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I mean that it is a shared obsession that can intensify our better and worse natures, but the worse outweighs the better.
by will_pseudonym 11y ago
I mean that it is a shared obsession that can intensify our better and worse natures, but the worse outweighs the better.
- reitanqild 11y agoFWIW a couple of the absolute worst periods has been under decidedly atheist regimes (Communist Russia etc + French revolution). Then again I think atheism is a religion too.
- andrepd 11y agoIs communist Russia objectively worse than the crusades or the Catholic inquisition or ISIS? Let's just be honest here and say that human being are capable of pretty cruel things, regardless of being spurned by religion or not. And why is atheism a religion. Isn't its definition a lack of religion?
- reitanqild 11y ago> Is communist Russia objectively worse than the crusades or the Catholic inquisition or ISIS? In numbers, yes. > Isn't its definition a lack of religion? I thought it was defined by the lack of belief in deities / supernatural powers. I might be wrong.
- andrepd 11y agoEven if true, you can't compare the death toll of post industrial WWII and the crusades on numbers alone. Precisely. A lack of belief.
- reitanqild 11y agoIf you want to argue that, also take a good look at the French Revolution. > A lack of belief. In deities and supernatural powers. In other aspects I find many forum atheists to believe strongly in theories that are way above their heads.
- lmm 11y agoAtheism isn't a religion any more than Gentile is a religion.
- tassl 11y agoThe atrocities committed during these periods were not made in the name of atheism, which is the main difference with ISIS or inquisition. Whatever they did, it was not consequence of their atheistic beliefs.
- philh 11y agoIn that case, I think I could make a compelling argument that gangster rap is more of a religion than the Amish faith.