Poverty and Theism

[Brian37]

China - philosophy is not Buddhist, my wife is from China, its philosophy is atheist, she was taught atheism. Buddhism is the biggest religion yes, but it is not the philosophy that built the dictatorship ... that is atheism ... sorry.

Russia - when communist (at the height of its oppression) was again atheist. Still recovering from that one.

Cuba - don't know much about it.

Germany - irrelevant - an occasional dictator appears - who for the record stated he hated Christianity. See secular sources on Hitler and religion.

Saudi Arabia and Iran - are Muslim not Christian. Their religion teaches violence, and oppression.

Western nations, particularly ones with protestant backgrounds are the freest in the world.

Now lets compare no religious states -North Korea, China, Soviet Union - wow do we see a secular revolution?

It really bothers you that I won't let you paint all atheists as baby eaters.

Blind worship of a party and or religion ARE EQUALLY AS BAD. 

Now again, I could give a shit less if you don't want to accept that, still your baggage. "atheist love dictators" is a bullshit lie and a slur.

And it still remains none of those countries are 100% religion free. ANY authoritarian state, theocracy or 1 party state doesn't oppress only religion, but ANY DISSENT, and at the same time will ACCEPT the support of loyalists, thus CATHOLIC CUBA.

Hitler convinced a MAJORITY CHRISTIAN NATION to put him in power. Stalin allowed AUTHORIZED Russian Orthodox Christian Churches when he saw Hitler's rise and needed the Christian support politically to fight Hitler. Neither Hitler or Stalin's personal views change the fact they used religious people for support of their power.

In the west Christians ARE NOT persecuted. I have sympathy for ANYONE of any label that lives where they are oppressed, but you are not oppressed. 

NOW FOR THE LAST TIME "ATHEIST does not =evil" 


As far as morality? You really want to go there, because we can and will point out some nasty stores in your old book if you want.