RE: The danger of religion. .
May 20, 2012 at 2:07 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2012 at 2:07 am by Aiza.)
(May 20, 2012 at 1:30 am)Aegrus Wrote: To support this, you should give examples. But I'll save you the time.
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Pick nearly any example off of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism
If I had to pick one, I think Albania, the "first atheist nation in the world" is interesting.
Your links on Pol Pot are grasping at straws and weird "no true atheist" fallacies. The Khmer Rogue persecuted Buddhists (really anyone expressing religious sentiments).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in..._Rouge_Era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge...ommunities
Jsyk....Orthodox Christianity and Catholic Christianity are two different things.
There are Russian Orthodox, and Russian Greek Catholics. Stalin was raised the former. But he was very openly atheist and persecuted the Orthodox Christians (who certainly didn't "flourish" though oppression sometimes wavered--between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to fewer than 500; though he allowed free practice during WWII as a way of intensifying patriotism).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ort...Stalin_era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-r...%931928%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-r...%931941%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_M...t_Atheists
Hitler's religion is under some dispute, as I understand it, though I don't think he was atheist.
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Chosen before the creation began
Chosen to bring for your bridal adorning
Woe to the serpent and rescue to man.
Sinners, we honor your sinless perfection;
Fallen and weak, for your pity we plead;
Grand us the shield of your sovereign protection,
Measure your aid by the depth of our need.
Bend from your throne at the voice of our crying,
Bend to this earth which your footsteps have trod;
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