(April 13, 2015 at 10:31 pm)Beccs Wrote: I will state that "killing in the name of atheism" and a communist regime killing as a means of control are two entirely different things.
And, if I'm playing the victim, I've learned to do it from the best: Christians online.
Of course, the interesting thing about that "logical fallacy" is the fact that no theist has ever been able to answer it.
Not entirely different. If communist regimes believe the best way to control the masses is to promote atheism than the two are at least tangentially related. By the same token, governments that believe the best way to control the masses is to promote Christianity (or Islam) have a vast historical record of killing in the name of their preferred god. Few kill in the name of theism itself since most theist tend to believe that only their god is the true god and so wouldn't want to promote other people's god.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
