1/ I agree that 2 wrongs don't make a right. I'm not justifying evil done in the name of any theistic or anti-theistic worldview.
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Replying to @GilR @IonaItalia
2/ But I don't agree that their atheism was irrelevant. Hatred of God & religion was core to Marx & Stalin. ...
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Replying to @GilR @IonaItalia
3/ And rejecting Christianity & all its values left a void where respect for human life should have been, w/ no constraints on man's evil.
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Replying to @GilR @IonaItalia
That doesn't follow, Gil.Non-Christians simply don't consider its positive values to be uniquely Christian. Humanism covers the best of them
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
Many of those who rejected Christianity didn't embrace humanism. They embraced eugenicism and various forms of totalitarianism.
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Replying to @GilR @IonaItalia
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
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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