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World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism

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World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism
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RE: World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism
September 24, 2021 at 5:42 pm
The world is already getting less and less religious every day, and yet it's not becoming more authoritarian or communist.



teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism
September 24, 2021 at 6:55 pm
Just for the record, I'm all for authoritarian socialism. It certainly would separate the weak from the strong.
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RE: World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism
September 24, 2021 at 7:03 pm
Most civilizations have been run by authoritarians throughout history, and the vast majority were devoted to one or more religions. What have we got to lose?
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
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RE: World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism
September 24, 2021 at 7:04 pm
(September 24, 2021 at 2:22 pm)Ahriman Wrote:
Quote:Atheism can’t take over. It isn’t a political plan. It isn’t a religion. It is a nothing.
Why do people pretend this is true.......atheism is definitely something. Atheists are all unified, in the sense that they all adhere to an atheistic world view. They certainly have enough influence to change the world.

If atheists had that much influence, churches would be taxed.

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RE: World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism
September 24, 2021 at 7:43 pm (This post was last modified: September 24, 2021 at 7:44 pm by The Architect Of Fate.)
(September 24, 2021 at 7:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(September 24, 2021 at 2:22 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Why do people pretend this is true.......atheism is definitely something. Atheists are all unified, in the sense that they all adhere to an atheistic world view. They certainly have enough influence to change the world.

If atheists had that much influence, churches would be taxed.

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And half the US population wouldn't believe two of every animal were loaded onto a magic boat.
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RE: World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism
September 24, 2021 at 9:30 pm
(September 24, 2021 at 6:55 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Just for the record, I'm all for authoritarian socialism. It certainly would separate the weak from the strong.

You were born in the wrong time and in the wrong country.  You would make a great Soviet, comrade.
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RE: World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism
September 24, 2021 at 9:46 pm
(September 24, 2021 at 9:30 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:
(September 24, 2021 at 6:55 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Just for the record, I'm all for authoritarian socialism. It certainly would separate the weak from the strong.

You were born in the wrong time and in the wrong country.  You would make a great Soviet, comrade.
I would've gladly gone to the gulag for what they made me believe.
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RE: World without religion would just be replaced with Authoritartian socialism
September 24, 2021 at 11:00 pm
(September 24, 2021 at 6:55 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Just for the record, I'm all for authoritarian socialism. It certainly would separate the weak from the strong.

What do you mean exactly?
Do you want to harm the weak?
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