Interesting about Dostoyevsky. I believe that Stendhal must have read Tolstoy, taken a look at Dostoyevsky and then written The Red and the Black. That book is a little ordinary reminding me somewhat of The Idiot (by Dostoyevsky) until the end. Stendhal learned how to make that great ending. It's kind of a religious insight and makes the entirety worth reading.
I wanted to comment on the idea that no one has died for the cause of gravity. There was nearly a killing of a believer in gravity by religious people. For Galileo his notions about gravity might have been a contributing cause for his near death before recantation by religious people, yet if scientific atheism includes the theory of gravity as an element then we have the terrible history of the Soviet Union to provide millions of examples of people that have perished in the political effort to foist mandatory godless scientism upon the world.
Don't forget that the Kulakization program killed millions of Russians with more than a couple of cows or a small farm-that was as devastating as large scale corporate farming at getting rid of small farmers (fatally in the first case because of starvation and freezing in Sibir). Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago series recounted some of the trimming science-only advocates put on tens of millions of ordinary people. Other examples abound such as the Kymer Rouge and Pol Pot's government execution of intelligent souls and probably people of faith. One might say they were just ignorant communists however they were steeped in the mindless atheist theory of Karl Marx.
Better ways exist to secure social economic justice and offset unfair power acquired through exploitation of humans as owned capital or the advantage of machines. One example is progressive taxation and limit's on the size and number of corporations that any individual may own shares in.
I wanted to comment on the idea that no one has died for the cause of gravity. There was nearly a killing of a believer in gravity by religious people. For Galileo his notions about gravity might have been a contributing cause for his near death before recantation by religious people, yet if scientific atheism includes the theory of gravity as an element then we have the terrible history of the Soviet Union to provide millions of examples of people that have perished in the political effort to foist mandatory godless scientism upon the world.
Don't forget that the Kulakization program killed millions of Russians with more than a couple of cows or a small farm-that was as devastating as large scale corporate farming at getting rid of small farmers (fatally in the first case because of starvation and freezing in Sibir). Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago series recounted some of the trimming science-only advocates put on tens of millions of ordinary people. Other examples abound such as the Kymer Rouge and Pol Pot's government execution of intelligent souls and probably people of faith. One might say they were just ignorant communists however they were steeped in the mindless atheist theory of Karl Marx.
Better ways exist to secure social economic justice and offset unfair power acquired through exploitation of humans as owned capital or the advantage of machines. One example is progressive taxation and limit's on the size and number of corporations that any individual may own shares in.