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Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao were all atheists, and look what they did!

This is a frequent and tiresome ad hominem frequently resorted to by religious fundamentalists fast approaching total cognitive surrender, and I'd like to include a complete rebuttal here before I forget it.



To begin with I'm going to leave Hitler to one side and examine our other three lumninaries. What did Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao Tse Tung all have in common apart from their atheism? Anyone? They all had a fanatical devotion to collectivism.



In short all three… Continue

Added by Anthony Moss on January 29, 2010 at 9:40am — 4 Comments

Hitler was an Atheist, Darwin was racist and other fun facts.

This was originally posted in reply to a blogger who felt that lack of belief in the Creator leads to immorality. Luckily, having just read a couple of chapters in TGD, as recommended to me by Randy from the TNA, my response was ready-made.



I keep an open mind to the possibility that God might exist, but overwhelming evidence suggests that the… Continue

Added by Rene Benthien on May 12, 2009 at 8:36am — 7 Comments

Dictators & Atheism

If I had a penny for every time a theist told me that on many occasions in history, atheism has been the cause of genocide...particularly Pol Pot, Hitler and Stalin.



I wrote a blog post about Hitler and Stalin in particular over at my blog: http://www.odd-innuendo.net. I won't bother reposting it here, as I would just be preaching to the choir.



I'm getting tired and frustrated. Maybe I need to take a break and do what I enjoy...photography and art...but then again, I just… Continue

Added by Odd Innuendo on February 23, 2009 at 10:04pm — 7 Comments

"Atheist Crimes" of the last century - The Responses

Since atheists are often accused, unfairly of course, of causing the biggest genocides of the last century, I wrote a detailed article on how to respond to the charges. The strategy takes into account the fact that many religious people are not really aware of how cause and effect works. Nevertheless, the approach to this problem differs from individual to individual.



I have listed 6 possible answers that could be used, sometimes in combinations of two or more, to debate any… Continue

Added by Ajita Kamal on February 9, 2009 at 12:00pm — 10 Comments

Atheism is not the opposite of Christianity

though you could be forgiven for thinking so.

No the opposite of Atheism is Theism. Two different answers to the question - Do you believe in god (assuming of course their can be agreement on exactly what god is, but I digress)?

Now belief or disbelief in a god does not cause one to go out and commit acts of atrocity, or of loving kindness for that matter. No for that something extra has to be added.

Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate and Physicist is quoted as…

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Added by Sean the Blogonaut on September 19, 2008 at 12:31am — 3 Comments

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