(March 28, 2009 at 8:41 pm)Scientificist Wrote: I couldn't help notice most ppl here are generally on the left.
I think it would make more sense to me if most ppl here are libral, apolitical or even capitalistic. I dunno if you guys have read "The end of faith" before. Personally, I believe faith is dangerous, because it renders ppl to behave beyond logic and reason.
Unfortunately, most far left ideas are pretty fundamentalistc. Taking communism as an example, it requires a socialism state (or a labour country) being built first. As for how to built this state, well, there are generally 2 theories. 1 would be violent revolution, another would be election, much like some north europe country.
For the first one, things wasn't going quite well as we can see. As for the 2nd one, well, not even one socialism state has been built. 'Not' to Karl Marx's sense of course.
I think it's quite possible that a lot of you folks may not be atheistic because you see reasoning and logic as the path to truth, but because your anti-tradition. That is, if your all from a pretty lefty country, and that country is pretty much religious, you guys would be on the right.
I know it would be quite outrageous to say something like that in a forum like this, but I really wanna here you guys' minds.
Sorry for my english, and I hope I didn't say nothing offensive. If I did, I truely apologise.
Where are you from?
In the UK we have a long socialist tradition dating back centuries, because capitalism has been seen by generations of the masses to be a corrupt system that favours the rich and powerful.
That tradition endures, even in today's times of global capitalism and right-wing values dominating most of the globe.
The church in the uk has always been part of the capitalist establishment, inherently reactionary.
Quite apart from the fact that all religion is no more than
superstition, the fact that it is part of the capitalist system is enough for atheists and lefties generally to reject it and wish its death ( with no resurrection! ).
You say no socialist state exists. Not true. Cuba still endures and South America now has emerging socialist regimes.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
