Directory of Lost Causes (By Quentin S. Crisp)

This is materialism

Vivisectionists have always had excuses for their hobby, but I have long thought the picture below sums up their true attitude:



This is also the basic attitude of materialism, a worldview whose architects include Rene Descartes, who believed that the world was a machine created by God (he was a religious man, and here we see precisely how science is shaped by Western religion) and that animals have no souls. He was in this way giving a license to all the vivisectionists that were to come.

Look at the picture again. That is what materialism, as formulated by Western religion and science, does to all of us.

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