On 08/05/2006, at 2:10 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
No, it's not, and this belief [fundamentalist atheism]
may have killed more people
than all religions put together - you missed this same
discussion we had here about 6 months ago.
Wern't those people killed in the name of communism though? Atheism
!= Communism.
If you group together all religions, do a body count, and do
not exclude those killed by, say, the aztec sun worship, then
I can also put all atheisms together :-P
"all atheisms"?
Communism => Fundamentalist Atheism
No it's not. Communism acts as a substitute for religion, and is
therefore (or was in the major 20th century experiments anyway) both
jealous of organised religion, and a pseudoreligion itself. But
atheism isn't to blame. It's a huge strawman, the "atheism is bad and
wrong because some who professed atheism killed millions". It's as
stupid as "religion is wrong for those reasons". Religion may have
been and excuse, atheism may have (but I don't think it was), but
it's actually irrelevant in both cases to which is right.
It's like saying evolution is evil because of eugenics. It's just
intellectually lazy and stupid.
Charlie
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