(May 20, 2012 at 12:02 am)Phil Wrote:No one did commit genocides in the name of atheism. However, people did persecute those who would like to follow their religions in communis countries, with state atheism as their policy. State atheism does not equal secularism, friend.(May 19, 2012 at 11:42 pm)Aiza Wrote: State atheism has been a motivating cause of far more oppression in the last 100 years than Christianity has been.
If you need to cherry pick examples from centuries ago to talk about the "danger of religion" when religious people, on the whole, are more charitable, empathetic and mentally healthy than irreligious, then welp.
Besides not knowing the bible you are woefully ignorant of history. Tell me, what state atheism held crusades carrying an atheist cross? When did atheist priests on horseback hold pogroms? When did atheists commit genocide because they were following the commands of Atheismo? You are a sad example of a human.
Secularism denotes equal distance to all faiths.
State atheism is simply another form of state religion.
Both are equally irrelevant to today's society.
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