Hmmm. Can't agree with this. People very rarely kill or die for things they don't believe in. Much evidence they can and have killed and died for harmful ideologies that are atheist or secular tho.https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/970080084773212163 …
Because people are inspired by things they do believe in and not things they don't believe in. It doesn't mean atheists are better people or less inclined to do bad things. Atheists can do terrible violence but for things they do believe in rather than things they don't.
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So help me out: let's say a hypothetical "atheist" regime actively roots out and exterminates religious groups because it undermines the regime. Would you be wiling to chock that up to killings in the name of atheism? Or is that just politics?
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If an atheist regime was set up to eradicate religion because it was believed essential no-one believed in gods, sure. This hasn't happened tho. Suppression of religion has always happened to promote another ideology - another religion or communism.
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It;s hard to see what an atheist regime would be based on because there are no values to a disbelief. No morals, or economic structure, or class structure or beliefs. There would need to be something to promote, not just something to tell ppl not to believe in.
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So believing in not-God doesn't count as a belief? You should consider: why would people kill "in the name of God"? Hint: it's not to save them, it's because they believe their victims may be killed justly, or with impunity. Why can't atheists believe that of their victims?
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That would be a disbelief. Again this is semantics. I disbelieve in many things. It just seems awkward to describe this as a belief in not-psychics, a belief in not-ghosts etc. Atheists can believe that. They can kill because they think it's righteous according to some ideology
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Gotta run, but thanks for the chat!
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