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by Tom on June 26th, 2007
What is the meaning of - "No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him."—John 6:44.
by arigato on December 30th, 2011
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When did Shinto become government sponsered
by ekelly4140 on February 12th, 2012
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Is your RELIGION creating your politics or your politics creating your religion or deficiency of one?
by -O-uknow on February 9th, 2012
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Are religious people less likely to help someone in trouble because they think god is punishing them for something they did?
by Ombliss22 on February 11th, 2012
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Why do you suppose ANYBODY believed Joseph Smith?
by josie III on January 10th, 2012
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Well written, 3-letter Tom.
by Stableboy on June 26th, 2007
Why thank you, SB. ;)
by Tom on June 26th, 2007
I agree that this is well written, but I would just point out one thing. You keep mention all of the terrorism, death, and destruction caused by religion, and I don't deny that such has occurred and been terrible, but in fairness, you also aught to acknowledge all of the death and destruction that have been caused by atheists. Religions do not hold a monopoly of power hungry people who will rape, murder, and destroy for their own personal ends.
by Glenn Blaylock on November 6th, 2007
Well I would agree with that too... the issue isn't so much religion per se as it is absolutism: the absolute commitment that some set of ideas represents the ultimate truth. Such meme sets are allowed to override more primitive, innate intuitions about right and wrong... they support elaborate justifications for obviously wrong actions. It's possible to do this with atheism as well as theism, with capitalism vs. communism, really with any -ism. Once ideas get in the saddle and start controlling the mind, more subtle forms of intelligence get quashed and bad things start to happen.
by Stableboy on November 6th, 2007
Well written, but Religion is more to do with social codes of dos and don'ts. Mostly adding numbers to one faith or other. Is it not a fact that world has lost more lives in sectarian fights in the name of Religion than any other cause? It is true various saviours have appeared in various places time and again to regulate the human living. But when they had left, the followers start Religions in their names to perpetuate their hold by putting blinkers and leaving the spiritual values.
by Brahmanyan on December 30th, 2007
I for one would like an example of destruction done by athiests in the name of athiesm.
by Fenchurch on November 14th, 2011
Communism, by definition is an atheistic philosophy. There have been millions of people murdered in the quest to establish communist states. Some hav even argued that communism has killed more people than religion has. The fact that communism has been around for such a short period of time and killed so many people shows that atheism can be just as bad about this, if not worse, than religion.
by Glenn Blaylock on November 15th, 2011
I really never made any connection ever in my life to communism and athiesm. A political viewpoint and a religious viewpoint are two different things? Communism is not inheritly athiest. It is possible to hold communist or socialist economic views while still being a theist, just as it is to be an athiest and defend capitalism.
Christianity is actually more inheritly communistic. Quite a bit of what Jesus says in the bible supports many of the emotional foundations of communism and socialism, such as sharing, giving your money to the poor, how hard it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heavan.
Besides, what might you specify as an athiest? Buddhists are technically athiests. Karl Marx was a protestant christian. I think lumping the two categories together is a little assuming.
by Fenchurch on November 15th, 2011
Communism, as put forward by Marx and Ingles, is atheistic. They specifically proposed that religion would be done away under the system. Marx referred to religion as being the opiate of the masses. He saw it as a tool by which the bourgeoisie kept the proletariat from rising up against them. All communist nations have tried (unsuccessfully) to suppress religion. So, yes, communism, as has been attempted on national levels, is atheistic.
Yes, there have been some religions societies that have also attempted to institute various level of socialism, but they have not been responsible for it on the scale that the atheistic communism has done so nor have they been responsible for the mass murders of the larger scale experiments in this form of governance.
Finally, you are confusing the way a person is raised with what he became. Marx may have been raised as a Protestant, but he became an atheist.
by Glenn Blaylock on November 15th, 2011