[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Charles Taylor Templeton Prize

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:14:59 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Communism made a religion of atheism.  Lenin, Mao, Stalin were turned into virtual gods.  Communism was more like a religion unto itself that forbade worship of anything but it.  Also, as soon as the Communist system fell apart, the Russian Church came right back.  Communism was like the Bubonic Plague on that country.  It decimated it. 


 

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From: John McCreery
Sent: Mar 17, 2007 8:07 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Charles Taylor Templeton Prize



On 3/18/07, John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And most atheists I know would also disagree with your view of why
atheists don't build cathedrals.  If time really is only one lifetime
long (for each of us), most atheists I know want to leave the world a
bit better than they found it, leave something behind that has some
connection between past and future, precisely because limited time makes
it too precious to waste just sitting around.


This sounds plausible, even fits my own case (though I'm more agnostic than atheist, it's a big universe out there). But, if it is true, where are the atheists' cathedrals? The only good answer I can think of is Eastern Europe, former USSR, maybe China. Does the Great Hall of the People count?

John


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