Are kamakazis, suicide bombers, and crusaders proof that atheists are better critical thinkers than religious?

Answer 1

As far as rational thought you ideology is being the mother of terror your a bit off base. While islamic radicals are doing their stuff, look conversely as Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao to the larger number of deaths in the 20th century, the men were avowed atheists. sectarian violence because of ethnicity as in Rwanda.. In fact the victims of these heinous people tended to have beliefs that were views threats to the state ideology.

Ideology kills more people. Leftist Ideology, the Ideology of Jihad, makes little difference how it's packaged. Death ensues.
Critical thinking, you ask? seems to me as far as critical thought about humanity, equality and liberty being ideals, atheists are poor examples to live by.. The islamo fascists have adopted and usurped their "religion" for a state cause as did Hitler..

Deitrich Bonhoffer the Lutheran theologian protested the "state run" religion of the nazi party as it was no longer Christian principles but a mix of germanic mythos and nazi propaganda that was re-writing scripture to fit the goals of the party.
Hitler killed 8-12 millions jews because he hated jews,

Stalin repressed religion to the point of 50 million of his own people suffered in gulags, and 20 million died as the result of his attempts to purge religion and rational thought from society through terror.
The cultural revolution of the 1960s maoist regime purged millions of people, as the result of communist ideology.

kamakazis, suicide bombers, fall into a category of worship in cultish fashions where in the kamakazi's case it was noble to die as the devine wind for the emperor. suicide bombers die to attain 72 virgins, but as the result of 20 years of brainwashing by ideologues and dictatorial thugs like the mullahs. The crusaders, were fighting back the islamic cult from the 10th to the 12th century after the islamic horde had began encroaching on european turf.

It is sad to say religious strife does seem to have a role in the deaths of many people. But I counter to say ideologies kill or enslave more.

Answer 2

Kamakzis, suicide bombers, and crusaders aren't (or weren't) atheists. So, there is no logic in your question therefore a logical answer can't be provided.

Athiests are people who assert that there are no gods and those who make no claim about whether gods exist or not.

The suicide bombers in Iraq and in the middle east are Islamic. They have a religion and are being martyrs by killing themselves for the greater good.

During WWII, 84% of Japanese people professed to believe both Shinto (the indigenous religion of Japan) and Buddhism. Kamazkazis were amongst these people.

Crusaders (from a long time ago) were from Catholic Europe against Muslim Saracens in the Middle East. Therefore, their religions were christianity or islam. Crusaders today crusade for their religious purpose.

Answer 3

History is full of people who died for nonreligious ideals -- in suicide missions during wartime or in protecting the people they loved, for example. I think there are occasions on which one might rationally and purposefully decide to die for a cause.

Answer 4

there have been anarchist bombers in the previous WW1. i imagine a lot of them were atheists. i wager atheists haven't any desire of an afterlife so that they could could be upset with the help of existence to the point they couldn't care about themselves to do it. recommendations you i imagine atheists are as reliable as anybody at killing others. Robespierre + Commitee of Public safe practices, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, "Shining course" terrorists in Peru or Bolivia, Nepal communist terrorists. i could regard Hitler as an atheist .. he believed in Germany, a mundane idol, and led to thousands and thousands to die.

Answer 5

I don't know look at communist countries and the number of people killed there (Stalinist purges, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Khmer Rouge, etc)

Are secular people any less crazy?

Answer 6

dukalink6000 is wrong. It has been proven there were atheists in foxholes. The examples make a strong argument, but...

Answer 7

Evil has no particular religion, or lack of it. It's just people trying to justify their evil by hiding behind relgion or political ideology.

Answer 8

nope.


what is it that makes atheists critical thinkers anyway?



---hey, i think you misspelled the word kamikaze

Answer 9

Nope.

Answer 10

Well, there are no atheists in foxholes.