RE: Christianity's Valuable Contributions to Humanity: An Examination of Militant Atheism
June 19, 2023 at 3:24 pm
(June 19, 2023 at 2:06 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Communist ideology could not coexist with the continued influence of religion even as an independent institutional entity,
That is just it: Communism is an ideology and communists persecute people for disrespecting their ideology, just like Christians persecute people for disrespecting their ideology. Communism is a state religion.
Needless to say that atheism is not an ideology, nor is anyone persecuted for atheism.
So your equating atheism with communism is nothing but a Strawman.
Equating atheism with communism is also a moral panic which is one of the favorite tactics Christians use. So over the past decades Christians have proclaimed communism to be a large variety of things: abolishing racial segeregation was also deemed as communism, as was global warming, medicare, gun control, masking against covid, and so on.
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"
