(May 9, 2012 at 6:03 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot...all atheists, all bigoted and violent. Religion can be a convenient cover for the evil, but it's not the cause.
At least you didn't put Hitler on the list, props for that. Ideologies can be the motivation for evil, ideologies like communism and religious extremism. Accepting dogma as legitimate is dangerous, because it means you accept something as true that can't be questioned.