Don't know. But it's probably not because he didn't believe in God. Because he hated religion?
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Replying to @jeff_techentin @ComradeSnake
Most atheists and theists are also agnostic because they don't claim to know God to exist or not. They just disbelieve or believe.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ComradeSnake
Not sure I even understand your terms. No theist "knows" God to exist in any sense beyond confidence in one's faith and I suppose atheists, with some sodium pentathol, would allow for the possibility of the existence of God. So are the terms theist and atheist meaningless?
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And if their not meaningless, I think you're suggesting they're just different belief structures. So why should one be more prone to (negative) action than the other?
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Replying to @jeff_techentin @ComradeSnake
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @ComradeSnake
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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Replying to @jeff_techentin @ComradeSnake
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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