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15 January 2019
I WOULD CHOOSE
Plato said, “I thank God that I was born Greek and not barbarian, freeman and not slave, man and not woman; but above all, that I was born in the age of Socrates.” These were his values—we almost certainly wouldn’t agree with all of them. Time changes some values. You may disagree and desire to totally adhere to biblical or Quranic values? Read the Pentateuch or the Qur’an and try to hold fast to their values of stoning and killing. See how long it is before the authorities incarcerate you as a homicidal maniac.
Not all values are equal. I would choose freedom over servitude. I would choose truth over falsehood. I would choose compassion over cruelty. I trust you would too. This has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with culture and religion— skin color is skin deep. Genetically all peoples are created equal. We haven’t had time to differentiate significantly since we came out of Africa 75,000 years ago. There is no such thing as a Muslim child, a Catholic child, or a Seventh-day Adventist child. This labeling is child abuse—a value I also do not adhere to. As Rousseau declared, “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” How eagerly society forges these chains to shape a child into a communist, a Nazi, a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, or whatever. Where is their compassion? Not all cultures are equal because not all values are equal. I would choose Greece and not Persia. I would choose Athens and not Sparta. I would choose America and not Nazi Germany. I would choose Europe and not the Middle East. I trust you would too.
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10 December 2018
Excerpt from Allah, Jesus, and Yahweh: The Gods That Failed
Most ages have had defining historical events: Rome had the Goths; Christianity had the Dark Ages; Napoleon, the old royal order; Europe, the Fascism of Hitler, and Mussolini; the West, the communism of Marx and Mao. We are now afloat on a tidal wave of conflict between Islam and the West: between faith and reason, between anti-science and science, between submission and freedom. And like Brutus, we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures.
In this book, we will look behind the curtain of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to view the moral and intellectual damage these Abrahamic religions have done to our civilization. Individual liberty is the overriding value of Western society and the sine qua non of art and science. We must be vigorous in its defense or our civilization will perish. Freedom isn’t free! Every tired dog loses its supper. Every fat pig goes to market. As Thomas Jefferson well understood, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
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26 October 2018
MONOTHEISM Why is monotheism superior to polytheism or indeed all other isms? Is this the result of cultural evolution or traditional delusion? What are the social and political consequences of believing in a single, all-powerful deity? The American writer and historian Gore Vidal has an answer to this question:
"The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal—God is the Omnipotent Father—hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. The sky-god is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, as he is not just in place for one tribe, but for all creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god’s purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and those of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home."
Vidal has compellingly summed up the failure of monotheism to benefit humankind. Totalitarianism is the top-down command structure for monotheism—on Earth as it is in Heaven. Regrettably, these are the governments the Middle East still has. We in the West and the Far East have had our share of such wretched systems: Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Maoism, and so on. In the shadowy background of every religious and ideological commandment is the silent but unspoken 11th supreme mandate: Thou shall not question! To question shows disobedience and this makes God’s delegates on earth panic and their sky-gods rage. It also infuriates earthly dictators and has their minions scrambling for cover. If you question, you will be silenced—to the extent your society allows. Because of secularization in the West since the Inquisition, the punishment is usually little or nothing; in the Middle East, however, the price of apostasy is death∗. It’s about freedom. It was in the past, it is in the present, and will be in the future—it always has been. Freedom to think! Freedom to question and write! Freedom to discuss! This is the great divide between good and evil.
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15 October 2018
There are those, and they are many, who would say religion is valuable even though it is false. To them I would say look at history, look at social justice, look at morality, and you will find little or none of these in churches, mosques, synagogues, or any rigid ideology. Systems of thought that have no touchstone in reality lead to the darkest places in the human heart. As Jacob Bronowski said, “Science is a tribute to what we can know even though we are fallible.” The values of science are human values: truth, tolerance, independence, common sense, and a willingness to change your mind on the presentation of new evidence.
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08 August 2018
حمل مجانا pdf: الله و يسوع و يهوه: الآلهة الذين فشلوا بالعربية WWW.ANTI-THEIST.CA أكثر الكتب أهمية في وقتنا هذا
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12 July 2018
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11 July 2018
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07 July 2018
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