(March 14, 2017 at 11:37 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: While I agree that Marxism isn't identical to atheism, Marxism is atheistic. Ayn Rand's libertarianism would be a good example of an atheistic ideology at the opposite end of the spectrum. Nevertheless I would call them kissing-cousins of atheism.
Marxism may be atheistic, but atheism has nothing to do with Marxism.
And objectivism has nothing to do with atheism. Ayn Rand just happened to be an atheist.
If those are kissing cousins, you might as well call Islam and Christianity fucking cousins.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell