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RE: Why Atheism? Very quick overview.
lol You are prolly right, "RULEZ"... if you take the top 20 genocides, likely over 10 of them are "religious".
BUT on the other hand, Organized Atheism (re: Soviet Union) killed more than Hitler, by a fairly large margin. Hitler was also an Occultist, which is somewhat of an "Anti-Religion", and I personally would not chalk that up to "Religious Crusades". But that is somewhat debatable. :-)
Don't get me wrong, I have as much of a "bone to pick" with "religion" as you and Anj do, maybe even more so. It is true that more atrocities have been perpetrated in the "Name of God" than any other. STILL! And it needs to STOP. Period!
just one point, it was not "Atheism" which led to a bloody rule by the Soviets. Same thing holds true for Chairman Mao's killing of millions of Chinese. Communists killed people for political reasons primarily, not on religious grounds. "Atheism" was but one principle of the communists.
Ya know, I was going to disagree, but I think you are right. Atheism was in those 2 cases you cite, actually just a tool by the occultists that perpetrated these atrocities.
The writings of Ayn Rand (brought up in Soviet Russia, I believe) cite NATURAL LAW and other universal truths. Communist Style Atheism is totally counter to Natural Law and Human Rights.
Good points U make Agent BC ;)
exactly, what we now associate with Atheism (for that matter ancient Atheist philosophies from India, China, Greece) is not how Communism sees Atheism.