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Originally Posted by llama64
By default it's not. It becomes so when atheists get organized. Sort of like the difference between Liberals and liberals.
Would you advocate pushing an atheist world view upon the population? Or would you rather foster an environment in which an individual is given the opportunity to make up their own mind?
My understanding of the psychology of atheism leads me to suspect the later.
It would be a better place. Although humanism can be practised by Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindu's, and atheists equally. Religious beliefs don't have to factor into the equation at all. And in their absence, tyrants would just find another vector with which to perpetrate their inhumanity.
I do wonder though, without a religious system, what social mechanism will take up the charge of providing the moral standard for society.
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If an Atheist viewpoint starts with science then yes. Other than that there is nothing specific about Atheism that would create a singular viewpoint.