Atheism

2021-10-05

To my comrades,

I argue we should adopt a position of more explicit atheism under
ASF-Perth.

This atheism should not be of the Imperialist kind. By this I mean the weaponised 'anti-theism' of, say, Dawkins, Hitchens, or Harris.

Anglo-american, purely capitalist atheism is just neoconservatism, the kind we see in the mouths of the SBS or the ABC—speaking patronisingly of the women 'left behind' in Afghanistan.

A better way of talking about the explicitly anarchist atheism I think we should adopt within ASF-Perth is to describe what I imagine atheism is not.

Atheism is a rejection of the supernatural. In our dealings, ASF-Perth should not merely refuse membership to leaders of religious organisations—although this is sufficient for the purposes of our Constitution—but we should resist adopting the methods of spiritual or religious practices.

By this I mean we should be firm materialists. We should draw political judgements according to natural descriptions and observations alone. This type of behaviour was not alien to Bakunin, Goldman, and Kropotkin. These firm scientists of anarchism did not let the dominion of spiritualist or religious thought cloud their judgement about what they reckoned reality to be.

In ASF-Perth should be firm in its rejection of Religion and Spiritualism—what really amounts to supernaturalist Idealism. I am very serious about this.

I am not worried about what others might say about my attitude. More and more young people are turning to anarchism because of their irreligiousness. I only need to draw your attention to the numbers tabulated by the ABS. Religion is on the out in Perth.

To health and anarchy,

Vidak.