Comments on: Massimo Pigliucci: “Politics, Philosophy and Atheism.”

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:07:09 +0000

Why do so many atheists lean towards the left of the political spectrum?

Because obviously God hates liberals and liberals like to be hedonistic, Satan worshiping atheists…

(Though oddly, I am far less a hedonist now, than I was years ago – and I wasn’t an atheist years ago…)

By: doug l

doug l — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:23:00 +0000

I think if one were to google up the phrase “political compass” and read some of the perspective there, and take the quiz, they would see that trying to describe the political landscape from the one dimensional shadow it casts upon space within the agreed upon framework we’d see that we’re confusing the shadow for its reality and understand better just as to what is or what isn’t a liberal or conservative…or what is “right versus left”. Those terms are archaic remnants from the era when the French kings attempted to impose some order on their parliamentary body. Give it a few minutes of your time but beware, you’ll never be fooled by the illusion that the shadow is the reality again.

By: davem

davem — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:21:28 +0000

Depends what you mean by ‘liberal’. From this side of the pond, the word ‘liberal’ when used in the US, seems to imply anything left of Attila the Hun.

By: Mike Haubrich, FCD

Mike Haubrich, FCD — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:53:20 +0000

Gosh, what a well-written blurb!