(September 22, 2015 at 5:34 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(September 22, 2015 at 5:31 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: The reason the connection between atheism and Stalin or Pol Pot is so obvious is because what they did is a natural result of what they believed.
Human life is of no real value if natural selection means that only the strong survive or that less desirable elements of our society - like the Jews, the Poles, the Blacks, the mentally handicapped, etc. (cf. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood) - should be eliminated.
And despite the attempts to find a Christian parallel from some dusty period of history, there simply aren't isn't anything like the murder committed under atheist communist regimes in the supposedly enlightened modern era.
So much for mankind evolving into a better and better version of itself.
I was going to comment on how the only 'belief' associated with atheism is 'i do not believe in god', but somehow, just somehow I doubt that point would come across to you.
I'd be delighted to hear an articulate explanation of why anyone would care two hoots about slaughtering a few million people if there was no compelling objective moral reason for them not to do so if they honestly believed it was in their own interest or that of the nation which they were trying to build.
Alpha males get to mate with all the females. Alpha dictators get to kill off all the males who disagree with him.