I'm guessing it's because it would be just too complicated to yell:
"Charles Darwin is great and Richard Dawkins is his prophet -- strictly in the metaphorical sense, of course!"
before lighting oneself up like a solstice tree.... but I could be wrong. Anybody got any better guesses?
2007-03-01 11:21:03 · 23 answers · asked by ? 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This question is not even worthy of answering.
2007-03-01 11:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
real atheists? Are we going to do the "no real Scotsman" fallacy returned? Who provides a rat's patootie with regard to the guy religious ideologies of tyrants? They do what they do, no longer because of the fact they hate faith, yet because of the fact faith is mostly a rallying element for resistance strikes. faith often opposes harsh authoritarian regimes because of the fact faith has its very own schedule and this is not any longer continuously well matched with tyrannical warlords. take a seem at that actuality laid bare in the present center East. you will see that the religious leaders between the Islamic fundamentalists are utilising the conflicts because of the fact they be responsive to if a average form of government gets into power, they lose the flexibility they have now. And it became into the comparable many cases in the previous. in simple terms take into consideration this record: The Christian-stimulated Crusades: the Spanish Inquisition; the Christian devastation of the Incan, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations; the Northern eire Catholic vs Protestant conflicts; the Ethnic cleansing of Kosovo (Christians vs. Islamists); the Darfur tragedy that keeps to be ongoing after over a decade. each and every a sort of became right into a case of religion enforcing itself on the lives of others. faith has a political schedule, too. you're an fool in case you do no longer see that. So of path while somebody else tries to take power, they discover it a genuine looking ingredient to do to objective to kill of the source of that opposition - and this is continuously in line with faith.
2016-10-02 05:35:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surprising it may be but this has happened...
During the fighting in Stalingrad the orders came down that any SS Man too badly wounded to walk was to be left behind with a machine pistol and an anti-tank mine. He was expected to resist to the last possible moment and then blow himself up, preferably taking as many Soviet infantry men with him as possible. And significant numbers of the Waffen SS were atheists.
This is also more evidence against the "no atheists in foxhioles" idea.
2007-03-01 11:41:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well... I can only speak for myself and my philosophy so that's what I'll answer from. No matter how bad some people try to make me feel, I understand that their behavior is simply based on the causes and conditions they live under that make up who they are, and that the only way to really effect change is to educate where I can and the rest I leave up to my karma, learn from what I can, etc. I also don't believe that causing harm and suffering is the answer to alleviating the harm and suffering others cause... btw I'm atheist and Tibetan Buddhist.
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2007-03-01 11:26:43 · answer #4 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What reason would we have for doing that? What would we be trying to achieve? In our minds everyone is equal and everyone has a right to life regardless of the delusions they suffer.
We don't commit suicide bombings because we're not delusional.
2007-03-01 11:44:28 · answer #5 · answered by God Fears Me 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actualy they do! The Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka do more suicide bombings than anyone and they are Marxists and therefore athiests (with a Buddist philosophical leaning).
2007-03-01 11:30:05 · answer #6 · answered by Tirant 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Atheists don't commit suicide bombing because they understand the political process enough to change it with out blowing themselves up.
2007-03-01 13:56:40 · answer #7 · answered by jetthrustpy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a theist, but I do believe that religion can cause some degree of delusion, sometimes. Atheists lack that delusional fanaticism.
2007-03-01 11:25:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Wow get a life.
Same could be said for Christians as you believe when you die you go to heaven so why wait?
2007-03-01 11:45:17 · answer #9 · answered by Krayden 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No promise of any sort of a reward in an afterlife for doing so.
I love my life too darn much to give it up for anyone other than my kids. (Obviously I would throw myself in front of a bus for them.)
But I like your answer! :)
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2007-03-01 11:27:26 · answer #10 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I can't even imagine starting a war in the name of atheism.
2007-03-01 11:25:42 · answer #11 · answered by Alex 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋