It's interesting that every time the history of Marxism and collectivism comes up on this board, some people on the left start dancing so fast you can't even see their feet move.
Yes, I'm talking about the Soviet Union, Maoist China, Pot's Cambodia, Cuba, and the rest.
These were atheistic governments. The history of massive oppression of all organized religions in these nations would settle the argument if nothing else would.
And between them they murdered approximately 100 million human beings.
This is not speculation. This is fact.
As for tying socialism, or more precisely, Marxism to atheism, trying to dance around that connection is as ludicrous as a skinhead trying to explain that Nazism does not automatically imply racism or anti-Semitism. Maybe in theory it doesn't. I wouldn't know. But I am much more interested in practice than theory.
This does not mean that religious nations do not have their share of blood throughout history. That they do is even more obviously true. But trying to make the case that atheism is somehow inherently a force for peace is ludicrous.
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re: Atheist nations.
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