You've had your say. Now it's time for a rude awakening. Stalinism, Nazism, and Maoism were effectively State Religions based upon a cult of personality. The term atheism is bandied about all the time without assholes like you stopping to think what it means. All it means is someone who does not believe in a deity. That's it. The millions Stalin killed was not because he didn't believe in God, you jackass. He killed them because he was a psychotic tyrant who ruled with an iron fist and didn't tolerate dissent in any form. He also had a population of superstitious peasants who were kept ignorant by centuries of Czarism and eastern orthodoxy. He wouldn't have been much of a dictator if he couldn't exploit a people who worship figureheads as a matter of course.
By your logic, if Stalin had been a 'believer' he never would have committed the atrocities he did. That is patently false. What is true is that most people who identify as atheist today are largely scientific minded, skeptical people who don't believe in a personal god. The healthiest societies on the planet are practically all atheistic. Look to Sweden, Denmark, S. Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, and most of western Europe. Those countries rank the highest in the Human Development Index. Guess where all the religious countries rank? At the very bottom. People might identify with a particular religion based on cultural tradition in the 'atheistic' countries; they still have weddings in churches and all that, but they are non-believers, atheists, whatever you want to call them. So, get your shit straight before you go spewing your vitriol about 20th century nationalistic movements and STATE RELIGIONS.
The examples you give are like North Korea today. The Dear Leader is practically a god on earth to his people. What people like Hitchens and Dawkins and Harris argue for is logic, and reason, and not taking anything on blind faith because it's in some stupid old book written by primitive, racist, misogynistic men. They argue that religion is harmful because it is the source of mass delusion and it effectively stops skeptical inquiry. It is religion and dogma (in the name of Islam, or Christianity, or Stalinism, it makes no difference) which are the causes of almost all of human suffering from the beginning of recorded history.
Everyone thinks themselves the chosen people, everyone has the right book and all the answers. The fact of the matter is it is all bullshit, and lies, and delusion. How dare you call us arrogant - we who strive for knowledge and truth. What can be more arrogant than a group of people claiming to know the mysteries of the universe and what happens after we die when they don't have a single shred of evidence other than ancient folklore and fairy tales and contradictory scripture?
It is the people of faith who are arrogant - claiming to know things they can't possibly know, killing others who disagree with them, and lying to their own children. May your lives be miserable and brief, so the rest of us can get back to the business of moving human civilization forward; and living in a world where superstition and mysticism are distant memories.
By your logic, if Stalin had been a 'believer' he never would have committed the atrocities he did. That is patently false. What is true is that most people who identify as atheist today are largely scientific minded, skeptical people who don't believe in a personal god. The healthiest societies on the planet are practically all atheistic. Look to Sweden, Denmark, S. Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, and most of western Europe. Those countries rank the highest in the Human Development Index. Guess where all the religious countries rank? At the very bottom. People might identify with a particular religion based on cultural tradition in the 'atheistic' countries; they still have weddings in churches and all that, but they are non-believers, atheists, whatever you want to call them. So, get your shit straight before you go spewing your vitriol about 20th century nationalistic movements and STATE RELIGIONS.
The examples you give are like North Korea today. The Dear Leader is practically a god on earth to his people. What people like Hitchens and Dawkins and Harris argue for is logic, and reason, and not taking anything on blind faith because it's in some stupid old book written by primitive, racist, misogynistic men. They argue that religion is harmful because it is the source of mass delusion and it effectively stops skeptical inquiry. It is religion and dogma (in the name of Islam, or Christianity, or Stalinism, it makes no difference) which are the causes of almost all of human suffering from the beginning of recorded history.
Everyone thinks themselves the chosen people, everyone has the right book and all the answers. The fact of the matter is it is all bullshit, and lies, and delusion. How dare you call us arrogant - we who strive for knowledge and truth. What can be more arrogant than a group of people claiming to know the mysteries of the universe and what happens after we die when they don't have a single shred of evidence other than ancient folklore and fairy tales and contradictory scripture?
It is the people of faith who are arrogant - claiming to know things they can't possibly know, killing others who disagree with them, and lying to their own children. May your lives be miserable and brief, so the rest of us can get back to the business of moving human civilization forward; and living in a world where superstition and mysticism are distant memories.
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