tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57218287624025066312023-11-15T19:33:33.239+01:00OMG!A digital performanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721828762402506631.post-5608068517897591702008-07-28T05:33:00.027+02:002008-07-30T16:54:52.994+02:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://terrorbyte-atheist.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><a>Is atheism the answer when god is the question?</a> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:18;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Reading Schiller’s </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><i>The Robbers</i></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > from a contemporary atheist perspective</span></span></b></p><p style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">The question of whether god exists and criticisms of the socio-political effects of religious institutions is perhaps as old as god(s) and the institutions themselves.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">Recent contemporary atheist texts by Richard Dawkins, Michel Onfray and Christopher Hitchens, present an aggressive case against the three dominant monotheistic religions and attempt to open a dialogue concerning the new secular society they believe we are already shifting toward.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">Friedrich Schiller’s epic Enlightenment-era play <i>The Robbers</i> continues to resonate to audiences at the dawn of the twenty-first century and is a powerful representation of the recurring arguments in atheist discourse, contrary to Schiller’s stated intentions for the play.<br /><o:p></o:p><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">Comparing Schiller’s <i>The Robbers</i> and these current atheist texts reveals some startling similarities that suggest atheism is the answer when god is in question.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"></o:p><a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://terrorbyte-atheist.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">To read the full thesis click here</span></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1