Mark Dozois – consider this "chilly inhumanity"

Link to Eyewitness Account of Hiroshima Bombing

Mark Dozois writes in his Feb. 5 letter "Chilly Inhumanity" that he watched the video of the Jordanian pilot being burned alive. The human being "screaming in agony until death." This soul shaking experience converts him into a cheer leader for our state terrorism war against terror?

Let him reflect on these thoughts of an eye witness to "Hiroshima Burned to Ashes":  "Among the hundreds of injured persons of whom you cannot tell the difference between male and female there were children screaming IT"S HOT, IT'S HOT and infants crying over the bodies of their mothers who appeared already dead."

As a believer in socialist internationalism I say : NO SUPPORT FOR THE U.S. WAR ON TERROR. There is not much of a moral choice here: state terrorism vs. fanatical gang terrorism? It is know-nothing ignorance to support our imperialist wars- which are never waged for humanitarian reasons. There is an awesome amount of honest sociological research behind this pacifist point of view.

Submitted to: letters@providencejournal.com

Should Humanists embrace Ayn Rand?

How can Humanists best respond to injustice? Not in the rude, mean spirited manner of the New Atheists putting up obnoxious ads on Rhode Island Public Transit Authority buses: "Godless, so are we."

Does Logic & Reason culminate in a reactionary social philosophy? Should Humanists embrace the Ayn Rand cult? What does her crackpot atheist cult classic "The Virtue of Selfishness" have to offer black rage in the streets of America this past week? Do Humanists want to make common cause with our ONE PERCENT plutocracy? How many of these super-rich people are oh-so-enlightened atheists, having liberated themselves from the superstitious fear of Hell for the injustice they perpetuate here on earth?

Clearly the New Atheism is giving moral support to our government's Crusade Against Islam, spreading its oh-so-enlightened  Islam-o-phobia. A scandalous  TORTURE REPORT of prisoners of war is being released today. Put the military bases on alert against THEIR evil! The evil of ISIS!

As a long time SOCIALIST,  I must ask my fellow Humanists if they think they are above the CLASS STRUGGLE? Has the New Atheism made peace with U.S. imperialism? What does Reason & Logic have to say about the madness of the capitalist way of life?

I can't imagine joining a New Atheist club where a Hitler and a Lenin can exchange mocking jokes about Jesus Christ rising from the dead. And joking too about his gospel of Love. What a fool!

The crackpot atheist Ayn Rand, of course, worshipped MONEY. Do we embrace her?

NOTE:  Of course, there is a long tradition of Judeo-Christian humanism. Did organized atheism ever sponsor even a two-bit SOUP KITCHEN?