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Where are the peaceable, prosperous, and happy atheist nations hiding?
by crassus 13y ago
Where are the peaceable, prosperous, and happy atheist nations hiding?
- marcosdumay 13y agoThey have been conquered. Literally. At older times religion was one of the biggest tools used to create armies, and conquer the neighbors' land.
- crassus 13y agoName some of them.
- CaptainZapp 13y agoYou may want to educate yourself by looing into the 30 year war, as one of many, many exmples.
- crassus 13y agoI'm sorry, which were the atheist nations participating in the 30 years' war?
- vukmir 13y ago>"Where are the peaceable, prosperous, and happy atheist nations hiding?" In Scandinavia, perhaps?
- crassus 13y agoIn modern times perhaps. But they were Christian for a thousand years before that. Majority atheist nations have existed for only a fraction of an instant in historical terms (unless you count the Buddhists as atheists). The first was probably the USSR.
- enraged_camel 13y agoStop moving goalposts.
- crassus 13y agoI just think it amusing that his example of atheist nations are countries with crosses on their flags. You can't separate the history of the West from the history of Christianity without committing ahistorical absurdities.
- vukmir 13y agoAmusing, true. False, I don't think so. P.S. I'm not separating the West and Christianity. Just pointing out that today, in my opinion, the countries of Scandinavia can be considered to be peaceful, prosperous, and (mostly) atheist.