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I do not believe progress is inevitable. That there is some ever-perfectible future we are all heading inexorably towards. Instead, “life is just one damned thing after another.” There is no inevitability about anything.

The question of how we should respond to ethno-fascism is no different to the question of how an agnostic should respond to questions of ethics.

As Hillel the Elder posited, what the devout can learn from the moral behaviour of an agnostic is that if the only reason you behave ethically is out of fear of the retribution of a deity, then you’re probably not a very moral person.