Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Atheism next to godliness

 It is interesting to note how many atheists are liberal socialist in their politics including the late Christopher Hitchens.They may believe they have shaken off their religious heritage but in their very political positions ie socialism the root of which is altruism they are simply manifesting it in another form. As the heart of Christian faith is of course altruism, in advocating socialism they have in effect merely substituted the power of the state for the power of god.

Hitchens  argued that human goodness and a sense of right and wrong are innate - hence his rather astonishing claim  that a young child knows the difference between right and wrong without being taught, rather than being born tabula rasa and that it is perfectly possible to have a moral philosophy without any ties to religious thought and to suggest otherwise was an insult to all decent non believers.Whilst the latter is undoubtedly true the idea of innate goodness is of religious origin.

It was no accident  that the early socialists called their brave new world of socialist planing the New Jerusalem acknowledging thereby the religious foundations of altruist thought.

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