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...right wing that compared with him, Khomeini is Karl Marx." Halabi criticizes the I.R.P. for its political accommodation with the Tudeh Party, Iran's pro-Moscow Communists. (The arrangement is designed to counter opposition from left-wing Muslims.) And he calls for a program against "heresy and atheism." As for Khomeini's claim to the Supreme Theologian's Mandate, Halabi insists it is not binding. Khomeini may have great virtue and theological scholarship, he says, but "I have received instructions from the absent Imam [the Shi'ite messiah] himself...
...except that he lives austerely, sometimes spending days meditating alone in the desert. In Libya,. Gaddafi's eclectic revolutionary ideology, which he calls the "Third International Theory," is summed up in his three-volume Green Book. He describes his theory as "an alternative to capitalist materialism and Communist atheism." Gaddafi has transformed Libya into a Jamahiriya (State of the Masses), a system of "direct popular democracy" that operates without constitution, parliament or parties. In practice, it means that he retains almost total power-without accountability. The country's oil riches have allowed him to build a generous welfare...
Thus begins Kung's eight-hundred-page descent into philosophical, anti-Christian hell, down through the depths of skepticism, Deism, atheism, and finally "nihilism," which Kung defines as the denial of all reality. He burns to prove that it is "rational" to believe in an ultimate reality, and that this reality must be the Christian God. Kung lives in the shadow of Thomas Aquinas, who believed that science and religion did not clash because some things could be proved by science, while others simply had to be believed through faith. Kung revises Aquinas, redrawing the boundary between faith and reason...
...because I think what you say about letting political nature take its course means that the advocates of one position are supposed to remain silent while the advocates on the other side can be as vociferous as they want to be. Some of the exponents of atheism-and I do not challenge anyone's right to believe or not believe-but some of them do not realize that in effect they have created almost a religion of their own in that belief and are demanding things for their religion that they would deny others...
...word is not all negative, however. Atheism, readers learn, expresses the interests and aspirations of the working class and "serves the cause of spiritual liberation of the working masses from the burden of prejudices and delusions of the past...