George Orwell had some interesting insight on not living in the Age
of Faith : " One cannot have any worthwhile picture of the future unless
one realizes how much we have lost by the decay of Christianity ". In
Orwell's nightmare book " 1984 " what has been lost is the human soul.
" Imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever ". Did not a character in Dostoevsky's " The Possessed " say " if God does not exist , then everything is permitted " ? Today I suspect that our ruling class are the true " New Atheists ". For them indeed everything is permitted. And EGO, SELF is absolute.No place for divinity here. Just Ayn Rand's " Virtue of Selfishness ". There still remains that mysterious Invisible Hand.
" Imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever ". Did not a character in Dostoevsky's " The Possessed " say " if God does not exist , then everything is permitted " ? Today I suspect that our ruling class are the true " New Atheists ". For them indeed everything is permitted. And EGO, SELF is absolute.No place for divinity here. Just Ayn Rand's " Virtue of Selfishness ". There still remains that mysterious Invisible Hand.
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