Kasz216 said:
oldschoolfool said:
Kasz216 said:
alekth said:
Atheist leaders have suppressed religion because religion already has its rules for people, and those weren't rules issued by those leaders.
However, atheists fighting for the sake of imposing atheism on others because that's what they believe is about as likely as gay hairdressers fighting to break into your home to fix that horrible haircut they saw you with.
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Religious wars weren't about imposing religion on people. They were about taking over regions that weren't of said religion.
Aka taking over countries whose beliefs and rulership was different. No different then the reasoning you gave for atheism.
Though, this is largely immatieral to the subject at hand.
People don't want to look at the actual studies and research and instead concoct ridiculious strawman points.
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Religious wars weren't about imposing religion on people. They were about taking over regions that weren't of said religion. -----so what's the difference?
People don't want to look at the actual studies and research and instead concoct ridiculious strawman points.----- of course they don't. People are going to believe what they believe. It's not like i'm doing a research paper on the whole subject. What's makes what you believe any more vaild then what I believe and vice versa?
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It's the same as the reasoning he gave for communists. Religious wars were about one thing. Politics. Not religion.
"Spreading" of religion was a byproduct. Though it wasn't even spreading... it was pushing those of a different group out.
Additionally, the research being missed, is that atheists (on average) are far less charitable. The interesting question is why... not trying to develop all kinds of pointless unrelated strawman arguements.
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There far less charitable because we don't have people telling us how to live. It the group mentality thing. If I want to give to charity,I'm going to give to charity when I want to. I'm not going to get pressured into it. I'm not going to get into the other reasons that I'm an atheist. Like I stated in a previous post,we can argue sematics all day long,but that's not going change anybody's mind. I'm just going to have to agree to disagree with you.
