(July 6, 2015 at 5:58 pm)ComradeMeow Wrote: You seriously are ignoring history. Communists (which I am one I should add) rejected religion and where strong atheists yet their misguided notions led them to kill others in the name of Socialist progression. They killed over a secular ideology. People kill each other for many reasons and religion is not exactly one of the major ones. Politics always has ways of creating wars more than religion
This is bullshit.
The vast majority of people in Communist Russia (which I assume you refer to) were actually still Orthodox Christians. And the problems that occurred within Communist regimes had precisely fuck all to do with atheism, and more to do with a fucked up version of a political ideology. Namely Leninism and Marxism. Last I checked atheism wasn't a political ideology.
Also, the very fact that much of this was allowed to happen was because of the monopoly and control that religion had in the first place. You're kidding yourself if you think religion isn't used as a political tool. Muslims could become communist party members in the USSR but Orthodox christians could not. If this were down to a purely 'secular' ideology, do you think this would be the case?