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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:19 pm
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Just Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
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stalin was a greek orthodox priest student ..
the orthodox church fared well under his regime..there where just 2500 of them when stalin came into power..more as 25,000 when he died..
mao, a taoist , never washed becouse of buddist symbolism ...washing is what u do in buddism to wash off all ur mistakes and sins ..
mao of course was faultless........so never washed !!
pol pot (Saloth Sar).... was raised a Buddhist and Catholic.
Dr. Ian Harris, a Reader in Religious Studies at the University College of St. Martin, relates: "In one of his early writings Pol Pot wrote approvingly that the 'democratic regime will bring back the Buddhist moralism because our great leader Buddha was the first to have taught [democracy].'"
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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Whatever they believed in or followed to it wasn't God they just had their own agenda. If you look through history evil doesn't tend to flourish, at least not in the long term it has a tendency to self destruct.
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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:39 pm
(October 19, 2013 at 1:35 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Whatever they believed in or followed to it wasn't God they just had their own agenda. If you look through history evil doesn't tend to flourish, at least not in the long term it has a tendency to self destruct.
religion is a breeding ground for evil psychopaths..
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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Its irrelevant if they were atheists or not. The point is: they didn't justify their actions with atheism because that would be impossible. You can't use a disbelief as justification for anything. Religion on the other hand, all you need to say is: 'God wants this' and people will be willing to do what you say.
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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:45 pm
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(October 19, 2013 at 12:50 pm)Faith No More Wrote: (October 19, 2013 at 12:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Which leads me to why I think atheism is ultimately nihilist. When you say your life has meaning, you are assigning qualitative significance to what you consider a physical process. However that kind of qualitative assignment is precluded by the physical monism and ontological naturalism.
What makes you think the part I put in bold is true? For the reasons I listed in the post above.
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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:50 pm
(October 19, 2013 at 12:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: (October 19, 2013 at 6:59 am)Brian37 Wrote: Hitler was NOT an atheist. Just Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
stalin was a greek orthodox priest student ..
the orthodox church fared well under his regime..there where just 2500 of them when stalin came into power..more as 25,000 when he died..
mao, a taoist , never washed becouse of buddist symbolism ...washing is what u do in buddism to wash off all ur mistakes and sins ..
mao of course was faultless........so never washed !!
pol pot (Saloth Sar).... was raised a Buddhist and Catholic.
Dr. Ian Harris, a Reader in Religious Studies at the University College of St. Martin, relates: "In one of his early writings Pol Pot wrote approvingly that the 'democratic regime will bring back the Buddhist moralism because our great leader Buddha was the first to have taught [democracy].'"
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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:52 pm
(October 19, 2013 at 1:50 pm)daandaan Wrote: (October 19, 2013 at 12:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Just Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. stalin was a greek orthodox priest student .... mao, a taoist , never washed becouse of buddist symbolism pol pot (Saloth Sar).... was raised a Buddhist and Catholic. It does not matter how they were raised. Their regimes were explicitly atheistic.
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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:56 pm
(October 19, 2013 at 1:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: It does not matter how they were raised. Their regimes were explicitly atheistic.
And did those regimes commit their atrocities under the banner of disbelief in a god, or were there other concerns that drove them? 
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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 1:58 pm
(October 19, 2013 at 1:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: It does not matter how they were raised. Their regimes were explicitly atheistic.
Which would be relevant if there was one atheistic ideology that unites us all.
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RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 19, 2013 at 2:00 pm
(October 19, 2013 at 1:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: (October 19, 2013 at 1:50 pm)daandaan Wrote: stalin was a greek orthodox priest student .... mao, a taoist , never washed becouse of buddist symbolism pol pot (Saloth Sar).... was raised a Buddhist and Catholic. It does not matter how they were raised. Their regimes were explicitly atheistic.
nope , they where inspired by religion..
in every religion is stated that u have to kill everybody thats not with ``you and ur god``
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