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The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
ErGingerbreadMandude Offline
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The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 24, 2016 at 10:04 pm (This post was last modified: May 24, 2016 at 10:09 pm by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
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I couldn't help but post the infamous Christian "argument" for why they are idiots.
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RE: The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 24, 2016 at 11:06 pm
Hitchens laid waste to this ignorant smarmy argument years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRhczvtmbWE
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RE: The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 24, 2016 at 11:09 pm (This post was last modified: May 24, 2016 at 11:17 pm by Silver.)
So what if Stalin was an atheist?

Christians under the name of Christianity have done much worse.

Christians only rely upon one individual in the history of humanity to make a claim that atheism is so evil while Christianity still has to deal with the thousands of years of history where it purposefully caused harm and to this day continues to cause harm all because of what it believes should be universally accepted.
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RE: The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 25, 2016 at 12:56 am
(May 24, 2016 at 11:06 pm)Cato Wrote: Hitchens laid waste to this ignorant smarmy argument years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRhczvtmbWE

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ma...ng-webchat

apparently in russia you can go to jail for stating the obvious you know there is no god.
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RE: The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 25, 2016 at 1:23 am
Ah yes. The "you're as bad as me" argument.

Stalin was right handed too. Ban right handed people. Was he? I don't know. I just made it up. Who cares about facts or logic.

Maybe people would stop using these dumb arguments if we made them preface any such statement with:

"My god stood by and did nothing while..."
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RE: The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 25, 2016 at 4:49 am (This post was last modified: May 25, 2016 at 4:50 am by Fake Messiah.)
The thing is evil people do evil things because they're evil. Good people do evil things because their religion tells them to do it.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 25, 2016 at 11:09 am
(May 25, 2016 at 1:23 am)robvalue Wrote: Ah yes. The "you're as bad as me" argument.

Stalin was right handed too. Ban right handed people. Was he? I don't know. I just made it up. Who cares about facts or logic.

Maybe people would stop using these dumb arguments if we made them preface any such statement with:

"My god stood by and did nothing while..."

But -- but -- but -- free will!

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RE: The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 25, 2016 at 11:15 am
Wait, that statement is an actual argument? I thought it was just them whining as usual
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RE: The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 25, 2016 at 11:23 am (This post was last modified: May 25, 2016 at 11:27 am by MJ the Skeptical.)
I think the point these believers miss is that there's nothing ideologically motivating about Atheism that would make you kill someone. Stalin wasn't in his home one day and said you know what I'm going to kill and implement genocide based on my Atheism. Same goes for Pol Pot or Mao Zedong. There has to be a dogma or ideology behind it. I mean, how can you get from the negative position of the I don't believe you stance of Atheism, to using it as a motivating factor to genocide people, it doesn't correlate, at all, it's a retarded argument from pseudo-intellectuals.
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RE: The "Stalin Was an Atheist" argument
May 25, 2016 at 11:26 am
(May 25, 2016 at 11:23 am)MJ the Skeptical Wrote: I think the point these believers miss is that there's nothing ideologically motivating about Atheism that would make you kill someone. Stalin wasn't in his home one day and said you know what I'm going to kill and implement genocide based on my Atheism. Same goes for Pol Pot or Mao Zedong. There has to be a dogma or ideology behind it. I mean, how can you get from the negative position of the I don't believe you stance of Atheism, to using it as a motivating factor to genocide people, it doesn't correlate, at all, it's a retarded argument from pseudo-intellectuals.

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