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[Anonymous No.6793510]

>How religion was treated in this new thought is the point to be noted here. In spite of the leaders' diversity of opinion, their common attitude concerning religion was always critical, and most of them regarded religion as useless.30
Ts'ai Yuian-p'ei, while not positively denying religion, stated that it is of no use in modern times when science has made such advances, and that "religious truths become clear as a result of investigation".[3]" Ch'en Tu-hsiu insisted
that one should oppose traditional religion in order to develop science. As for Christianity, he severely criticised certain irrational elements of the Christian doctrine and defects of the church, in spite of his appreciation of the personality of Jesus."1 But some people definitely opposed both Christianity and Christ himself. In an article entitled "What is Jesus?", Chu Chih-hsin
concluded that "Jesus is an idol which is fair spoken, ill-natured, narrowminded, selfish, irascible and revengeful".33

>In September 1920, the executive committee of the Young China Association passed the proposal made by its members residing in Paris, that anyone who
had religious faith of any kind should be excluded from membership. As this decision led to a controversy, the Association held special lecture meetings concerning religious problems in Peking and Nanking, where the opinions of
intellectual leaders were clearly stated.34 This was in 1920 and 1921. Bertrand
Russell was one of the speakers who spoke out against religion.

Was Bertrand Russel the Christopher Hitchens of his time? Is this seen in his work on the history of philosophy?

Also, Atheism btfoing Christianity thread