(January 3, 2015 at 4:30 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(January 2, 2015 at 6:30 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Consider for a second that often the most secular, least religious societies also tend to be some of the most prosperous financially and socially, and also the happiest.
You can't be serious.
You of all people should realize communism introduced "state atheism" FIDEL....
Anyone should be able to read the qualifier 'often' and realize that a few counter-examples won't be sufficient to negate the point. Professional starting pitchers often rest three or four days after pitching a game before pitching another. Naming ten starting pitchers that don't do this would not negate the point, because the claim was not that ALL starting pitchers do this. I suppose you've committed a straw man fallacy, characterizing Fidel's claim as if it allowed of no exeptions when it explicitly did allow for them.
(January 3, 2015 at 4:30 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Go study Stalinist Russian and see how much of a "utopia" it was.
You'll find few communists on this site, and even fewer people who think state-imposed atheism is a good idea. For the most part, we are secularists who think the best course for both government and religion is for the government to be as neutral toward religion and unentangled with it as possible.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.