Category: Berdyaev
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Berdyaev on the Moral Source of Atheism
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Berdyaev on the Moral Source of Atheism
There are respectable forms of atheism. The atheist needn't be a rebellious punk stuck in intellectual adolescence, swamped by sensuality, and given to self-idolatry. Nicholas Berdyaev, The Destiny of Man (Harper Torchbooks, 1960, tr. Natalie Duddington, p. 24): It is precisely the traditional theology that leads good men, inspired by moral motives, to atheism. The…
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Berdyaev: Communism as a Form of Idolatry
David Horowitz, Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, Touchstone, 1997, p. 55: After the Russian Revolution of 1905, the philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev analyzed communism as a form of idolatry in a way that proved to be prophetic. Berdyaev traced the origins of what he called the Marxist “heresy” back to the tower of Babel. In that…