Why do atheists detest religion yet no religious group has ever committed genocide on atheists?

Question

Atheists sympathize for all the Jews who were murdered and then turn their backs and say religion is for the weak-minded. Jews ARE religious by the way.

Answer 1

It doesn't particularly matter if atheists are targeted or Jews or Christians, etc... it's that HUMAN BEINGS, innocent people, are slaughtered in the name of religious faith.

Answer 2

So you never heard of the Salem Witch Hunts? How about the Crusades into the Middle East? This is what Christians do towards those that don't believe the way they do. There are no groups of Atheists to go after. They are not an organisation and there is no dogma. An Atheist can fall into so many different other categories - humanitarian, socialist, ecologist, pagan, environmentalist. My point is that being atheist isn't the definitive value of what a person is, it simply implies someone who doesn't believe in God - it could be anyone. The very nature of a Christian trying to convert people is in itself a form of persecution!

Answer 3

I wouldn't say I "detest" religion. I think it's silly and generally for the weak minded, but I don't detest it. I am very much aware that religion serves a purpose in society and in general it is a good moral compass for most people. However, I think people who follow religion are not free thinkers because religious dogma falls apart under any real scrutiny. Furthermore, I don't detest religious people, but I do get very upset when someone attempts to impose their religious beliefs on me.

And with respect of genocide, it would have nothing to do with whether the group/religion attempted genocide on me, but whether the belief system tends to encourage intolerance towards people with different beliefs.

Answer 4

Umm...yeah, they have. The Nazi didn't only kill Jews, they killed homosexuals, gypsies, Atheists & any other group of people they didn't want around. EVERY group has been discriminated against at some point in time.

Not all Atheists detest religion either. Some might've had a bad experience with it or just came to another conclusion. You're over generalizing big time, man.

Answer 5

Did 9/11 only happen to Christians? No, there were atheists, muslims, christians, buddhists, etc ALL in those buildings and on those planes.
How about the crusades, genius?
Maybe atheists sympathize for the jews because they've never done anything to hurt anyone or cause any trouble. They never try to push their religion onto others. We RESPECT them, but we don't share the same beliefs. We don't have to have the same beliefs as someone else in order to respect them or not!
Quit being a troll!

Answer 6

Wait, someone has to commit genocide on us before we're allowed to combat superstition being placed on the law books and in the classroom? That seems pretty unfair.

And yes, Judaism is a religion. Gold star for you; however, just because they are religious doesn't mean they deserve to be wiped out. Their religion may be equally false to all other religions but they are still people.

Answer 7

What I detest is your clown face, and you asking questions like this. I cannot take you seriously.
To answer your ridiculous question, since when do you have to be religious to be sympathetic when someone is tortured and killed in the way the Jews were? Being an atheist has nothing to do with not being able to be compassionate about people.

My boss is atheist, and her personal secretary's son was killed in Iraq last Wednesday. Guess what? She cried for her secretary's loss of her beloved son. I am christian, and I held my boss in my arms while she cried.

We cannot hear one another if we are both shouting. We will not be able to overcome the misunderstandings if we do not learn to listen to one another. No matter if we are christians or atheists. We are still from the same race, human.

Answer 8

In the European Middle Ages people were persecuted for heresy, especially in countries where the Inquisition was active. Medieval impiety and godlessness were closer to weak atheism than avowed strong atheism, and hardly any expression of strong atheism is known from this period. Medieval beliefs that most closely approach strong atheism were probably held by some members of the pantheistic Brethren of the Free Spirit. A man called Löffler, who was burned in Bern in 1375 for confessing adherence to this movement, is reported to have taunted his executioners that they would not have enough wood to burn "Chance, which rules the world."
Once appointed to the Chancellorship of Germany, Hitler banned freethought organizations and launched an “anti-godless” movement. In a 1933 speech he declared: “We have . . . undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.” Hitler was a devout Christian

Answer 9

sarcasm What are you talking approximately? do no longer you recognize that as a manner to commit atrocities you need to p.c.. a faith first? the 1st step in being evil is going to church and attempting to stay a ethical existence. Atheists and agnostics are consistently stable. They by no ability make errors. sarcasm i admire how human beings attempt and say that faith is the basis of all evil. How simplistic. They fake like in case you eliminate faith, all the wars, all the famine and greed will disappear. in basic terms the religious have those characteristics. What a load of ****. i'm particular human beings spent years crafting them (i'm agnostic, i do no longer think it grow to be inspired via God) to seem to be ethical beacons of guidance in order that as that each physique who grow to be a member would secretly understand which you're meant to do the choice. Atrocious human beings exist in all circles. they're not greater worry-unfastened among the religious than they're the different. i'd be susceptible to think of they're much less worry-unfastened among the religious through fact for each undesirable one you will locate, you will locate church homes complete of the main stable and truthful human beings the international has ever seen, and that is going for all religions. the sole difficulty with faith is a few human beings take it out of hand, and interpret the bible too strictly and have self assurance they have a mandate from God to do evil issues, and those human beings by no ability see them as evil. yet human beings do this each and all and sundry the time, you do no longer choose faith to misread the international and picture that via doing incorrect you're doing extraordinary.

Answer 10

Fisting,

Actually, plenty of atheists were burned at the stake as "infidels" during the Inquisition, and there are murders of "infidels" in Islamic countries today.

As for the Jews, many, many were of Jewish ethnicity but in fact atheist. I am not saying that is the REASON they were killed, but it is a fact.

Regardless, all you have to do is look at 9/11 to see that us atheists get caught in the crossfire of YOUR religious conflicts.