Metal Reviews

I have no ideology in my views. I'm a Marxist just like Western society is subliminally empiricists. I'm not bent on some eschatological goal of utopia. Framework of thought =/= ideology.

As for the Maghreb, has your epiphany made you forget the latent Leftism in the Algerian War a la some Fanon? It may also have nothing to do with them electing a socialist party over ten years ago. I can state tons of examples of religion's ill effects on Africa but what does that get us? What it boils down to is that religion is a destablizing, regressive force in a continent under harsh economic stress and oppression.

I object to these Commie Ay-rabs running around in here. This ain't what we defeated Hitler for.

"We" ?

haha, kidding, of course...

Everybody should just lighten the fuck up and enjoy life for a while; It's a beautiful October day (or night, depending on which side of the globe you're on); throw a football around, make out with your girlfriend, boyfriend, go for a walk, anything but waste your limited life span arguing about the inarguable.

In the words of Tyler Durden:
This is your life, and it is ending one minute at a time.

Your framework of thought is shaped by Marx and a group of other persons who associate their own beliefs with that of Marx and believe themselves to be carrying on his legacy; it's an ideology. Looks like an ideology, quacks like an ideology... i'll be durned, it must be an ideology!

By far the vast majority of motivational forces, political or otherwise, within the Maghreb, are based in Islam. You would be more aware of this if you had, say, known about the Algerian elections in 1991 which tore the country to shreds, all because the secular semi-socialist ruling elite couldn't stand the Islamic party winning the elections.

And yes, I am very very afraid of 'or else.' Alas! I might no longer be able to post on a website dedicated to music I do not listen to! What an unspeakable terror that would be.

But of course, my prior years of agitation within these boards weren't even close to being considered grounds for anything of that sort, but post a few posts about the obvious sickness and degeneracy of secular society in a Helheim thread and out come the banners.

1) your argument is based in a lack of understanding concerning the incredible influence that religious folk of all sorts have had in the USA from the get-go; I would suggest that you read some comprehensive religious history books to fill this lack.

2) the lowest rates of atheism are in undeveloped countries, not in the USA. Various polls have found the rate of atheism in the USA to be anywhere from 4%-9%

as compared to the nearly nonexistent rates in, say, Senegal or Mauritania

What you're saying is completely contradictory to Marx's writings and it makes me just realize you can distort anything as being an evil of capitalism. When people are free from God, then they are free to put their faith in themselves whether that leads to surmounting or submitting to capitalism isn't based on atheism but on their class consciousness.

Religious societies are sick. The ones that have want use religion like a crutch and without that crutch maybe they could move forward to developing a class consciousness and overthrowing those who oppress them. Religion in Africa has created witchcraft hunts in the slums; it has done nothing to turn those slums into livable habitats.

Human beings thought they were kings of the universe even when God was still around in their minds; they were just kings with divine backing then.

O what mighty Delusion, do you, who are the powers of England live in! That while you pretend to throw down that Norman yoke, and Babylonish power, and have promised to make the groaning people of England a Free People; yet you still lift up that Norman yoke, and slavish Tyranny, and holds the People as much in bondage, as the Bastard Conquerour himself, and his Councel of War.

Take notice, That England is not a Free People, till the Poor that have no Land, have a free allowance to dig and labour the Commons, and so live as Comfortably as the Landlords that live in their Inclosures. For the People have not laid out their Monies, and shed their Bloud, that their Landlords, theNorman power, should still have its liberty and freedom to rule in Tyranny in his Lords, landlords, Judges, Justices, Bayliffs, and State Servants; but that the Oppressed might be set Free, Prison doors opened, and the Poor peoples hearts comforted by an universal Consent of making the Earth a Common Treasury, that they may live together as one House of Israel, united in brotherly love into one Spirit; and having a comfortable livelihood in the Community of one Earth their Mother.

If you look through the Earth, you shall see, That the landlords, Teachers and Rulers, are Oppressors, Murtherers, and Theeves in this manner; But it was not thus from the Beginning. And this is one Reason of our digging and labouring the Earth one with another; That we might work in righteousness, and lift up the Creation from bondage: For so long as we own Landlords in this Corrupt Settlement, we cannot work in righteousness; for we should still lift up the Curse, and tread down the Creation, dishonour the Spirit of universal Liberty, and hinder the work of Restauration.

We are discussing your theory that lack of want is the source of atheism, that somehow the necessary consequence of material fulfillment is a spiritual void.

Vietnam - 81%
Japan - 64%
USA - 3%
Italy - 6%

At the very least, the numbers suggest no causation or correlation with materialism.

My friend the witch doctor, he told me what to say. My friend the witch doctor, he told me what to do ..

I also do not care what Marx would have 'bought.' I am not a Marxist; I am a Muslim.

I love how DM's gone from Jew to Commie to Muslim. It'll be Scientology next. Either he's trolling, in which case or he's serious, in which case . Either way, wins all around.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html

Hmm...

I also do not care what Marx would have 'bought.' I am not a Marxist; I am a Muslim.

So has this been the case since, like, yesterday, when you replaced the Hammer and Sickles with star and crescents, or has it been brewing for longer? Do you actually believe in the truth of the Qu'ran or is it some solidarity with oppressed peoples thing?

Not delibrately trying to be an arse, but just asking...