(August 14, 2016 at 9:11 am)abaris Wrote:(August 14, 2016 at 8:36 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Most of human history has been unfair especially in theocracies so it is doing at least as good as those.
Sorry, but that's a shit argument and often heard before. Others did it too, so it's OK then. It's not doing good for the population at large and that's the only thing I take offence with. Presenting it as an example of a working society. In fact, China represents the worst of both worlds. Unchained capitalism and an oppressive political system.
The question is "is atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?" No one said it had to be a good one, just a sustainable one.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
