Would you like if all people became atheists?

[Polaris]

5. The opposite.

[Cato]

Of course. One less unnecessary consideration.

[iameatingjam]

I would prefer everybody to be atheist, but that doesn't really make any sense.

[Minimalist]

religion is necessary for a select few who are on the border of becoming a real danger to society,

The problem there is that those fuckers are the biggest danger to society.

[Polaris]

Yeah. Let's just forget the last 100 years.

[Cato]

Yeah. Let's just forget the last 100 years.

Is this your way of warning us that your getting to hatch another 'Stalin was an atheist' turd?

[Polaris]

Yeah. Let's just forget the last 100 years.

Is this your way of warning us that your getting to hatch another 'Stalin was an atheist' turd?

The Earth also revolves around the sun...

And it was not just one person behind those issues....most of the deaths were actually attributed to other non-religious leaders.

[Cato]

Is this your way of warning us that your getting to hatch another 'Stalin was an atheist' turd?

The Earth also revolves around the sun...

And it was not just one person behind those issues....most of the deaths were actually attributed to other non-religious leaders.

I get it now. You're just randomly spitting out facts without drawing a conclusion. Got it.

[TaraJo]

I don't worry too terribly much what other people believe. I just have two requirements I want people to meet with their beliefs (or lack thereof).

1) Have an intelligent, well thought out reason for your beliefs

2) Don't force your beliefs onto other people, especially against their will

So, as of now, I'd rather someone be a Christian who can give intelligent reasons for being a Christian than an atheist who is an atheist simply because that's what their parents taught them to be. Along that same vein, I'd rather someone be a Christian who keeps it to theselves than an atheist who is obnoxious and forces atheisim down peoples' throats whether they like it or not.

That being said, I don't see that happenig too often. I hear stories from Faux News and other right wing sources of atheism being forced on people, but I can never fact check them (or when I do, there's some huge details they left out). And I've always found that if you give it real intelligent thought, you usually wind up identifying somewhere in the atheist/agnostic/deist realm. So it's kinda a wash.

[Polaris]

The Earth also revolves around the sun...

And it was not just one person behind those issues....most of the deaths were actually attributed to other non-religious leaders.

I get it now. You're just randomly spitting out facts without drawing a conclusion. Got it.

You want the conclusion, American?

Societies that have shunned religion for secular control have been the most destructive and most dangerous to humanity.

It's a real simple reason for that, but I guess American atheists (with some British ones as well...apple does not fall far from the tree) don't like admitting it....

It's a lot simpler to control with religion, so many of the dictatorial societies in the 20th century who wished to supplant religion for total control resorted to violence to gain some of the same control. Even using an extremely high number for deaths attributed to religion, these societies helped to foster an atmosphere of hate that killed five to ten times the amount of people killed due to religion over the course of 10 thousand years only in the course of half a century.