2007-09-07 04:58:13 · 19 answers · asked by carl 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Are you so afraid of reason that you think that if you try and use your brain your gonna get hurt?
2007-09-07 04:59:38 · update #1
isnt that like saying evolutionists are atheists?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/communism
definition says nothing about being atheist... *shrug* it defines communism as type of government not a religion.
2007-09-07 05:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Many atheists see Communism as a belief system that functioned as an organized religion, but one that only claimed to be atheistic (just as some types of Christians claim to be kind and loving, but aren't). So to them, Communists have more in common with organized religion than they do with athists in general.
Sort of how Christians do not see Satanists as a branch off of their path.
2007-09-07 05:06:18 · answer #2 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't deny that at all- some are.
What I will deny though is any association with them- we don't have churches. We've NEVER been a group, and atheism is not a religion... so the atheist oppression questions are rather invalid... usually based upon bigotry and ignorance and the automatic assumption that just because your god ties all the members of your church together- that our lack of beliefs does the same... it doesn't.
2007-09-07 05:06:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Communists are generally atheists but it doesn't work the other way. Is that so hard to understand?
2007-09-07 05:08:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it's irrelevant. A political position has no real basis on religion, except in the case of theocracy or budding theocracy. You'll notice in your last question the reasning was,
"Stalin killed because a communist, not because he was an atheist."
Stop capitalizing atheist by the way, it makes you look ignorant. Well, more so.
2007-09-07 05:04:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Carl, your previous post on the same subject I took at face value and answered in kind, but with this one I see that you must be a young teenager and that you are to be put on the "Ignore" roster. It would do you no favors, lad, to be characterized as yet another troll.
2007-09-07 05:15:27 · answer #6 · answered by Yank 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are as dumb as fried dynamite, with all due respect. Most Atheists are NOT Communists. I don't know if most Communists are Atheists though - probably not.
2007-09-07 05:07:57 · answer #7 · answered by Meat Bot 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wasn't aware we did
You don't have to be an atheist to be a communist though and not all atheists are communists
2007-09-07 05:44:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm lazy, so I'll agree wholeheartedly with Chris Stanton and otherwise leave your ignorance be.
Shawn B, in all fairness, Nazi mysticism was much more Hindu in nature.
2007-09-07 05:08:53 · answer #9 · answered by Keyring 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly not all communists are atheists.
Communism does not particularly support religion, but it does not exclude it.
2007-09-07 05:08:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you deny that Christians/Muslims/Jews/Hindus/Buddhists are atheist?
We both know they don't believe in the almighty Zeus!
2007-09-07 05:06:26 · answer #11 · answered by Michael 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋