Comments by "sdrc92126" (@sdrc92126) on "Bret Weinstein \u0026 Heather Heying: Atheism Has Failed the West" video.

I know a couple of high profile atheists and have long held, 35+ years, that they are some of the most religious people that I know.
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@mattschrader5047 Marx was a theologian, not an economist. /communism is the utopia state (heaven on Earth) that is arrived at through the struggle of Socialism and human nature is reprogrammed. Man perfecting himself. And There is no limit to the amount of eggs that must be broken towards the great sacred omelette In secret though, it's all about reasserting a monarchy to be governed over by Plato's Philosopher Kings, the ideal form of government
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If civilization falls, can it ever get up again to our present level? We've used up all of the easy energy that got us to this point. Rome could have never developed solar panels or nuclear energy if all that they had to power their civilization was wood.
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Hyperdemocracy and the Gnostic Impulse -William Gairdner
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It has more to do with the destruction of the religion that spawned the civilization. Religion creates a culture which creates civilization. Spengler called civilization the death throes of a culture when it has depleted its energy and starts eating itself, doubting it's own foundations. I forget which philosopher said that Bacon was the beginning of the downfall of the West when he first introduced questioned its foundation.
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@Shei-vei Pre-Industrial revolution is as far as you can get.
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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
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@mattschrader5047 🎯Bingo. They are both gnostic religions, so is Star Trek, everything from HG Wells and most SciFI. Gnosticism is a set of related mythical ideologies, largely involving man transforming himself, like through UGX, into gods and taking his place as masters of the universe. 2001 has been described as the perfect gnostic myth. The majority of storylines coming out of Hollywood are promoting Gnosticism. People are unaware of the ideology.
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