You know their your bretheren. Gulags. Re-education camps. The KGB. Poland, Hungary, Romania (I'm half Romanian), East Germany, China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea. Marx and Mao ("Religion is the Opiate of the People"), Stallin, Lennin, Castro.
Many of you atheists (not all, but many) talk of Christain Crusades, serial killers, murderers and executions of criminals.
What of YOUR Atheist Bretheren?
Any views or comments on the legacy of organized Athiesm?
2006-10-31 17:03:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I already mentioned the legacy of Christianity with the crusades, et al. I'm not blind to reality, but many Atheists seem to think they don't stink the bathroom after they go there! Commies attach themselves to you with their anti-religious views. Their Opiate of the People sayings.
Don't point fingers when your own kindred do awful things too!
Openly divorce yourself from them before confronting religious people or suffer the association!
ALL atheists PRETEND that RELGIONS do ALL WRONG and ATHEISTS do NO WRONG.
Sorry, it ain't true!
2006-10-31 17:37:34 · update #1
The only thing all atheists have in common is the disbelief in gods. Atheists will and do have all sorts of different views on communism as they would on anything else.
2006-10-31 17:07:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
I think that Marx had an interesting idea that would work only for small groups. For a national economic system, it outright sucks.
That said: Modern "Communists" are no bretheren of mine. Their attacks and suppression of religion had zero to do with ideology and everything to do with power. Lenin and Stalin were all about consolidating the power of the State over everything else. That included: Non-Communist political groups. Liberals. Religious institutions. Freethinkers. Organized labor. Educators.
In short: It was all about personal power. No one has ever been killed in the name of atheism. Not one church has been burned in the name of atheism.
Communism has as much to do with atheism as Buddhism has to do with the White House.
2006-10-31 17:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by Scott M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Those leaders took god out of the loop so they could be the center of worship. Many people are small and so they need something small to worship like a god or a ruler. They can be contented if they are pleasing their god or ruler, it makes things simple for them. So all the people in those communist countries weren't actually atheists, they worshiped Stallin, Lennin, Castro, or whatever the ruler may be. Maybe we all worship something on some level, but I will not worship any human or any fictional characters that we make up i.e. gods.
2006-10-31 17:22:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm sorry Jane, yet you relatively are uninformed. specific, the contributors of the Communist social gathering have been probably generally atheists, yet they make up a small share of total atheists international huge. besides, atheism replaced into no longer created alongside with communism. Atheism has existed for hundreds of years, and is in all probability as previous as religions. Zvi the Jewish Fiddler
2016-11-26 21:29:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know of any Atheists that are advocating the elimination of their private property so that they can share it with you. Just because someone doesn't choose to believe in a God doesn't make them a communist, and what about the legacy that religions have left behind? We can point fingers at each and every group and get no where.
2006-10-31 17:22:47 · answer #5 · answered by buttercup 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Real buddhists are all atheist, and we are certaintly are not all communists.
In the countries you mentioned religious activity was simply supressed.
There is no religion or a common platform/agenda for aethists.
Aethists could be communists, liberals or even facists. In fact over here in Sri Lanka some buddhist priests ( who are aethists) behave like racist fascists.
2006-10-31 17:22:28 · answer #6 · answered by rohan s 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To answer your 3 questions in turn: (1) Atheists don't have any particular opinion of communists. Atheists' opinions about communists differ as much as anyone else's. (2) Some of my atheist brethren talk about the things you mentioned, and others don't. Some aren't even interested. (I'm not sure I understand your second question. Maybe you should try making it clearer. "What of them?" I dunno. What does that mean?) (3) I have no views on organized atheism, because, as far as I know, there's no such thing. Unless you mean the National Association for the Advancement of Atheism. My view on that is that is that it doesn't exist.
2006-10-31 17:16:43 · answer #7 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Well Jesus Christ was a pretty good communist but it's all about the cult of the personality, once that takes hold atheism descends into the same chaos as religion
2006-10-31 17:25:22 · answer #8 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As far as I am concerned you have no idea what you are on about, look up the word athiest and read the full meaning and then tell me if it's got anything to do with communism.These people you are refering to are dictators as was Hitler and the people of these countries have to go along with them or suffer the consequences.WHO CARES WHERE A PERSON COMES FROM THE FACT IS IF THEY ARE NICE PEOPLE THIER IS NOT A PROBLEM.IT'S PEOPLE WITH YOUR ATTITUDE THAT CAUSES ISSUES AMONG PEOPLE . DONT JUDGE PEOPLE IT IS NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
2006-10-31 17:17:32 · answer #9 · answered by Knackers 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
What does one have to do with the other? Communists weren't motivated by religion. They were motivated by a difference in political agenda. They aren't the same thing.
2006-10-31 17:17:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋