(July 6, 2012 at 9:34 am)Rhythm Wrote: You know what, I've just realized an easy way to get you on-board Clive, rehash all of your arguments excusing theism for this or that and just replace "theism" with "atheism", get it now?
...you are obviously not reading my posts.
I already pointed out that you can't blame Atheism (a class of beliefs) for the faults of Stalinism (an implementation of Atheism), just as you can't blame Theism (a class of beliefs) for the faults of Catholicism (an implementation of Theism).
Under this framework, you can say something like, "The set of beliefs that motivated burning witches at the stake implemented theism"--that is, theism was necessary for the belief that burning witches at the stake was good (in that circumstance).
You can also say something like, "The set of beliefs that motivated Anti-Religious Zealot to murder pastors implemented atheism".
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
