the Dao of Atheism : | : the Shaman Atheist 11/81 |
Engine and alternator and U-joint and tires and accelerator and steering wheel and headlights and bucket seats all together make a car, but it is the space within inside the empty seats that makes it useful.
Clay and glass and plastic are molded to create
Houses and skyscrapers are built
Being and profit come from |
In Europe, cultural homogeneity has been a religious as well as political
goal. Since religious beliefs supported belief in the State itself, any and
all religious dissent was declared a-theistic and eliminated. These theistic
atheists were those who, like Socrates and the first Christians, pursued a
thoughtful and spiritual life apart from the state religion. Later the term
'atheism' came to signify a codified form of religion antagonistic to the
established privileged structures and apolitical mysticism.
Atheisms in both the East and West pursued the liberation of humanity from
what it perceived to be a corruptive domination: Western atheism pursued
liberation from socio-religious structure, while Eastern atheism pursued
liberation from materialistic and relational attachment. But there is utopia. |