(May 20, 2012 at 4:27 am)Aegrus Wrote: Stunning and rare, a religious person who actually supplies proof. The pages you linked have caused me to take a more moderate stance on this issue. It's easy to forget that every side is often equally capable of evil.Stunning and rare, an irreligious person who actually changes his stance on issues when proof is presented to him. Boy oh boy, backhanded compliments!
And 'equally capable' nothing, you need to go back hundreds of years before you see state Christianity doing half of that damage, in spite of Christians being much larger in numbers. What is more, I think you will find it very difficult to give a single example of an atheist (as we know the term today) being killed by religious simply for being atheist throughout all of known history, and I think it might just be impossible to name 5. It's not an 'equal' thing.
Re: Pol Pot. There are indeed, several branches of Buddhists. Your own unsourced "freethoughtpedia" link said that Pol Pot was a Theravada Buddhist though (as are some 95% of Cambodians), but he very much did target Theravada Buddhists, as was discussed in that link. He also admired jungle societies which were "free of Buddhism" and then there's the fact that he was also a follower of Marx, so I am not even sure why we are pretending like its a believable thing that Pol Pot was a Buddhist.
I agree that conservapedia is not a good source, but I could not find any links back to conservapedia in the wikipedia sources I gave you, so can you be more specific? Maybe I'm just tired and I am missing them somehow. Though I think its funny that you were linking to "freethoughtpedia" and "nobeliefs.com" just a second ago.
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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;
Stretch out your arms to us, living and dying,
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