Yes. I do.
Do you have a dialectical materialist worldview?
Do you condemn respect for people who believe in God?
Do you hold religion to be harmful?
Do you believe that religion "should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized and exposed?
Do you seek to subordinate religion?
Then, I hate to tell you, but what you have is a MILITANT ATHEISM.
Do you have a dialectical materialist worldview? - No.
Do you condemn respect for people who believe in God? - Yes.
Do you hold religion to be harmful? - Yes.
Do you believe that religion "should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized and exposed? - Yes.
Do you seek to subordinate religion? - No.
So, I guess since the answer to all of your questions
wasn't yes, by your definition, I'm not a militant atheist. Not that I would care, if I were. I have made my opinion of militant atheists clear. I'll take a militant atheist over a militant Christian, or a militant Islamist any day. Only one of those is guaranteed to not try to kill you.
And, by the way, my post was never directed at you. You weren't the intellectually dishonest jackass who tried to claim that Christianity isn't a religion.
If you are an atheist then by definition you do have a dialectical materialist worldview. If you condemn respect for people who believe in God, and you hold religion to be harmful and you believe it should be countered and criticized then by inspection you are attempting to subordinate religion.
Actually you answered yes to the key ones and lied on the others, so yes, you are most definitely a militant atheist. Even the Mod
westwall, who is agnostic, said you were. Or did you forget that?
That's a lie. Dialectic Materialism is an
economic theory, and has nothing to do with theology. By confusing the two, all you have done is expose your hatred for all atheists, your militant Christian bigotry, and your own prejudices. You are dismissed.
And, by your reasoning, you want to subordinate atheism. So, you are admit that you are a militant Christian?
Dialectical materialism is a philosophy of science and nature which effectively says there is nothing but the material world, Mr. PhD. So I didn't confuse anything and even if I had your logic indicates that you are a patient of psychiatry rather than a doctor of psychiatry.
Proposed, as part of the
economic theories of Marx, and Engels, and is found nowhere outside of Classic Communism. It is actually in reference to two different concepts found in Marx's theories - Dialectics, and Materialism:
Materialism versus idealism
Philosophical materialism is the outlook which explains that there is only one material world. There is no Heaven or Hell. The universe, which has always existed and is not the creation of any supernatural being, is in the process of constant flux. Human beings are a part of nature, and evolved from lower forms of life, whose origins sprung from a lifeless planet some 3.6 billion or so years ago. With the evolution of life, at a certain stage, came the development of animals with a nervous system, and eventually human beings with a large brain. With humans emerged human thought and consciousness. The human brain alone is capable of producing general ideas, i.e., thinking. Therefore matter, which existed eternally, existed and still exists independently of the mind and human beings. Things existed long before any awareness of them arose or could have arisen on the part of living organisms.
Now, this
is a common belief among all atheists. had you simply said that all atheists are materilaists, I would have agreed with you. But, you didn't say that. You insisted that they also ascribe to dialectics.
You see, Dialectics is a method of thinking and interpreting the world of both nature and society. It is a way of looking at the universe, which sets out from the axiom that everything is in a constant state of change and flux. But not only that. Dialectics explains that change and motion involve contradiction and can only take place through contradictions. So instead of a smooth, uninterrupted line of progress, we have a line which is interrupted by sudden and explosive periods in which slow, accumulated changes (quantitative change) undergoes a rapid acceleration, in which quantity is transformed into quality. Dialectics is the logic of contradiction. (
source)
This is
not true of all atheists. If you are going to use terms, you really should know what those terms actually means. You went to far when you insisted that all atheists hold to a
dialectic materialistic world view. Most of us
don't believe that all change must come with conflict. In fact, many of us would prefer to bring about change with as little conflict as possible.
This is why I have you on ignore. You read some bullshit somewhere, once. And now you spout it, as if you understand it, because you are a good little sheep, and theswe are the things you were told to say to atheists when you oppose them. Have a good day.
