Posted by
Greg England on Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:55:41 PM
Bill Maher has made a movie that mocks religious faith, in a "shooting fish in a barrel" way that makes liberals feel smug, whilst providing little illumination:
Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury has come out in defence of Christ.
Of course he hasn't, he is too busy praising Marx, Dawkins and Hitchens:
And I quote:
"Marx long ago observed the way in which unbridled capitalism became a kind of mythology, ascribing reality, power and agency to things that had no life in themselves; he was right about that, if about little else ........ The mythologies and abstractions, the pseudo-objects of much modern financial culture, are in urgent need of their own Dawkins or Hitchens."
Well, here's my reply for the Archbishop of Canterbury:
"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche.
PS: If you have never heard of Nietzsche then I don't recommend him. He is a seriously nihilistic philosopher ...
... (his collected works were a gift from Hitler to Mussolini for his sixtieth birthday!)
Nevertheless, it's these thinkers who have shaped the modern world (like Marx) so it's important to at least be aware that they exist. And the internet is full of liberals who are busy rewriting history and apologising for Nietzsche (poor, poor misunderstood Nietzsche ... ah, didums).
So, if you are still curious, then I highly recommend this Catholic analysis:
Unlike a liberal analysis, this article pulls no punches and tells it how it really is.