not all of us eat foetuses

Fallen Seraph · 06-03-2008 10:05pm #1

Obituary of Baba Amte

I just read this obituary. I was most impressed by the chap in general, and it turns out that he was an atheist.

Extracts:

His own ashram, founded in 1951 on barren, rocky land full of snakes, was specifically for the handicapped and for lepers, who built and tilled it from scratch with half a dozen tools and their stumps of hands. It was called Anandwan, “grove of joy”; its philosophy was that lepers could be rehabilitated not by charity, nor by the begging life in railway stations and on streets, but by hard work and creativity, which would bring self-respect. Not by tears, but by sweat, Mr Amte wrote once, and noted how similar those were.

From 1990 he went to live by the Narmada, the most threatened river, building another ashram from scratch on stony, empty ground. Each day, until he grew too frail and the slippery banks too hazardous, he would walk to the river to watch it flow. Atheist though he was, he saw the Narmada as a goddess whose beauty should be decorated only with micro-dams on a human scale. And certainly he did not want his ashes to float there after his death. He insisted on burial, where his body—becoming what he had once been most disgusted and afraid of—might go on being useful and productive, inside the earth.

Makes me proud to be an atheist.

Zillah · 07-03-2008 1:41am

Fallen Seraph wrote: »

Makes me proud to be an atheist.

Why the hell would that make you proud? Did you show incredible courage and humility while helping those with an overwhelmingly debilitating disease?

B00MSTICK · 07-03-2008 1:47am

What does this thread have to do with eating foetuses?

AngryHippie · 07-03-2008 2:03am

trying to wind up noel again ?

I'm not sure any atheists/agnostics eat foetuses or if they did why their lack of religious belief would be as important as their lack of taste,sight,touch and smell, Cos they don't look/feel/sell that tasty, so I'm pretty sure they aren't going to be in the godless gourmet weekly.......well, not anytime soon

Dave! · 07-03-2008 9:49am

Come on OP, you know one example does not prove anything..... It's a well known fact that 99.9% of atheists are baby-eaters. Deal with it and move on.

Galvasean · 08-03-2008 2:37pm

DaveMcG wrote: »

Come on OP, you know one example does not prove anything..... It's a well known fact that 99.9% of atheists are baby-eaters. Deal with it and move on.

You should come round to my place... Im having an old friend for dinner..

not all of us eat foetuses

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