A very important discussion by Engels about materialism:

1892 English Edition Introduction to Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"

[General Introduction and the History of Materialism]
#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #materialism #theism #agnostic #religion #god #atheism

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/int-mat.htm

IN HAPPIER HAPPY NEWS,

MY NEW BOOK IS OUT.

APPETITE FOR ANTITHESIS: (DE)KNOWING GOD IN A LENTEN PRACTICE

Foreword by N. Irish philosopher #PeterRollins.

So, happy #Lent a week in -- but it's not too late to give up God for a season. My book can help!

Links and book description following in thread!

#theism
#atheism
#pyrotheology
#RadicalTheology
#DeathOfGodTheology

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I'm now an apatheist (actually, I've been one for a while now, but I just found out what apatheism is). I just don't care about arguing with people about if god exists or not. It doesn't matter. If god exists, it clearly can't or won't do anything. If it doesn't, then it doesn't. Who cares!?

There are serious problems (capitalist oppression and exploitation, climate change, racism, sexism, etc) that we should be focusing on instead.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheism

Lack of education and the conservative attack on any non-parochial education explains a lot. Ignorance and lack of questioning leads to authoritarianism; it is all about power and controlling people's minds by teaching them not to think. Interesting article attached.

#BoostingIsSharing
https://bigthink.com/thinking/a-c-grayling-we-dont-need-to-bring-back-religion-we-need-to-bring-back-education/

Migrating over from @jo I’m 86% #geek, enjoy #tech, live in #nz / #aotearoa, like to document my life and ponder #theism, #nzpol, #family, work in #aec - #engineering and #compliance / #fieldtechs