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Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?

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Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
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Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 2:03 am
Not in its current form of non-discriminating individualism.

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RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 2:09 am
That video doesn't really speak to me. Seems like hollow pontificating.
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RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 2:19 am
Ask China.  They seem to be doing fine.
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RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 3:18 am (This post was last modified: August 14, 2016 at 3:19 am by robvalue.)
Whatever "contemporary atheism" is supposed to mean, you're actually asking whether CA minus atheism can sustain a civilisation. The atheism part is simply a lack of belief and is irrelevant. Of course it can't sustain anything, just like not believing in Santa can't sustain a civilisation.
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RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 3:35 am
Sustaining a civilization takes an economy, a social.compact, and willing participants.

I'm not sure belief or its absence really affect that sustainability.

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RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 5:10 am
(August 14, 2016 at 3:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Sustaining a civilization takes an economy, a social.compact, and willing participants.

I'm not sure belief or its absence really affect that sustainability.

What he said.



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RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 7:51 am
Is contemporary not collecting stamps sufficient to sustain a stable society?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 8:08 am
(August 14, 2016 at 2:19 am)Minimalist Wrote: Ask China.  They seem to be doing fine.

Ask the chinese workers and the majority of the population. Are they doing fine? Is that a model to strive for?
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RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 8:27 am (This post was last modified: August 14, 2016 at 8:43 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 14, 2016 at 8:08 am)abaris Wrote:
(August 14, 2016 at 2:19 am)Minimalist Wrote: Ask China.  They seem to be doing fine.

Ask the chinese workers and the majority of the population. Are they doing fine? Is that a model to strive for?

Actually, majority of Chinese population and worker probably thinks they are doing fine, in the sense that the majority of the really thorny problems which truly troubled their and their ancesters' sleep since time immemorial no longer troubled them.   When a society with long memories and a ingrained tendency to measure the present by the past experiences the lifting of the majority of citizens from almost medieval poverty, hunger, susceptibility to natural diseaster to modern standards of living within one generation, they tend see that as a great and positive good vastly more impressive on a practical scale than the rights, or airy talks of imaginary gods, with which already wealthy, but slow growing, societies amuse themselves.
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RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 8:35 am
(from a religiousite viewpoint)

how is believing in a false religion less sustaining than believing in The One True Faith ??
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