tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post1680857847426116493..comments2024-03-28T12:34:14.649-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: The only antidote to ideological violenceVictor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-78068594818948654492016-04-13T08:27:46.141-07:002016-04-13T08:27:46.141-07:00Do we really need an "antidote to ideological...Do we really need an "antidote to ideological violence"? Is "ideological violence" always, and without exception, a moral evil?IlĂonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-25922931774174450502016-04-06T22:09:49.769-07:002016-04-06T22:09:49.769-07:00I think Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and others prove that...I think Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and others prove that the worker's paradise would nit have been all it's cracked up to be. The only Marxists who never abused power were the Trotskyites, because they never controlled a country.<br /><br />We know capitalism is abusive if you don't check power. It's obviously not connected to religion per se but to any notion that temporal power has a transcendent justification. As you said when the end justifies the means. Reinhold Niebuhr said that when the end justifies the means the means usually wind up negating the end. <br /><br />That new atheism winds up using coercion to obtain it's ends is a clue as to which way they would go if they had any real power. I think Atheist Watch has proven that new Atheism is Orwellian. Thus they would redefine abuse to rationalize their abuses. Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-67369249049316738192016-04-06T18:40:39.135-07:002016-04-06T18:40:39.135-07:00Reading that Loftus article was the intellectual e...Reading that Loftus article was the intellectual equivalent of watching those epic fail videos where skateboarders and bikers and other would-be daredevils wipe out in horrible ways. It's funny to watch, but you just can't help but feel sorry for them, either.<br /><br />New Atheism is filled with wannabe and self-described intellectuals, most of whom have no idea what they are doing besides repeating insults and one-liners they found on the internet. It's the Donald Trump of atheism/theism discussion - big on laughs and attacks, horrible on details and defense.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593005679430527458noreply@blogger.com