I Discovered Philosophy In My

I Persist In Preferring Philosophers To Rabbis Priests Imams Ayatollahs And Mullahs. Rather Than Trust Their Theological Hocus-pocus I Prefer To Draw On Alternatives To The Dominant Philosophical Historiography: The Laughers Materialists Radicals Cynics Hedonists Atheists Sensualists Voluptuaries. They Know That There Is Only One World And That Promotion Of An Afterlife Deprives Us Of The Enjoyment And Benefit Of The Only One There Is. A Genuinely Deadly Sin.

God Is A Fiction Invented By People So They Do Not Have To Face The Reality Of Their Condition.

Many Militants Of The Secular Cause Look Astonishingly Like Clergy. Worse: Like Caricatures Of Clergy.

Socialists Find Me Too Far Left; Trotskyites Not Far Enough; Ecologists Say I Am Too Happy Eating Foie Gras, Defending Nuclear Energy And Gm Plants; Feminists Find I Am Not Enough Of A Woman; Anarchists A Petit-bourgeois Who Has Sold Out Because I Believe In Universal Suffrage.

Camus Believed In Dialogue And Diplomacy, And Enlisted His Work As A Philosopher To The Need To Find Nonviolent Solutions, Whereas Sartre Called For Violent Conflicts And Justified Terror.