(October 20, 2013 at 8:52 pm)arvind13 Wrote: Here is an interesting quote from philosopher John Gray from his book Straw Dogs:
"To Deny the existence of God is to accept the categories [framework] of monotheism. As these categories fall into disuse, unbelief becomes uninteresting. Atheists say they want a secular world, but a world defined by the absence of the Christian God is still a Christian world. Secularism is like chastity, a condition defined by what it denies. If atheism has a future, it can only be in a Christian world.
Atheism is a late bloom of a Christian passion for truth. No Pagan is ready to sacrifice the pleasure of life for the sake of mere truth. The long delayed consequence of Christian faith was an idolatry of truth that found its most complete expression in Atheism."
Hi guys. I just joined this forum. I thought this quote was fascinating and would be interesting to reflect upon and discuss about.
Oh joy, another philosopher word salad. Not really that different from the garden variety forum troll, but with better spelling.
Since when has Christianity ever had a passion for truth. Rather it has had a passion for contradictory mythology, particularism, heresy hunts, crusades, religious wars, censorship and splitting up into battling sects.
Truth became something men valued with the coming of philosophy. Mankind has been stumbling towards that ideal since Thales. To give credit to Christianity for that and ignoring the pre-Socratic Greeks is simply a perverse sort of ignorance.
Welcome to our little corner of truth seekers, Arvind13.
"There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.
-- Cicero De Divinatione (Book II
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If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
- Attributed to Mark Twain
