The de-deification culture — including the sciences — will modify every aspect of how life gets lived in geographic areas laid waste by the zoroastrian-judeo-xian-islamic moralized worldview.

We still can learn from Homer, Herodotus, Democritus, Thycidides, Sophocles, Epicurus . . . they are our direct ancestors, yet unaffected because unafflicted by xianity.

In Atheist Manifesto (2006) French philosopher Michel Onfray conducts two succinct thought experiments: one on Western ideology about persons (body, “the flesh”) and the other on the Western legal conception of punishment. (These are contained in chapter 3, sections 3 and 4.)

Essentially, Onfray asks two questions.

1. What happens to our concept of a person when we reject the pseudo-hierarchy running from “matter” (filth) to “spirit” (purity)?

2. What happens to the concept of punishment when we reject the judicial presupposition of “always being able to choose to do otherwise” (complete free-will)?

Part of the meaning of Nietzsche’s infamous sentence “God is dead” resides in following out the “logic” of concepts altered according to a worldview which is “anti-supernatural” through and through.

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