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Title: Away With All Gods! Possibility or Fantasy
START DATE: 11/6/2008
START TIME: 4:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: UCLA
Location Details:
Haines Hall, Room 118
UCLA Campus
Event Topic: Religion
Event Type: presentation
Contact Name: Clair Akai
Contact Email: sunsara_tour_la@yahoo.com
Contact Phone: 213.278.3653
DESCRIPTION:
download PDF (408.2 kibibytes) About SUNSARA TAYLOR | Sunsara Taylor, a writer for Revolution newspaper and a host on “Equal Time for Free Thought Radio” (WBAI-NY), has been on a national campus speaking tour for AWAY WITH ALL GODS! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World, the recent book by Bob Avakian. In her talk, Sunsara draws from the book and her experiences around the country challenging religion and the harm it does. Sunsara will argue that:

• Religion is harmful; aside from the reactionary content of the major religions, all forms of religious myth obstruct people’s ability to understand scientifically why things are the way they are and how they actually can be changed.

• There is no such thing as an unchanging and unchangeable human nature.

• We do not need gods, or belief in gods, to be good; there is a much more profound basis for morality in confronting reality as fully as possible and as emancipators of humanity.

From Away With All Gods:



“The notion of a god, or gods, was created by humanity, in its infancy, out of ignorance. This has been perpetuated by ruling classes, for thousands of years since then, to serve their interests in exploiting and dominating the majority of people and keeping them enslaved to ignorance and irrationality.

Bringing about a new, and far better, world and future for humanity means overthrowing such exploiting classes and breaking free of and leaving behind forever such enslaving ignorance and irrationality.”

From Symposium Respondent, Dr. S. Scott Bartchy, Director - Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA on Away With All Gods: Apart from the historical errors and serious misunderstandings of religious texts and cultural values that are claimed to be the truth in Bob Avakian's book, "Away with All Gods", its basic premise is on target: religion in its various forms has been used to justify some of the worst things that human beings have done to each other and to the earth. What is clear to me as a historian of religion is that there is "bad religion" and there is "good religion." Imagining that humans can evolve into a stage of "no religion" does seem to me to be a fantasy, and probably a dangerous one. The fatal flaw in the vision of this book is its author's apparent misjudgment regarding human nature. As I reflect on Avakian's vision, I have to conclude that it will take angels, not human beings, both to lead the called-for revolution and to govern us afterwards. As wonderful as that would be, I have yet to meet such a creature.

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