(August 22, 2021 at 5:41 am)Helios Wrote:Quote:The RCC has never supported those things. They endorse the teachings of Jesus. It is true, however, that some fallible humans have done some bad things, as they do in every organization.Yes they have
Quote:But if bad actions of individuals invalidate a belief for you, then you should be rejecting atheism completely out of hand since no religion can ever hold a candle to the atrocities committed by atheists during the last century. 100 million people were murdered.Atheism has never killed a single human being. A nonacceptance of belief deities can't make you kill someone.
(August 22, 2021 at 5:40 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Another fallacy.Nor can Communism even be blamed
Communism does not equate to atheism.
Though it often does in Christian rhetoric and propaganda.
Yes, the RCC, as an organisation, has supported those things.
Nope.
What developed in all of those countries was a cult of personality around Mao, Stalin, and others.
Hell, as Hitchens said, North Korea has its own equivalent to the holy trinity.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"