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In (as far as I know) no countries would you be killed by atheists if you're non-atheist. To be fair, Russia in 1920-1930s was pretty close to that. One surely
by AlexTWithBeard 7y ago
In (as far as I know) no countries would you be killed by atheists if you're non-atheist.
To be fair, Russia in 1920-1930s was pretty close to that. One surely may argue that communism is also a religion, so they were simply getting rid of the competition.
- holografix 7y agoYuval Noah Harari argues in “Sapiens” pretty convincingly that communism and capitalism are religions.
- dghf 7y agoI think it's not so much that he argues they are religions, but that he uses a definition of religion that encompasses them: viz., the belief in an order that is not of human invention but that imposes human moral norms. But that definition is possibly the only fully consistent and coherent one I've seen that covers everything commonly regarded as a religion; it just covers quite a bit extra, too.