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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Don't take that as me saying "atheism is evil", but it is an "ism", and like most "isms", when people believe in them strongly enough, they can be fuel for hatred just like religion. We have roughly 8000 years of religiously inspired history to draw from when finding negative examples of religion's influence, but only a short period to draw from when looking for examples of atheist societies. It's not much of a sample size at all, but from what there has been so far, I can't say that I think non-religous societies will be more tame. In fact, a whole generation of Albanians grew up without religion, and the early returns don't look good.
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No I don't take "atheism is evil" from what you say at all.
It's jut that I don't get why the "Hitler/Mao/Stalin were atheists" thing is always trotted out. Let's say it is true for a second. Well, so what?
The suggestion seems to be that "these evil guys didn't believe in god, so obviously not believing in god leads to terrible things.".
Is that the point?
If it is the point then it's pretty easy to find examples of other tyrants and atrocities by people who did/do believe in God and say "these evil guys did believe in God, so obviously believing in God leads to terrible things". It's the same principle.
I'm really not trying to put words in your mouth. That's just the way it looks to me. If there is a different reason to bring up these lunatics as examples of atheists gone wrong then I'd love to hear it.