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S.T.A.G.E. said:
o_O.Q said:


tell that to the people who lived under atheistic regimes in the past

its amazing how people believe that the faults of humans which cause them to harm other humans would just evaporate of we discarded religion

atheists are no more altruistic than theists maybe even less so since a defeatest mindset like "people are stupid" seems to be something i see mostly from atheists

Explain these athiestic regimes. Athiesms is actually in a minority of thought in the world, but it is growing because people are starting to think. Funny enough its in the countries with higher education levels.

 

well since it'll offend some people i won't mention hitler i'll instead mention the leaders of communist russian for example

 

"Athiesms is actually in a minority of thought in the world, but it is growing because people are starting to think."

yes people are accepting paradigms of thought that are critical of religion that does not mean though that they in the wider sense are as critical as they should be

there are several things going on in the world today that if people were as you said really starting to think should cause profound reactions

 

for example i made this thread the other day : http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=203299&page=1#2

 

and so far i've had one reply... so while evidence is coming forth that its very likely that the us is taking the money of its tax payers to fund conflicts in other regions we have atheists instead taking their time to call religious people stupid

 

to a thinking person which would be the more pressing issue?

 

another similar issue is the bs war on drugs... millions are spent each year to bring an end to illicit drug use

and the premise itself is ridiculous - we don't ban alcohol so it can't be about stopping people from harming themselves

secondly if anything sources for drugs are more widespread than they ever have been before

there is also loads of evidence here that this whole system was set up and manipulated in the first place to rob the tax payers of their money

 

so no ultimately i don't think people are really starting to think at all 

 

something else i have to mention is the notion that attitudes like homphobia and misogyny are caused by religion and so they will just vanish when religion is destroyed and that's nonsense

these attitudes are brought about to some degree by religion i won't deny that but they also come about because of individual interaction... for example a man being slighted in some way by a woman may become a misogynist 

 

fear of people that are different to you is inate to human beings and is not going to stop when religion is destroyed

 

"Funny enough its in the countries with higher education levels."

"education"(tertiary) at the lower levels does not engender critical thinking

it is mostly about the ability to retain and recite the presently accepted beliefs of the era... beliefs that after a few decades will probably change drastically

 

for the most part what happens is that people are critical of some ideas while refusing to question others because they are fundamental to their world view