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Secular zealots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_party
by amayne 16y ago
Secular zealots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_party
- alanh 16y agoAre you kidding me? Socialism is NOT secularism! Edit I’m objecting to the article pretending that secular zealotry is a thing like socialist zealotry or religious zealotry. Secularism is never itself a cause for zealotry. And the article even implies those who are passionate about secularism despise individuality. Absurd.
- amayne 16y agoCorrect. No one said that it was. My link was to the communist party which is an avowed secular organization. Unlike a group like the Christian Socialists or the Nazi party. I used them as an example of secular zealots because that particular movement killed more people than anyone else in the 20th century. And has religion pretty evenly matched for zealots. Just so you understand where I'm coming from, I'm an atheist (a very secular position).
- amayne 16y agoI mentioned "secular zealots who hate individuality" in fairness of my inclusion of "religious zealots". Just as not all religious people are zealots, not all secular people are zealots. As mentioned, I'm an atheist. Which would make me a secularist. So if there was any intentional ding, it was against those secular people (like communists) who devalue individuality and its expression through free choice. As far as saying secularism is never a cause for zealotry, that's just crazy. The French Revolution was filled with secular zealots...
- memetichazard 16y agoI think the article intended 'secular zealotry' to mean something more like 'nonreligious zealotry' - the zealots are secular, not that the zealots are zealous about secularism. This is intended to contrast against the religious zealots referred to in the previous sentence.