RE: Serious Problems with Atheism
January 18, 2017 at 5:41 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2017 at 5:44 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 18, 2017 at 5:24 pm)Pulse Wrote: To say Stalin was a Christian is really dishonest, even Wikipedia describes his religion as " Atheism, formerly Georgian Orthodox", Ceauşescu launched a persecution of religion in Romania to implement the doctrine of Marxist–Leninist atheism, while Pol Pot banned religious practices in Cambodia. I am perturbed you deny history so readily.
Again this information is all from Wikipedia.
The fact remains that they didn't kill in the name of atheism, generally -- though Stalin did expropriate much OC property, and pursued a pogrom against the Anabaptists.
How many Christians have killed in the name of Christianity? The Crusades, the 30 Years' War, the witch hunts that ravaged 17th-century Europe, the Native American genocide ... and that's just Christian religious violence. There's also the murderous violence of the "pagan" NaZis -- most of whom were indeed Christian -- which was instigated by an anti-Semitism originally kicked off by -- you guessed it! -- Christians.
Note that when theists actually got their hands on industrialized death, their death toll compared to Mao and Stalin. If you're going to argue from consequences regarding atheism, you have to accept it for theism as well.
Personally, I'd just as soon you stick to presenting evidence, but I'm not going to hold my breath.