pz

I think I agree with you. Compared to being imprisoned in a gulag work camp, starved and beaten, christianity looks a little bit appealing.

Marcel

I guess that counts for atheists who like replying to Christian posts, too.

Christians are welcome! Whether they want to be converted to the non-belief or not.

Regards, Marcel.

Marcel

Adding 'humanistic' to this ethic, I agree with you fully. As an atheist I acknowledge that my culture and set of morals (Dutch, western European) have been shaped by these philosophical movements. Empirically we could say that they now keep Western society what it is, and therefore I will be an advocate for this set of morals, as long as it enhances social coherence and the survival of traditions.

yguy

I dare you to read The Gulag Archipelago and continue ascribing such shallowness of motivation to this man.

Gurdur

ROFL !

Care to explain to us about the author's open antisemitism ?

yguy

Truth to tell, I only read one volume of the three. What anti-semitism?

Gurdur

ROFLMAO !
The antisemitism he has often professed in real life, that's what !


Maybe you should know a bit more about someone before you start pontificating about them.

babelfish

Can you imagine an atheist going on a Christian board to warn his fellow infidels away?

Can you picture me going on CF and saying "I've been here for a few years, and I must warn all you other infidels, if you keep coming to this board, there's a distinct danger that you will be converted to Christianity"?

Just a personal observation about the tenuous grasp many Christians appear to have upon their belief system.

If your beliefs are indeed "the Truth," what danger is there in being with people who disagree with you?

yguy

OK, googling on solzhenitsyn + anti-semitic gives about 900 results. I looked at 7 or 8, most of which, predictably, didn't address the question. Here's the only one that did:

http://www.jewishsf.com/bk010831/ip29a.shtml

But the controversial author takes a position on the czarist-era pogroms at odds with most historians. Solzhenitsyn, 83, blames the pogroms on a grass-roots movement, exculpating the Russian state from any responsibility in the anti-Jewish attacks.

He also blames the "liberal intelligentsia" -- often a code word for Jews -- for exaggerating the extent of the pogroms.

<snip>

"Solzhenitsyn is not an anti-Semite. He remains a banner of my generation, for Jews and non-Jews," said Mark Kajdan, a Jewish researcher with the Russian Academy of Sciences.

So what we have here, evidently, is a bunch of jewish intellectuals crying racism because they were criticized - and a Jew who says he isn't anti-semitic.

Your move, wiseguy.

Amie

Hi yguy
I like you