Normally I don’t promote things that Bob Avakian does, (See Avakian—worse than just a bad writer—he
acts like a condescending savior) but he
is a devout atheist who has been supporting an atheist and Marxist agenda.
Cornel West claims to be a Christian Revolutionary. This will make an interesting
dialog to those who happen to live in the New York City area. I don’t. I do imagine
someone will record this and distribute it at a later date. Then we can all see
it.
My
feelings on this are that religion is a part of humanity at this time and
trying to divorce religious people from revolution will be a mistake. We can’t
expect people to give up both capitalism and religion all at once. I’m also not
saying that religious people can’t be leaders in a revolution. We saw that can
happen in Nicaragua (see Does communism work?—Does capitalism?) in the 1980s and
we need to allow that participation to continue on to any revolution we have. I
still support atheism and people’s rights to believe that as I basically do (See M-theory
and the defense of atheism and humanist ideas).
But it is suicide to insist that all revolutionaries have to be atheists.
-សតិវអតុ
From Revolution:
A historic Dialogue Between Bob Avakian and Cornel West on
Revolution and Religion: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion
will take place at Riverside Church on November 15. ….
…..1. This is a chance to come see and hear
Bob Avakian live! This is a very rare opportunity to see him in person
and hear what this revolutionary leader and architect of a whole new framework
for the emancipation of all of humanity is saying about the prospects for
revolution and what transformations have to be undertaken to truly get free of
the confines and horrors of the present system. How could you not want to
be there?
2. This is a chance to see and hear Bob Avakian and Cornel West
sharing a public stage together for the very first time, rolling up their
sleeves and dialoguing together, exploring some of the important things they
agree on and some of the important things they don’t agree on, no doubt
surprising and challenging their audience to think more deeply, study more
critically, reflect on how they might step up their own participation—with all
this taking place in an atmosphere of love, mutual respect, and principled
struggle, between these two people, with the shared passion for emancipation of
the most oppressed and all of humanity front and center. How could
you not want to be there?
3. This is a chance to experience what they have to say on
a topic, Revolution and
Religion: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion, that
is objectively very important. Not so much because of what any of you, as
individuals, may personally think about religion. Both believers and
non-believers are very welcome at this Dialogue. But individual belief or
non-belief is not the heart of the matter on this occasion. The reason
the subject of this particular Dialogue is so important right now is because
the topic of religion (any religion, all the many different kinds of religion)
matters deeply to hundreds of millions of people, and even billions of people,
not only in this country but all around the world. We all happen to be
living at a moment in time where that is very much the reality: Religion really
matters to a whole lot of people, and shapes many people’s thinking and
actions. But what is religion’s place, what is its role in relation to
fighting injustices and in advancing towards truly emancipatory social
revolution? Can religion help with this? Or is it a hindrance and gets in
the way? These are some of the questions Bob Avakian and Cornel West are
going to be batting around and exploring together, sharing their points of
unity as well as their differences with a broad audience. Again, how
could you not want to be there?
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