RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism?
January 28, 2015 at 5:08 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2015 at 5:08 pm by Dystopia.)
(January 28, 2015 at 4:53 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(January 28, 2015 at 4:50 pm)Blackout Wrote: In this case it's to hold non belief, so yeah, that's atheism, as far as I know (no belief in gods)...
No, that's not right. In order to "be in the name of atheism", they'd have to act specifically because they hold no belief in god (which is absurd). If they are fighting because they do not have the right to disbelieve in god, that's an entirely different thing.
It's freedom of religion, but indirectly they are fighting to be atheists.
I think quantifying why someone would act because of non-belief is complicated, unless these atheists made a new definition of atheism that involves rejecting religion and violently erasing it.
Still, if someone invokes that because of non-belief in gods he/she did this or that, that's pretty much atheism... Even if we don't agree because we are atheists and take "pride" into being one, it's not impossible for someone to commit crimes and blame lack of belief in gods as the cause, hypothetically it's not impossible, I just find it unlikely
If I killed a bunch of people and claimed it was because I didn't believe in god and therefore there's no punishment in hell, I'm not making a fair use of atheism, but it's still not refutable since I'm entitled to pick any reason at all.
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