(December 17, 2018 at 7:45 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:(December 17, 2018 at 5:58 am)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: Atheism is a stance, not a reason for action. Religion gives people a reason to act, and sometimes their actions are harmful to others.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism
There is no dogma or tenets with atheism therefore you can't act in a certain way based on being an atheist.
Religion on the other hand...….
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin%2...ersonality
The cult of personality also adopted the Christian traditions of procession and devotion to icons through the use of Stalinist parades and effigies. By reapplying various aspects of religion to the cult of personality, the press hoped to shift devotion away from the church and towards Stalin.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
