superuniverse wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:14 am
JimC wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:07 am
Just checking on whether you knew that he was an atheist. Carry on...
Not even close. He had a millennial faith in a future
earthly paradise, a feature he shares with all true religion. The agent of this utopian transformation is the subject of the FBI document, especially since the working classes have forfeited their revolutionary heritage.
Sure, he had a vision (admirable perhaps, but somewhat unrealistic) of a future humanist state built on authentic human interaction. But, he had not the slightest belief in the supernatural, not your nasty little god, not anyone's god. He would have been both amused in your co-option of his beliefs, and appalled by your delight in the medieval concepts of divine punishment that provide you with a sick form of satisfaction, probably aberrantly sexual in nature.