Atheism and morality

[MrBubbles]

sapphi_snake said:

Kasz216 said:

sapphi_snake said:

pizzahut451 said:

oldschoolfool said:

ithis said:

mai said:

That's not about 'benefits', it's just inevitable. I'm pretty sure a world 'without' religion was depicted in some episode of South Park? It's in episode where Cartman is dying to buy a Wii and eventually goes to the future, I believe =)

Must watch that.

It's inevitable, but if a society grew out of it, I don't think there'll be any reason to invent it back.

I agree,I think relgion divides and hurt's people,more than it helps them. Think of all the wars between different religions. Everybody thinks there religions are the right one.

Think of this buddy

• Joseph Stalin, Atheist: 20 million plus dead
• Mao-Tse-Tung, Atheist: 40 million plus dead
• Adolf Hitler, Atheist: 10 million plus dead
• Pol Pot, Atheist: 2 million dead
• Kim-Il-Sung, Atheist: 5 million dead
• Fidel Castro, Atheist: 1 million dead

Those attrocities had nothing to do with those peoples' atheism, but rather with the political regime's they were promoting.

Yeah... you know.  That's the exact same arguement for the "wars between religions."

Except I religion was explicitely mentioned and ussed to rally the people to war. Did Stalin ever say "sacrifice your life in the name of atheism"? I'm sure the Pope did say something similar regarding Christianity when he was urging Christians to go and fight in the Crusades (a religiously motivated conflict). Have you ever heard of an atheist state invading another country to spread atheism?

so its fine for them to invade and spread atheism as by product as long as they didnt say it openly that its to destroy religions?