@GodFree27 this is fascinating. you distinguish what [some] atheists profess to believe from their actions. IOW they act like religionists but profess to believe there is no god,
I hope you are as consistent in dealing with theists and do not hold their bad actions as proof against their theism.
but this is usually not done. atheists need their straw men, particularly as a grudge against religious hypocrisy is their main case against God
@Dxx36 Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Banned all religion and with the 2 mottos "To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss." 2.2 million people where exterminated.
@ThePatientMuslim Eugenics is considered a psuedoscience, a fake science, by the scientific community. I am not saying that there isn't an insignificant group of atheists who believe in eugenics, because there very well might be. But saying that all atheists support eugenics is appalling. That's like saying "one muslim view = suicide bombings" yeah, a tiny portion of muslims blew them selves up, that does not mean we should ban all the muslims.
Millions were killed by officially atheistic communist regimes, but these atrocities did not occur because of a lack of religion, they occurred because those regimes were to much like religion. They demanding unquestioning authority, blind obedience, and unchallenged loyalty. As Sam Harris often puts it, I know of no society which has suffered because it became to reasonable, or demanded to high a standard of evidence. This is a tired, unsound, invalid, often refuted argument against atheism.
Plato the allegory of the cave, some are trapped in there...
cpytube000 2 weeks ago
Unbelieveable...
PlutoPowered 1 month ago
@GodFree27 this is fascinating. you distinguish what [some] atheists profess to believe from their actions. IOW they act like religionists but profess to believe there is no god,
I hope you are as consistent in dealing with theists and do not hold their bad actions as proof against their theism.
but this is usually not done. atheists need their straw men, particularly as a grudge against religious hypocrisy is their main case against God
Strefanasha 1 month ago
@Dxx36 Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Banned all religion and with the 2 mottos "To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss." 2.2 million people where exterminated.
BrotherMichael1000 1 month ago
Nothing like a calm rational debate.
fryxcd7v 3 months ago
@Dxx36 stalin = 20 millions
KingDcome11 3 months ago
@ThePatientMuslim Eugenics is considered a psuedoscience, a fake science, by the scientific community. I am not saying that there isn't an insignificant group of atheists who believe in eugenics, because there very well might be. But saying that all atheists support eugenics is appalling. That's like saying "one muslim view = suicide bombings" yeah, a tiny portion of muslims blew them selves up, that does not mean we should ban all the muslims.
nemomoo 4 months ago
And who is running around doing all the killing now?
People can kill with a rock if they want to.
Do you really think that a gun can be used just to kill other people?
Crisshomes1 4 months ago
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What millions?
Dxx36 4 months ago
Millions were killed by officially atheistic communist regimes, but these atrocities did not occur because of a lack of religion, they occurred because those regimes were to much like religion. They demanding unquestioning authority, blind obedience, and unchallenged loyalty. As Sam Harris often puts it, I know of no society which has suffered because it became to reasonable, or demanded to high a standard of evidence. This is a tired, unsound, invalid, often refuted argument against atheism.
GodFree27 4 months ago