(December 3, 2018 at 4:38 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: I think that you should do a little research. You'll find that Solath Sar was super into buddhism, and that buddhism (as the state religion, no less) was the ground from which the khmer rouge originally sprang.
It was political expediency and concerns of legitimacy that eventually put the apparatus on blast, combined with drumming up the antipathies held by any poor people in which a particular social strata had accumulated immense wealth for itself relative to the rest of the proles. They never could really get rid of their own buddhist trappings though, because they worked so well to manipulate those same proles, as they always had in the preceding centuries.
I'll take your word for it. But remember one thing, if the Khmer Rouge were influenced by some aspects of Buddhism, that doesn't negate their atheism. Some philosophic aspects of Buddhism might appeal to atheists. Buddhism itself, as traditionally conceived and practiced, does not even consider belief or worship of God important or essential for being a Buddhist.
The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot were definitely atheists as I've already proven. You should also do more research yourself and confirm this fact from book of history and qualified historians and experts on the subject. There's no doubt the Khmer Rouge were Marxists and Maoists. Both of those individuals were ardent atheists too and despised religion.
Now my point is that state atheism has committed a lot more atrocities than any theocracy or religious group in the name of their religion. 3 million people died from the Cambodian genocide. That wasn't ancient history, it happened in the late 1970s. Before that, China's Cultural Revolution likewise killed millions in the 1960s. And Stalin had millions killed as part of his purges before that. All of these atrocities are rooted in state atheism.
Nothing in the history of Judaism, Christianity or Islam ever comes close. People on this thread are talking about 9/11, itself strongly suspected of being an inside job. But if we concede that it was done by terrorists motivated by Islam alone (and not any geopolitical grievances), then were talking about just under 3000 deaths.
So 3000 from 9/11 compared to the tens of millions of people that were killed by state atheism in the previous century. Now look at the fact that the atheist regime of China has interred about a 1 million Uighur Muslims in "re-education" camps. The atrocities being committed by the Chinese govt. has the benefit of being hidden due to the lack of a free media there, so it is not as sensationalized as relatively minor acts of terrorism committed largely in the Middle East.
That doesn't deny the existence of State terror, which is more often than not, atheist State terror.
