Do Atheists or Agnostic extremists exist?

Answer 1

Between Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin, they killed close to 100 million people.

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin was an atheist extremist. He persecuted Christians and Jews in the Soviet Union.

I guess the answer is yes, but I am pretty sure that there are a lot more Christian extremists out there than there are atheist or agnostic extremists.

Answer 3

Slaying the believers doesn't work. This was tried by the Romans and the Communists, and it just creates a mess because the believers are crazy and persistant. Few atheists would be willing to die for atheism, because most atheists hold religion as unnecessary and unimportant in their own lives, and therefore not something worth fighting about. There is so much else we can do in our short lives. The religious can pretty much be counted on to kill each other off.

Answer 4

No, because Atheists just don't believe in any religion.
Agnostics are indifferent with religion. They aren't sure yet if religion is correct or if atheism is correct. It wouldn't make sense to be an agnostic extremist.

Answer 5

I dunno, Atheism and Agnosticism don't really have specific dogmas or doctrines to follow, but if they were a part of a Atheist or Agnostic religion, like Buddhism, then maybe they could be Buddhist extremists.

Im sure to an extent they exist, but not to the extent that they'd blow up Churchs or Mosques or anything. Once you don't believe in something, can you really be "Extremely disbelieving" in something?

Guys like Stalin and Mao were Atheist I believe, but I don't think they were led by Atheism similar to guys like George W. Bush are led by Christianity.

Answer 6

I suppose you do get "extremist" Aethiests, but they tend to just be more loud and argumentative with people, rather than running around being terrorist "extremists".

I'm not entirely sure if it's possible to have an Agnostic extremist by definition.

Answer 7

If there are religious extremists, why is it hard to see that agnostic extremists exist.

Answer 8

I would say that Madalyn Murray O'Hair was an atheist extremist. She founded the 'American Atheists," sued the state of Maryland over bible readings in school, and was known as "the most hated woman in America." But she was murdered in 1995. Can't think of any others as notorious!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O'Hair

By the way, I'm an atheist, but I keep my beliefs to myself in order to stay out of trouble! ..Uh oh.

Answer 9

thank you for the question. I hadn't heard this argument in the previous, and that i detect it fascinating. i will in all risk be questioning approximately it lots contained in here few days. i'm Jewish, yet no longer orthodox. In Mr. Harris's kind, i might in all risk be interior the mid-to-outer circle. yet i'm no longer extraordinarily traumatic approximately "extremists," different than for people who choose to interrupt the regulation or stand the form on its head. for my section, people who wreck the regulation must be dealt with by using the criminal equipment, regardless of their non secular ideals or association. As for the orthodox Jews -- the "fundamentalists" -- I study very much from them, and make the main of their occasion. certainly, i think of fundamentalism on the middle could be needed for the survival of a faith. So in a feeling, those on the "middle" additionally validate those interior the outer circles.

Answer 10

yes, i am an atheist but i have friends who are religious and i keep my opinions to myself around them and don't try to stop them from expressing their right to have a religion. But if an atheist is actively trying to prevent people from worshiping as they see fit (as long as such worship , doesn't entail passing laws based on their religious views) then that person is just as guilty of extreme ism as the person who says "all should believe the same as me, or leave the country"

Answer 11

lol I don't think so...

I mean, can you *extremely* disbelieve?

But here is food for thought - maybe atheists are extreme agnostics. Agnostics dont see anything to convince them that god exists, but they are open to finding evidence. Atheists believe that there is never going to be any evidence. Just something to think about.