Saturday, August 11, 2018

The Unholy Family





A review of "A Heretic´s Guide to the Bible" by Chaz Bufe 

This is a run-of-the-mill “village atheist” pamphlet against the Bible (both testaments, but not the Apocrypha), reveling in all the usual absurd quotations about stoning, witch-burning, eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of God, etc. Not very interesting, unless you are a run-of-the-mill fundamentalist who actually want to stone people (village atheists, say). The only interesting thing about this production is that the author, Chaz Bufe, is an anarchist. At one point, he headed the Workers' Solidarity Alliance (WSA), a small group in sympathy with the anarcho-syndicalist international IWA. Of course, the anarchist critique of religion has never risen far above the “bourgeois”-liberal ditto which arguably spawned it. Perhaps somebody should lend Bufe his copy of Marx' “Theses on Feuerbach”?

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