Kasz216 said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
SlorgNet said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
But does anybody know who's been slaughtering the masses "in the name of atheism?" I can only think of one kingdom in the 20th century, but I forget its name. I think it was some communist dude in eastern Europe, but I could be wrong. |
And the wonderful democratic free country of Great Britain starved at least 2 million Bengalis to death in the artificial famine of 1943, and wonderful free democratic America killed 3 million people in Indochina for... what, I'm not sure, exactly.
Every single great power which ever existed has awful amounts of blood on its hands. That's the sad truth, and the sooner human beings everywhere realize that we are our own worst enemies, the sooner we get to a world where war is obsolete.
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I agree with everything you just said, but don't see how it relates to what I said. I know free democracies murder by the millions. But free democracies have freedom of religion so they're not slaughtering in the name of atheism. They're usually slaughtering "in the name of democracy" or something else stupid, like "in the name of freedom," or just for land or oil or revenge, or showing off weapons in theater wars.
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That's like asking who's killing in the name of gayness.
Athesim is too small a minority to gain any useful majority to kill over.
If some Atheist countries existed.... i'd imagine you'd see some slaughtering in the name of atheism.
I've seen some REALLY extreme atheists in my time. People who think religion should be outlawed and the like.
Amusingly they've all been ex catholics.
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Last I checked, major communist movements - such as Stalin's USSR, and Mao's China were both pro-atheist. I know in Stalin's writings (such as Dialectical and Historical Materialism) would be a good start to understand Stalin's humanist viewpoint.
Feel free to check religion under communist nations - although it wasn't fully repressed, the fact was/is that major communist nations held to atheistic/humanistic philosophies. Although they didn't 'kill in the name of atheism', it's still a point that China and the USSR were 'officially' atheist during their most brutal periods.
