who try to oppress religion (and practice slavery) through marxism, revolutionary ideology... ect ect ect.

[1czechit1]

the same can be said about politics, especially revolutionary ideology, especially when talking about mass murder (Fascism and Communism, Marxism, anarchism) and so on.

[AgentP0wer]

Intelligent AND attractive. Rawr.

[egyptianminor]

Sunsara you're wrong about religion's origin. I appreciate your revolt against the far right in America, but you gotta do your homework about where religions REALLY come from- forget the materialistic/scientific demon possesion =epilepsy fit, peyote, mushroom visons,zeitgeist, undiluted marxism,etc...'folklore and bibles' contain more truth than you could imagine. go research Ufology, the occult and the paranormal - if you believe that science has explained religion, think again.

[egyptianminor]

That's not God's fault or eve spirituality's fault, it's Humans who make choices and misuse organized religion in order to gain power and oppress others -it's like drugs or alcohol or guns - it's the use and purpose you ascribe to it that defines it, not the thing itself.

[niinja2]

@MrAlienlovechild

", I can’t help but seeing his view of human nature as deterministically negative"

when i hear hedges i see a rare man who understands both sides and how the world works, but i to see him as a permanent pessimist

i cant miss to notice that this might be because of his christian heritage which says "no one can save us but god, we are doomed without him" , since hedges does not believe in a god, i think his pessimism is a natural consequence of taht.

or he is right

[scrambledpenis]

@utarian7 well you have your way of life i have mine. however we can share our love for attractive women!

[utarian7]

@scrambledpenis Actually, everything she says makes quite a lot of sense to me, and I'm not crazy. I'm sure many others would agree with me. However, I defer to your latter statement.... she is quite attractive for sure.