Free Thought 1911/3

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Atheism

The existence or non-existence of God was once a scientific question, which he used to determine the best methods and best knowledge of science at that time. There was an argument against it, and scientifically excited mankind was tireless in clarifying even the smallest details. It was an extremely important thing, the importance and legitimacy of which was given by the psychology of evolving science. Out of the souls of humanity, exposed to and struggling with the mysteries of physical and spiritual life, the thousands of wonders of nature, a naive and violently created world system emerged whose axis, cornerstone, solution and justification were all a concept, a word: God! For his uneasy, laborious, much-researched work, his shadow covered his majesty. He is the beginning and the end, he created the world from scratch. Knows everything; sources of observation, doubt, through streams and rivers like the sea, lead to it, disappearing without trace. Instead of shreds of knowledge, it offers complete and perfect incomprehension, a sacred mystery. The uneven, diverse worlds are “covered with smooth water; the human eye cannot see its bottom. He is the tire on the body of the world that would otherwise fall apart into tiny pieces; what trouble it from them rebuild! The light emanating from his being gives a level and shape to things that can only be distinguished in the darkness. He maintains, he justifies society. Under his leadership, the world is an amazingly organized bankhouse that pays everyone fairly; but the banknotes alone bear his signature.

History, philosophy, art and morals all deal with it. They accumulate evidence for their existence, build their universe. They create their personality, describe in detail and in color their earthly and afterlife justice, which is the most truthful basis of all. He controls the actions. Hundreds of thousands of blood is drawn for the letters of his name, and the saints and martyrs profess every word that relates to him or his environment with their lives and deaths. In his name they organize churches, rule nations, and anoint kings; millions are consciously dealt with and, if the glory of his name so requires, millions are sent to death. He is the fountain of all the righteous, he alone builds all morals! And when young science first communicated his unbiased knowledge based on observation and experimentation, he stood at the center of the world's interest, which burned relentlessly on everyone who approached him.

[94] The bonfire no longer threatens science as it once did In Galilee time and the Church no longer takes science hints. It does not associate its goals and interests with the word. He doesn't insist rigidly to the scientific basis, which in its existence thanks as it begins to wobble beneath it. Not afraid of the foundation, though the building that serves him as a comfortable home. He doesn't more that the sun revolves around the earth and shows great willingness to accept the doctrine of descent. It gives it millions of years the days of creation are not bound by God and his court is original overview. God has become simpler, more retired, changed old habits; who used to be our ministers, requiem and pillars He added no weight to his number for ceremonies, understands the prayer of non-believers, resigned old wonders; they find all joy in the land possessions of their servants, they has finally found a suitable occupation. The universe even without it, the "purified" divine faith is willing to settle down in reforming it, gladly outsource heaven to either Sinus. Only when it comes to its earthly institutions does it move and then he refers to the old God hurt by his emotions, who "if it weren't, it would have to be invented". If the existing social they call to eternal morality, then they curse the blasphemy blasphemy. The church gave up the details the more you emphasize the “essence”. And really, to his saints a well-organized army of various capabilities today it is only used for charity collection He does not like to talk about God in detail; would love to banish the universe into a remote corner and not without reason; since God all-knowing. Just keep your seal. The angry mask lagra, with which the people are fed, let it be called a trademark not to be mistaken for "false" doctrines. Let him sanctify the ordinances of the state-sustaining church! The church is not arguing, it is the church evades arguments, deceives science in its field from the square to get it sideways and attack it in the name of morality

And the science of opposition when it comes to details words, even more enthusiastic, now you do not feel much in the foreign realm to the fight. He does not dare to move under the weight of his words. The knower a woman who once wrote her righteousness to the sky with her blood is a noble one capitalist science whines. He rejects the problem of God, a he does not meet him in his area. The suns and stars are invisible without a conductor, he is whistled in perfect harmony songs as they drop their pre-calculated levels. A physiologist in his textbooks there is no word about God and the Leo and what he can hear tatlanságáról. In geography, heaven or poke are in vain and even the most inviting soul does not hope to be the dé they will discover it around the corner. Geology can not be created by the world which six days should not be "literally" taken anyway The scientist refers to "taste." It shrugs when it comes to god word: "I don't know this gentleman."

But we who are fighting for enlightenment and the rights of millions of people [95] we know. We'll see him step by step. For millennia, all injustice has been done in his name, and he has sanctified all wrongdoing. He is the one who maintains the misery of the mass and the robbery of the ruling classes. He assures us that everything is fine as it is, that everyone cares about their destiny and obeys silently, without murmuring. He stands in the way of all progress, and is present in the congregation of the righteous and the brave, to discourage all noble intentions with his bold and ostentatious superiority.

Don't let yourself be frightened! We must not disappear from our eyes! He alone knows where the point is, according to the Church, which is outside the earth, but from which we can turn it out of its corners. In it, alone, is rooted in countless institutions that no one else can justify, the injustice of which could be alleviated by nothing but his actual existence. Let us not let the root dry out from under them, and then have to eradicate them one by one, but lift them all from the ground at once! In spite of all the protest of the church and of morality, of every taste, we must raise the question with unremitting energy. To what extent is today's violent social order based on the actual existence of God in a superpowered class of people ?! And then there will be no more believing and just debating religious denomination, whether there is a god or not, will no longer have everyone's private conviction, which, of course, should not be shaken by blasphemy.
Géza Helvéth

Religion and Socialism

The more you see it, the more wonderful the mechanism of society appears to you. Against the wonders taught and preached by religions, thinkers often refer to the wonders of nature and rightly say that the organic memory of matter, which, for example, traverses the million-year journey of animal life through the human embryo for nine months, is more wonderful than all the gospel. miracle, even if it was scientifically justifiable. The miracles that result from the interruption or suspension of causation are far lesser, inferior to those which are born of the validity or operation of this law.

They rarely refer to the wonders of social life as emigrants from the country of theological thinking. However, if one of the hallmarks of the miracle is its amazing effect on the human mind, it is certain that the greatest surprises in this area come from the human mind beginning to reflect. For it was wonderful and wonderful to have Moses sprinkle water from the rock with a cane, and not least when Jesus walked unchallenged in Genesis; great thing and wonderful when X-ray looks into your chest, Ehrlich kills spirochetes, Blair flies the English Channel; but above all these are the social mechanisms by which a relatively small number of people can compel the vast majority of people to live a difficult, sober, and evil life that is necessarily worse than non-existence in the realm of reason and thought.

It is certain that some kind of magic would turn the world around every now and then to create a state where, for example, [106] today's landlords would have to live like their tenants, the owners of the ironworks and the smiths. mining stocks are owned like miners, kings or generals, like dog washes, ministers, or trustees, mayors, or street sweepers or caveman cleaners: then you are pretty sure you would hit the big man, iron and mine owners, smokers and miners, kings, dog washers, mayors, public-cleaners, ministers, dijnos, if they had a reason, or would they see the cause of an unbearable life for them, , which the world does not know. There's just one doubt in front of me and that is that they would not bear their lives at any cost. Not only general psychological reasons, but also some empirical and historical facts which prove the examples of resisting such profound but profound changes in defending the ruling society in a way that is very instructive and demonstrating the truth of our assumption. Since France has the decaying but great role to be the experimental colony of mankind, here we can take our examples. When the Great Revolution tried to touch the privileges of the nobles with less than a gentle hand - so much less dangerous in consequence than what I was conditionally talking about here - their right to inactivity and good life is the association of nobles with alien powers and they were also prepared to rescue them by the massacre of alien weapons. And when the Commune approached them slightly and threatened their prosperity and power in the event of a triumph over the great revolution, property, and modern social order, but with a great attack: the savagery of the resurrected and threatened rest beast shamed any imagination. way he was angry. Even with the great revolution and the full success of the Communens, the only consequence would have been that a minority of people would have had to live, live and eat, work just as the vast majority of people still live, eat and work.

It is quite obvious that there must be a great force that will endure, with peace or at least seemingly peace with the vast majority of humanity, a state against which a minority of humanity would fight with every conceivable force and escape suicide if it could not overcome it. The force that cultivates this miracle, the greatest, is society with its diverse, multifaceted, intricate institutions.

Culture has reduced man’s dependence on nature but increased his dependence on society. Never before has drought and hail decimated the food of men as much as urban politics, its never-catching whimsy destroys as much vitality [107] as the inseparable inherent in industrial work, it has never suffered so much from the heat of the tropics as the radiant heat of smelters. Nature did not allow the development of organs that would have forced living beings to act contrary to their interests. But society has created a general conscription by which the vast majority of people, even at the risk of their lives, are forced to defend an order that destroys it into a mere machine of work and reproduction; developed alcoholism, which anesthetizes the soul, degenerates the bodies of those living today and of generations to come, and, in addition, finds the means necessary to support the army and the entire state apparatus; and finally he also created a religious worldview that casts a cloak of eternity and order from God on this order.

It is in this capacity that a person who fights against the unjustity of the social order finds religion, and this drives them more or less into anti-religious struggles, it also puts teams at the service of free thought that are not very caring and even less quarrelsome or metaphysical. because. If religion were to try to answer questions that are not problems or inaccessible to science, if people were to give directions to those who believe in what God may believe, they might need: then religion and socialism, for example, could fit very well. with each other and certain that socialist propaganda would work much less with the anti-religious slogans of rationalism than it currently does. For the conflict does not take place at the point where, for example, religion preaches the spotless conception, but where religion, as the metaphysical gendarmerie and even prochole of social injustices, does not undertake precisely its superior work. The real source of the conflict is not in the unscientific teachings of religion, but in its antisocial practical operation. Where anti-religious sentiment develops in large masses, its real parents are not the unscientific nature of the religious worldview, but the antisocial nature of church practice.

The syndicalists on the far left of the socialist movement also tend to argue against parliamentarism that parliament and the entire system of representation are so intertwined with the rule of the bourgeoisie that this body cannot be used for the specific purposes of the labor movement. The function, the function, has adapted the organ so much that it will not be possible to use it for any purpose contrary to its previous operation. I think this perception is wrong. The fact that the parliamentary constitution has so far not been used anywhere for the purposes of the labor movement: for example, for the expropriation of the means of production, depended not on the parliamentary constitution but on the hitherto unpowered power of the labor movement [108]. This is a controversy that will only be definitively clarified by future developments. For religion as well, perhaps the question could be set up in this way. If religion cannot break away from the functioning it exerts among its social conservatives, it will inevitably face the most powerful factor in social development: capitalism has increased, swollen socialism. In this case, in my view, fate is sealed. An excellent Catholic writer, De Maistre, said the pope and the executioner were the main safeguards of the social order. If he is right, and now things are as if he is right, then the pope will disappear with the executioner, and the priest with the gendarme. However, if religion itself frees itself from this unworthy destiny of servants, then there are very great, very beautiful, and very noble opportunities for development. Perhaps the idea that religion is in need of a savior, and if there is a savior and redemption for religion, can only be a sacrilege - it can only be “socialism that does not know religion and God”.
Kunfi Zsigmond

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Original Publication: Szabadgondolat, 1.3, March 1911
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