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2021-10-05
To my comrades,
I argue we should adopt a position of more explicit atheism under
ASF-Perth.
This atheism should not be of the Imperialist kind. By this I mean the
weaponised 'anti-theism' of, say, Dawkins, Hitchens, or Harris.
Anglo-american, purely capitalist atheism is just neoconservatism, the
kind we see in the mouths of the SBS or the ABC--speaking
patronisingly of the women 'left behind' in Afghanistan.
A better way of talking about the _explicitly anarchist_ atheism I
think we should adopt within ASF-Perth is to describe what I imagine
atheism is not.
Atheism is a rejection of the supernatural. In our dealings, ASF-Perth
should not merely refuse membership to leaders of religious
organisations--although this is sufficient for the purposes of our
Constitution--but we should resist adopting the methods of spiritual
or religious practices.
By this I mean we should be firm materialists. We should draw
political judgements according to natural descriptions and
observations alone. This type of behaviour was not alien to Bakunin,
Goldman, and Kropotkin. These firm scientists of anarchism did not let
the dominion of spiritualist or religious thought cloud their
judgement about what they reckoned reality to be.
In ASF-Perth should be firm in its rejection of Religion andS
wepbweiritualism--what really amounts to supernaturalist Idealism. I am
very serious about this.
I am not worried about what others might say about my attitude. More
and more young people are turning to anarchism because of their
irreligiousness. I only need to draw your attention to the numbers
tabulated by the ABS. Religion is on the out in Perth.
To health and anarchy,
Vidak.