Progressive hero Ta-Nehisi Coates (an atheist) is conflicted about whether to bring on the guillotines.  From a recent interview with Vox: When he tries to describe the events that would erase America’s wealth gap, that would see the end of white supremacy, his thoughts flicker to the French Revolution, to the executions and the terror. ‘It’s very easy for me to see myself being contemporary with processes that might make for an equal world, more equality, and maybe the complete abolition of race as a construct, and being horrified by the process, maybe even attacking the process. I think these things don’t tend to happen peacefully.’ Materialist ideas have entailments, including (1) God does not exist; (2) good and evil … Continue reading Violence is Inherent in Atheist Politics