RE: Am I an Anarchist?
November 29, 2018 at 10:06 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2018 at 10:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 29, 2018 at 9:56 pm)Cherub786 Wrote: I happen to live in Canada, my place of birth and residence for most of my life, a relatively free country. Of course I don’t consider myself a Canadian or express any loyalty to the state or the “nation”. Countries are merely territories to me, soil, rock, water and vegetation. I don’t anthropomorphize a country like a patriot or nationalist.I think that you might wanna test that particular preference out.
I have come to realize I am more anti-nationalist than I am anarchist. I can tolerate a state as long as it is very weak and limited. I guess I’m more of a libertarian then. But a stateless society has its appeal too. Let me be quite honest, I’d rather live in a place like Somalia with its roaming militias than in China with its spotless streets. You can’t put a price on freedom. The point is I absolutely hate any kind of authoritarianism. I sincerely hope North America continues to be relatively free and doesn’t go down the route of Europe or Britain.
Quote:As for atheists, to each his own, but it must be admitted that the Soviet Union and now China have been the bastions of state sponsored atheism and persecute religious groups. The concentration camps in Xiangjiang province and the condition of Uighurs and Kazakhs is an outright example of atheist persecution of a religious community right now as we approach the year 2019.Yet another common and commonly flawed grievance. No one is persecuting anyone on account of how no god told them to. This is just something that the religious have become fond of saying..and ofc, it's a repetition of US Cold War propaganda, so good job on carrying that line. You got a bit of that right, at least..yes..atheists here in north america are commonly humanists and commonly aligned with religious liberty. The religious, however, are not..lol. The religious overseas are no more inclined to humanism or liberty...and the far right populists to which you're referring are a massively religious lot themselves. Your boogeymen..themselves, Russia and China...simply privilege their own traditional and collaborating religions against those of the detested Other.
Now of course the atheists here in North America tend to be humanists or at least liberal and committed to religious liberty. But they have to acknowledge the illiberal atheists across the Atlantic and the Pacific are harming the cause of religious liberty in the name of the state.
Quote:Atheism is intrinsically prone to politically authoritarian and collectivist ideologies. That is because atheism is colorless, it doesn’t understand the human condition as religion does, particularly Semitic religions, and it is from the latter that we get concept like civil disobedience and the morality of defying the state and the law when the state or law is unjust and tyrannical.I don't know where to begin on how wrong the above is, or that it would even be worthwhile to do so.
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