(April 3, 2015 at 6:10 am)abaris Wrote:(April 2, 2015 at 10:49 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Don't forget to include atheists in that list, oh wait, they have the biggest body count of all.
http://www.scottmanning.com/content/comm...ody-count/
Asinine as always. Communist dictators didn't kill in the name of atheism but in the name of their ideology which wasn't atheism but a perverted form of Marxism. You play the communist card and I raise you one Hitler, one Franco, one Mussolini, one Pavellic, one Pinochet and countless other dictators, who were christians and had in their largest parts a very good standing with religious powers and organisations.
Would it be unfair to say, they killed in the name of christianity? Of course, but if you want to play it black and white with your ignorance of history, so be it.
State atheism IS an ideology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism_and_religion
Quote:In the Marxist–Leninist interpretation of Marxist theory, developed primarily by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, religion is seen as retarding human development, and socialist states that follow a Marxist–Leninist variant are inherently atheistic. Due to this, a number of Marxist–Leninist governments in the twentieth century, such as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, implemented rules introducing state atheism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism
Quote:State atheism is the official promotion of atheism by a government.
Here's the point, Christian "ideology" requires that you express love toward your fellow man. Any examples of supposed Christians not living up to that standard means they are not Christians, or at best hypocrites, but you guys seem to think that is a "no true scotsman".
If an apple tree produces oranges, is it still an apple tree? No it's an orange tree ("by their fruit ye shall know them"), simply because a true apple tree produces apples... Likewise a christian wouldn't bring injury to his fellow man, doing so would be AGAINST Christian principles.
Where has Christ ordered his followers to destroy temples of different religions?
