šŸ•Šļø CatechismAI
Catechism Paragraph 2124
Part 3: LIFE IN CHRIST
Section 2: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Chapter 1: YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND
Article 1: THE FIRST COMMANDMENT

The name "atheism" covers many very different phenomena. One common form is the practical materialism which restricts its needs and aspirations to space and time. Atheistic humanism falsely considers man to be "an end to himself, and the sole maker, with supreme control, of his own history."[59] Another form of contemporary atheism looks for the liberation of man through economic and social liberation. "It holds that religion, of its very nature, thwarts such emancipation by raising man's hopes in a future life, thus both deceiving him and discouraging him from working for a better form of life on earth."[60]

šŸ“š Footnotes

[59] GS 20 # 2.
[60] GS 20 # 2.