Unclean mofos
by Will, 8 October 2007
Let me be clear, Islam, like Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and all, or any other malignant religious toss, is a pox upon humanity, as history fully demonstrates.
Until religious force is neutralized along with the other maleficent forces of the world we can not rest easy. I can’t imagine there being any question about this at all, unless of course, interest in the subject is just a vacuous intellectual game, which it does sometimes seem to be for some ignorants and apologists.
Saying all that — here’s some more reasons to despise stupid fuckers and the stupid fuckers who uncritically adhere to dogmatic and incoherent, irrational, tribal, cultist blather.
A critique of a particular cultism, and a fine one at that (pdf)
Monday 8 October 2007 at 7:22
So now we have to start criticizing the Buddhist monks who have stood up against barbarism because they are obviously stupid cult worshippers?
Monday 8 October 2007 at 7:31
To avoid stepping in the ‘68, what do we replace it with? Hitchens has said that religion conveys no virtue. He’s right, but the corollary is that it instills no vice either. You don’t eliminate a problem by removing an institution. The behaviors you don’t like will happen without holy texts and so on. Religion will be replaced by something whether you like it or not, and the function you don’t like is the impulse for chauvinism. So, to put some positive pressure on the proposed vacuum, what do you fill it with that neutralizes the pack instinct?
Monday 8 October 2007 at 8:06
Stephen Martin.
Are they protesting for democracy or a theocracy?
Stupid cult worshippers they may be but at least their fighting for something that would benefit the whole of their society rather than their imaginary god.
So I support them.
Monday 8 October 2007 at 12:21
blairapd, I suggest you are grossly ignorant of what a “corollary” is, let alone how it works.
“You don’t eliminate a problem by removing an institution.” That’s not true either.
Tuesday 9 October 2007 at 1:24
Then I will happily ask for a correction on the usage of corollary. Hitch asks for a virtue that is the exclusive domain of religion, but another question is to ask what is a vice that is exclusive to religion. Cultish, hierarchical, non-empirical, group think isn’t the sole province of religion. It can happen without a god for miles.
Which is what makes me ask in the case of religion, what will fill the gap? Slavery, once removed, didn’t get rid of labor that could be exploited brutally, hence the need for unions. That answer to slavery wasn’t just the elimination of the institution, but the positive action of forming organizations that could effectively carry out collective bargaining.
The same can be said of religion. Fascism, Stalinism and Maoism rose in the 20th through the efforts of evangelical atheists. They removed the church or made it kowtow. And they were just as bad in terms of the degradation of spirit and mind, and way worse in terms of numbers killed. So, removing religion isn’t the only solution. My honest question is as follows: what comes next?
Tuesday 9 October 2007 at 8:36
Fascism, Stalinism and Maoism rose in the 20th through the efforts of evangelical atheists.
Errrr no. They rose through the efforts of sociopathic thugs who had religiously cowed societies to exploit.
Tuesday 9 October 2007 at 13:35
quite interesting:
http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=928