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Fashions of Atheism (1968)
Volume 33. Argo, 1996.
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…Of living processes, you can only speak by participation. And of dead things, you can speak by reading books. It’s very different.
…The modern fashions in the last hundred years have all consisted in this one-and-the-same attempt to say that man is outside that which he learns, which he knows, which he judges, which he describes, which he discovers; and thereby saying that man could step outside his own life, and speak of life as though it wasn’t his, it wasn’t he involved.
Living processes can only be known or understood by those who practice, who are alive, who are involved, who are breathing with these processes, because we only know of their existence, thanks to our quality of breathing, acting, reacting, responding. There is no other way.
March 1968
This issue is examined in the larger context of religion in general, rather than focusing specifically on atheism. A regenerating religion, Rosenstock-Huessy asserts, is the value that addresses living social processes; atheism by contrast is a religion that addresses events objectively. Atheism is anti-human, because one cannot understand human experience without participating inside its processes. One 1-hour lecture.
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