(September 22, 2015 at 11:57 am)Esquilax Wrote:(September 22, 2015 at 11:53 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Secondly, you've still not demonstrated that their murders were done in the name of atheism. Simply saying that churches were outright suppressed and that priests were killed does not mean it was done because of atheism; if a priest spoke out against the Leninist powers-that-be, they were killed to shut them up. This was true for non-priests, as well. If an atheist spoke out against the Leninists, they too would be killed. But not because of their atheism.
"B-b-but! No True Atheist fallacy!"
The church was a rival power in the land, that is why they were removed not for the beliefs, for the influence.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
