(July 6, 2012 at 7:04 am)Ace Otana Wrote: Damn it, here I go again....
Stalin, pol pot were corrupt communist dictators acting from their political stance. You can't really kill in the name of atheism. Simply because atheism means without theism. Essentially it means you're killing for without theism. Also those dictators killed many atheists too so it can't really be said they killed for atheism.
You can however kill for a religion. People have committed mass murder in the name of a religion and a god. Catholics during the second world war murdered around 400 to 600 thousand people in the name of god.
A common mis-understanding.
*pats on back*
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You can kill for atheism. It's a worldview, an ideology--or at least there are belief systems that implement it, in the same way that theism is an ideology that various belief systems implement.
Under Communism, religion was a threat to the dominance of the state. So they eliminated it. If killing people to stamp out religion isn't atheist...well, I don't know what is.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
