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The biggest genocides were committed by these atheist regimes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong http://en.wik
by hdyeh683 12y ago
The biggest genocides were committed by these atheist regimes -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Here's one excerpt, "Raised in the Georgian Orthodox faith, Stalin became an atheist. He followed the position that religion was an opiate that needed to be removed in order to construct the ideal communist society. His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the anti-religious work of public institutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers. By the late 1930s, it had become dangerous to be publicly associated with religion.[97]"
- marcfawzi 12y agoThat hardly obfuscates the fact that people WERE mass murdered in the name of religion.
- visarga 12y agoSo, people were mass murdered in the name of both theism and atheism. What does that mean?
- marcfawzi 12y agoJust as it's offensive to celebrate's Hitler's (or Bush's) artistic achievements, it's offensive to celebrate the works of any religion. But for some insane reason, religions get to be celebrated for their contribution to the arts and humanities despite having been the force behind many episodes of genocide. Humans are crazy in that way.
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