Stand with Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan -- with democracy and civilization against tyranny and barbarism
posted by Infidel753 at 5:05 AM
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
US out of UN, UN out of US
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
4 Comments:
Great quote. Instead of radical, they should be called what they are: necrophiliacs.
"By necrophilia is meant love for all that is violence and destruction; the desire to kill; the worship of force; attraction to death, to suicide, to sadism; the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic by means of "order." The necrophile, lacking the necessary qualities to create, in his impotence finds it easy to destroy because for him it serves only one quality: force." - Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
(Yes, I just posted another quote from that book on another article of yours… I love that book).
SG: Not a bad idea, but if I called the jihadists necrophiliacs, I might get sued for defamation by people who have sex with corpses.
The objection is to people who use "radical" to mean "extremist". If they mean "extremist", they should just say it.
When it comes to Islamist terrorists I prefer radical extremists or radicalized extremists.
Hitchens, given his far-left background, was using the word 'radical" in a rather specific way. Unfortunately these distinctions of meaning are becoming lost now as the meanings of words become generalized.
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