Can we agree that the fundamentalist zealots who caused the most death & suffering over the past century were radical utopian atheists?
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Many of those who rejected Christianity didn't embrace humanism. They embraced eugenicism and various forms of totalitarianism.
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And that is the problem. Not what people *don't* believe in but what they *do* believe in.
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No-one is inspired to totalitarianism by the things they don't believe in & atheism is simply a disbelief in one thing.
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Fair enough. I'll amend my comment from "radical utopian atheists" to "radical utopian anti-theists." /1
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The comment to which I replied was "Conservative religiosity of ANY kind .. is dangerous to everyone and needs to be opposed everywhere." /2
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I wanted to modify that to "fundamentalist zealotry of any kind" & point out that the worst offenders in the past century were communists.
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We can agree there. There is no reason to think ideological extremism is limited to religion. It clearly arises in secular worldviews too.
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Apologies for my impatience, Gil. I'll withdraw here. Theology isn't my thing.
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