Luigi Cascioli: Who are these atheists?
17 12 06 - 21:49 Atheism, believers say, impoverishes mankind and stands in the way of the greatest goods that are given to man: God, the soul,and immortality. The direct causes of atheism are the wrong kind of upbringing, a perverse environment, and a licentious lifestyle.To counter this, Brandlangh wrote that conscious atheism permits human happiness to be reached which is denied by religions and that the life of true atheists is more virtuous because they are freer and more indulgent than believers are who are in perpetual conflict with themselves and their neighbors due to their faith which makes their behavior irrational.
Among those who have fought against the immorality of religions there are some of the greatest moral figures of history including Lalande, Helvétius, Berthelot, Kropotkine, Bakounine, Tchernychevsky, Myskline, Shelley, Carlyle, Holcroft, d'Owen, William Morris, Sylvain Maréchal, Laplace. These were all models of virtue and science without considering those belonging to a more remote history such as Buddha, Lao-tsèe, Confucious, Socrates, Parmenides, Epicurus and all the other philosophers and scientists who, although they were atheists or agnostics led a life which can be considered an example of what is socially considered most praiseworthy.
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