andyx1205 wrote:What I respect about atheist revolutionaries such as Che or Bhagat Singh (my parents just won't accept that he wasn't Sikh, lol) is that they are willing to sacrifice their their life for the greater good while acknowledging there is no afterlife. This is much braver than believing you are going to go to Heaven and get rewarded with gifts from Allah, because you really aren't sacrificing your life, you just want to go to the next, better life. Btw you've probably read Bhagat Singh's Why I Am an Atheist but it's interesting.

Btw you might be surprised that Noam Chomsky once said that the word "conservative" has lost its meaning today, and that he would call himself one of the only conservatives around. It makes sense, since people who adhere to double standards are very liberal with their values. In that sense there's barely any conservative politicians around, one day they say this, the other day they say that.