First off, I don't think deaths in the name of religion were at all acceptable (homocide bombings by Muslims, crusades, protestant and Catholic inquisitions, etc.)
Officially atheistic societies have caused the most deaths in this century especially, Stalin 20Mill, Hitler 8Mill, China 80Mill, abortion, and many, many more. Why dont people recognize this?
2006-11-16 12:52:19 · 12 answers · asked by ben 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fine, then societies which prohibit religious practice, which the USSR was, and Hitler eventually wanted to return Germany to its early days, he wasn't doing his evil in the name of Christianity, he killed thousands of Catholics!
2006-11-16 12:57:23 · update #1
Rutilus, there is no monarch in China, Hitler wasnt ruling his party with christianity as a theme, and Stalin was definetly not a Christian, he may have been born one though.
2006-11-16 12:59:47 · update #2
How can you equate Holocaust-Christianity???
2006-11-16 13:01:12 · update #3
eri, you make a fallacy of reason by saying people who are atheists are open minded and religious are not, that is an extremely close-minded statement!!!Dont you see what your saying? if you dont think like me, your close-minded?? you ARE close minded
2006-11-16 13:03:37 · update #4
Excellent question. People seem to be more quick to point out the flaws in others beliefs than acknowledge their own.
Stalin WAS athiest. To claim otherwise is ridiculous. How can the head of what was an officially athiest state (and it was despite what others posted) be theist?
Although Hitler was born Catholic, his beliefs were definately not Christian (ie: Christ was Aryan and fought the Jews; Aryan's evolved from Adam and Eve, and everyone else evolved naturally, etc...). He may not have been athiest, but he certainly wasn't Christian. Jadwiga Biskupska, who wrote "Hitler & Triumph of the Will: A Nazi Religion in the Catholic Style" in Undergraduate Quarterly, September/November 2004, even states: "...he ridicules the teachings of Church fathers and the practice of the Catholic faith... he detested the doctrines, of the Roman Church... Institutionalized religion, in Hitler's view, was a waning phenomenon...".
2006-11-16 12:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
there is just no possible logical way to argue with any of this. the asker has obviously learned everything that a seventh grade history book can teach about religion and war. there is simply too much research that has gone into this question for it to be argued with. add in the knowledge of the officially atheistic societies
of the world and the removal of any possible connection to the wars that were started by so called holy men (crusades etc.)
and we have a statement that is solid proof that atheist's have caused all of the worlds problems.
if anyone is missing my sarcasm here.
there are no official athiest societies. and there never has been one. people need something to believe in. be it god or gods or a divine leader of some form people have always and always will believe in higher powers. with the exception of a few people (athiest's)
Hitler quoted the bible on many occasions.
some of the biggest wars of all time are downplayed because of their religious afiliation.
wars that were started by religious people are listed as comming form athiestic society. when it is brought to light that they were not athiest's the asker changes the statement to well they tried to keep religion from being prominent in society.
kind of sounds like what the christians are trying to do the everyone that does not agree with them now does it not.
furthermore the statement about an open minded person saying that close minded people is in itself a closed minded statement is just rediculous.
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in actual answer to the question....
i have never heard someone say that. because religion has caused the most deaths that people should follow athiesim. i hve heard that because religion dies not make sense that people should follow athiesim.
Rev. Chris J
2006-11-16 21:21:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Atheists don't for some reason.
I answered a question today in which I said I was an equal opportunity basher and I made citations for Islam, Christianity and Atheism, using your above examples and it got an E-MAIL from the questioner who demanded to know why I allign Atheists with those murders.
I don't. It's a fact. Just like the Crusades of Christianity or the Jihad of Islam, Atheist leaders also do similar things.
That's why Jesus said if you live in a glass house, don't throw stones.
2006-11-16 21:19:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not Hitler and not abortion. Abortion is commited by people of all religions.
There are a bunch of theories about Hitler's religion so that shouldn't be used. This website makes some very good points about Hitler being a Christian: http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm
You're also only counting killing in the name of religion but counting atheist killings and killing in the name of atheism. Atheism doesn't start wars but religion does.
2006-11-16 21:11:34 · answer #4 · answered by 1337 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Again, most religions do not cause the deaths. Its people, who either in delusion or misinterpret the teachings, go around declaring wars on one another. They are the extremists, who are also the most attention grabbing bunch.
Even without religion, wars will still continue, either in the name of country or whatever the leaders can trounced up. Bush psychoed America into going war cause he said that it was a security threat to USA.
2006-11-16 20:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by Dumbguy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one is saying that people should follow atheism and Hitler wasn't an atheist. That doesn't matter though, if the god that so many people believe in actually exists, it has murdered more people than Hitler, China, and Stalin combined x1000000000.
2006-11-16 20:54:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Prohibiting religion is not the same as encouraging atheism. No one would really want to prohibit religion - well, we might, but we know it wouldn't work. We just need to encourage people to think for themselves, and to think critically. That doesn't logically lead to killing people.
2006-11-16 20:59:42 · answer #7 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quite possibly the most flawed statistics I have ever seen.
Hitler was a Christain, China is not an officially atheistic country, nor was the USSR, the only country to officially be atheistic was Albania.
Abortion is not the result of atheism, it's the result of pro-choice.
You sir, are an idiot.
2006-11-16 20:54:49 · answer #8 · answered by Seth 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Ignorant people are dangerous whether they believe in God or not. Ignorant people take religion to extremes because they can not completely understand the whole picture and that is how people die.
2006-11-17 00:55:55 · answer #9 · answered by victoriah68 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stalin- Christianity
Holocaust- Christianity
China- That is because the monarch hates buddhists
don't forget the dark ages
2006-11-16 20:55:06 · answer #10 · answered by nukeYOU 1 · 6⤊ 2⤋