Philosophies and Religion
the Pillars of Unbelief:


   
Just as we have pillars of Christian faith, the Apostles, so are there individuals who have become Pillars of Unbelief:

Machiavelli:
    1496-1527, the inventor of “the new morality”. Niccolo Machiavelli is the father of pragmatism, “the end justify the means” — any means that work.  Machiavelli sounds like not only the first pragmatist but the first American pragmatist! Machiavelli

French Revolution:

    1789-1799: It was a false "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", the same motto of the Free-Masonry. Indeed the French Revolution was the guillotine of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". There was no Freedom but the tyranny and terrorism of the masses, instead of Equality there was a brutal political, social and religious prejudice, and the Fraternity was marked by thousands of massacres and the Reign of Terror.
    It started Democracy in France. In the USA, Democracy started 13 years before, in 1776 with the Constitution of the USA.

    The French Revolution history, starts from Louis XVI's marriage to Austria Princess Marie Antoinette, through the turmoiling 10 years of revolution, the Reign of Terror, (1789-1799), till Napoleon Bonaparte ruled France in 1799.

    The Fall of Bastille indicated the start of the French Revolution, the new era for French. The date has become the national holiday of France, July 14, 1789. The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church perforce underwent radical restructuring. While France would oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years after the First Republic fell to a coup by Napoleon Bonaparte, the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to the ancient régime, and eclipses all subsequent. The Reign of Terror resulted in the death of over 250,000 during a nine-month period; eventually it spun beyond the control of its leaders, and Robespierre himself was executed by the very system of justice and terror he had implemented in his effort to save the revolution.
    Before 1789 there was the Royal and Louis XVI era, deposed and executed by the Revolution, with his Wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, the face of the Revolution, beheaded in October of 1793.
    The final phase the French Revolution ends with a coup d'etat by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799; France returns to dictatorial rule. Napoleon took charge with the New France crowning himself Emperor in 1804. When he lost his final battle at Waterloo in Belgium in 1815, the victors sent him to the faraway island of Saint Helena, where he died in 1821. The eagle, his preferred symbol, had taken its last flight. Links to the French Revolution

Kant:
   
1724-1804, the subjectivizer of Truth . Immanuel Kant, more than any other thinker, gave impetus to the typically modern turn from the objective to the subjective. This may sound fine until we realize that it meant for him the redefinition of truth itself as subjective. And the consequences of this idea have been catastrophic. There id not objective truth for Kant, the only truth nis waht you believe and think.The business of religion, according to Kant, is something subjective and private, not objective and public. Religion, in short, equals ethics. And since Christian ethics is very similar to the ethics of most other major religions, it doesn't matter whether you are a Christian or not; all that matters is whether you are a “good person.”
    If we ever engage in conversation about our faith with unbelievers, we know from experience that the most common obstacle to faith today is not any honest intellectual difficulty, like the problem of evil or the dogma of the trinity, but the assumption that religion cannot possibly concern facts and objective truth at all; that any attempt to convince another person that your faith is true — objectively true, true for everyone — is unthinkable arrogance. Kant

Marx:

   
1818-1883, the false Moses for the masses, brain of Atheistic Communism. Karl Marks “Communist Manifesto”, “the specter of communism,” was one of the key moments in history. Published in 1848, 'the year of revolutions' throughout Europe, it is, like the Bible, essentially a philosophy of history, past and future. All past history is reduced to class struggle between oppressor and oppressed, master and slave, whether king vs. people, priest vs. parishioner, guild- master vs. apprentice, or even husband vs. wife and parent vs. child. Love is totally denied or ignored; competition and exploitation are the universal rule. Marx
    Solution: Marx, like Moses, is the prophet who leads the new Chosen People, the proletariat, out of the slavery of capitalism into the Promised Land of communism across the Red Sea of bloody worldwide revolution and through the wilderness of temporary, dedicated suffering for the party, the new priesthood.   
 

Nietzsche:
   
1844-1900, the self-proclaimed “Anti-Christ”... “God is dead,”... so is man, morality, love, freedom, hope, democracy, the soul and ultimately, sanity. No one shows this more vividly than Nietzsche... he was an atheist and died insane — a fate which may well await anyone who looks too long into his books. Nietzsche

Freud:
   
1856-1939, the founder of the “sexual revolution”. Sigmund Freud's most influential teaching is his sexual reductionism. As an atheist, Freud reduces God to a dream of man. As a materialist, he reduces man to his body, the human body to animal desire, desire to sexual desire and sexual desire to genital sex. All are oversimplifications. Freud     

Sartre:
    1905-1980, the existentialist apostle of absurdity.
Jean-Paul Sartre may be the most famous atheist of the 20th century, however, he has made atheism such a demanding, almost unendurable, experience that few can bear it.
  
 Comfortable atheists who read him become uncomfortable atheists, and uncomfortable atheism is a giant step closer to God. In his own words, “Existentialism is nothing else than an attempt to draw all the consequences of a coherent atheistic position.” For this we should be grateful to him.
    He called his philosophy “existentialism” because of the thesis that “existence precedes essence.” What this means concretely is that “man is nothing else than what he makes of himself.” Since there is no God to design man, man has no blueprint, no essence. His essence or nature comes not from God as Creator but from his own free choice.
    Unfortunately, Sartre contends that this disproves God, for if there were a God, man would be reduced to a mere artifact of God, and thus would not be free. He constantly argues that human freedom and dignity require atheism. His attitude is like that of a cowboy in a Western, saying to God as to an enemy cowboy: “This town ain't big enough for both you and me. One of us has to leave.” Sartre
 

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