04.01.08

Tibet, Dawkins/Dennett, the New Atheism and exterminating Buddhism

Posted in religion at 6:42 pm by nemo

The atheist delusion.

For Dawkins and Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Martin Amis, Michel Onfray, Philip Pullman and others, religion in general is a poison that has fuelled violence and oppression throughout history, right up to the present day. The urgency with which they produce their anti-religious polemics suggests that a change has occurred as significant as the rise of terrorism: the tide of secularisation has turned. These writers come from a generation schooled to think of religion as a throwback to an earlier stage of human development, which is bound to dwindle away as knowledge continues to increase. In the 19th century, when the scientific and industrial revolutions were changing society very quickly, this may not have been an unreasonable assumption. Dawkins, Hitchens and the rest may still believe that, over the long run, the advance of science will drive religion to the margins of human life, but this is now an article of faith rather than a theory based on evidence.

It is not atheism that is the problem, as such. But the puerile attitude toward religion and the refusal to even study it, or consider its broader context.
The New Atheists should consider the legacy of the Feuerbachian generation that spawned Marxism, for example, and then consider the extermination tactics going on in Tibet.
The seeds you sow will bear fruit in the fruits, the charge of violence against religion being hypocritical, since violent atheist attempts to violently destroy, e.g. Buddhism, are suddenly front-page news.

I should note that Christians of a certain ilk will certain stand by and secretly support this extermination of their rivals.

Noone is objecting to a critique of religion, but the current efforts based on Darwinian, scientistic, and one-dimensional humanistic approachs are self-defeating.

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