La gran masa de nuestros ateos latinoamericanos, de esos con los que me estoy viendo en discusiones sobre el proyecto de ley acerca del Estado Laico en mi país, representan a la perfección el secularismo histérico del que habla este artículo de Brendan O’Neill, un ateo libertario... como el mismo se auto-denomina.
Así se explica O´Neill la "cacería del Papa":
"The reason this crusade is so hysterical is because it is not really about the pope at all – it is about the New Atheists themselves. The contemporary pope-hunting springs from a secularist movement which feels incapable of asserting a sense of purpose or meaning in any positive, human-centred way – as the great atheists of old such as Marx or Darwin might have done – and which instead can only assert itself negatively, in contrast to the ‘evil’ of religion, by posturing against the alleged wickedness of institutionalised faith. It is the inner emptiness, directionless and soullessness of contemporary secularism – in contrast to earlier, Enlightened and more positive secular movements – which has given birth to the bizarre clamour for the pope’s head.
Secularism is in crisis"
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(si necesitan la traducción, háganmelo saber)
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