Re: ca[r]rol and lou on religion

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

gyanananda@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> >The dead do not know they are dead, and hence
> >death is a tragedy only for the living.
>
> How do you know this? Is this fact or is this
> assertion without concrete investigation?

It's part of my cultural inheritance. I am an atheist by
birthright as it were. It allows me to spend my time
thinking of rather more important things than the
trivialities of immortality.

The important thing is not to waste time proving that
humans are not immortal. That is a given. The point
of discussion is (a) how humans become adjusted to
that fact and (b) how marxists relate to people who
are still caught up in the metaphysical and historical
tangles which the doctrine generates.

Carrol