Posted on 04/09/2008 7:15:36 PM PDT by Teófilo
I've said it before and I'll say it again: it is hard not to be sympathetic to the travails of the people of Tibet. Annexed against their will almost 60 years ago, their culture destroyed, their self-determination trampled under foot, their freedoms curtailed, and their religion mocked, Tibet is a case study of what atheists do when they get to rule.
Please, recall the infamous Maoist maxim: "Religion is poison." It is the same feeling echoed by the "bright" Neo-atheists such as Dawkins, Harris, Wilson, and their sycophant followers. The difference between these and the Maoists is that the latter actually got to rule a country. The others remain in waiting.
Religion forms the basis of Tibetan culture, as it does in many other places. It is not surprising, then, that the ideological descendants of Mao set out to destroy Tibetan culture and religion as an implacable ideological enemy.
"Culture" remains a mysterious concept for atheists. Its origins and manifold manifestations involved a great number of human variables which. Most atheists are bent in controlling human impulses, bad as well as good, selfish as well as altruistic, because their individualistic nature pose a severe threat to the interest of the collective as they define it, as well as to their ideological orthodoxy. For the atheists, culture is to be emptied of all transcendental meaning and reduced to folklore, dance, costumes, music, and language. For them, culture is to become an empty shell informed by scientism, materialism, atheism, and many other "-isms" except "theism," of course.
Culture as a vessel of ideological and political orthodoxy is also readily observable in Cuba, and North Korea, and in every place where the views of a militantly atheist state supersede individual freedoms and choice. Culture, not politics, is what defines a people. In the end, the atheists can't distinguish between the two.
My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Tibet, but also, with Chinese Catholics who have to worship surreptitiously due to the failure of China's atheist oligarchy to recognize that a citizen is a better citizen when he or she worships freely.
One doesn't need to wonder how it would be if atheists get to rule. The example is right before our eyes.
PING!
The 4th an 5th paragraphs nail Marxist atheism on the head as good as I’ve ever seen it.
A strong claim, that Dawkins, Harris, and other famous atheists would, given power, initiate force via the State against non-atheists. I don't buy it until I see the quotes.
Individual atheists and non-atheists have committed state repression, and individuals in both camps have defended freedom of conscience.
You have to give it to the advocates of Tibet for choosing the right time (i.e., the eve of the Summer Olympic Games) to demonstrate against that country’s repression. Also, it seems to me the Chinese government was totally unprepared for this.
As for the underground Catholic Church in China, it will rise one day and replace the puppet “Patriotic Catholic Association”. If the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Empire disintegrated, then anything can happen.
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