/lit/ - Literature

Is atheism even capable of creating culture? All secular philosophies are just pits to trap midwits who refer to anything beyond prevailing modernist attitudes as a "LARP". Seems to me like atheism can't even produce any sincere art of it's own, only derivative parodies of and seething towards Christianity.

The trouble is that New Atheism made itself unfashionable, which sadly lead to our current backlash of insincere, ironic 'cultural Christians' that you see on /pol/ and so on.

A few things led to this. Firstly, the realization that with Christianity gone, something will have to fill that void - and in a lot of Western countries, European in particular, it looks as if that'll be Islam. Secondly there was the realization, encapsulated by ol' Chris Hitchens, that trying to unite atheists is the equivalent of trying to "herd cats" - and so all of these ironic Christian LARP'ers you see, who are allegedly 'Christian', on certain threads here for example, are really just pretenders to a throne of unity. That is, something that can unite people - or did so in the past, such as religion/race/etc.

Nietzsche was right to say that God is dead - his second, somewhat more tacit implication, is rarely appreciated: that mankind was not ready for it. Hence the worldwide regression we now see in the face of more primitive, unified forces - such as Islam/ISIS/etc.

I do like to give the New Atheists credit for calling a spade a spade when it comes to Islam. The trouble is that they couldn't admit, with the exception of Hitchens/etc, that whilst all religions are shitty, some are worse than others.

Dawkins had a particular bone to pick with Christianity, for example, having been 'buggered' by a priest or something in his youth.

>All these German Idealists

Nothing more than Feels vs Enlightenment.

Guess what, the Enlightenment won.

>>8207169

>trolling hume posters for years

That's exactly what David Hume would say in a Kant thread.

We know it's you, you fat empiricist fuck.

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>>8140805

>Capitalism isn't an ideology

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>>7003766
Well, OP probably looks like this...

>>6816611
b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but none of that counts
n-n-new testament...

>>6803025
I guess, although I'm not very familiar with him.

>>6742969
I lied. Sorry, that was my only /lit/ related one. I thought I had a Stirner, but I was wrong.

Positivist?

>>6148058
Good banter lad :DDDDDDDD