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ORIGINAL: Tkman117

Ya because you know, they did those horrible things to further the atheist "cause" [8|]

Seriously man, do you even understand reality or do you just go with whatever the right wing says?

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ORIGINAL: Tkman117

Funny coming the guy who makes unsubstantiated claims that athiesm was the reason Stalin and the others did horrible things. I'd rather be known for being a dick than a red neck moron who knows nothing about the world any day.

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Christian philosophers and theologians explain that there are causal links between mass murder and atheism. Atheism, lack belief in God, have the following characteristics that can lend itself to mass murder and can explain why the greatest mass murderers were atheists:

lack of recognition of an ultimate judge of moral actions and a judge who sets injustice aright in a last judgement, and thus do not recognize the immorality of murder.

lack of seeing the importance of human beings as images of God and so easily discarding them as merely material things, products of mere chance.

lack of acknowledging an external standard of moral perfection, thus ending up with self-created standards which can include killing for political survival.

absence of guidance by divine revelation of the moral law, such as "Thou shalt not kill".

following an ethic of atheistic evolutionism that is based on the survival and victory of the fittest, which is ultimately a bloodthirsty ethic - an ethic that is eager to kill and to maim. This ethic is about conquering others rather than self-conquest.

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Apparently it was just an amazing coincidence that every Communist of historical note publicly declared his atheism … .there have been twenty-eight countries in world history that can be confirmed to have been ruled by regimes with avowed atheists at the helm … These twenty-eight historical regimes have been ruled by eighty-nine atheists, of whom more than half have engaged in democida acts of the sort committed by Stalin and Mao …

The total body count for the ninety years between 1917 and 2007 is approximately 148 million dead at the bloody hands of fifty-two atheists, three times more than all the human beings killed by war, civil war, and individual crime in the entire twentieth century combined.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

here's something germane to the current direction of the thread:

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Christian philosophers and theologians explain that there are causal links between mass murder and atheism. Atheism, lack belief in God, have the following characteristics that can lend itself to mass murder and can explain why the greatest mass murderers were atheists:

lack of recognition of an ultimate judge of moral actions and a judge who sets injustice aright in a last judgement, and thus do not recognize the immorality of murder.

lack of seeing the importance of human beings as images of God and so easily discarding them as merely material things, products of mere chance.

lack of acknowledging an external standard of moral perfection, thus ending up with self-created standards which can include killing for political survival.

absence of guidance by divine revelation of the moral law, such as "Thou shalt not kill".

following an ethic of atheistic evolutionism that is based on the survival and victory of the fittest, which is ultimately a bloodthirsty ethic - an ethic that is eager to kill and to maim. This ethic is about conquering others rather than self-conquest.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_Mass_Murder

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Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Butovo_Martyrs_Icon.jpg/220px-Butovo_Martyrs_Icon.jpg[/img]

Russian Orthodox Icon showing the execution of martyrs at the Butovo firing-range.

Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1922-1991), Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on the particular era. Soviet policy, based on the ideology of Marxism-Leninism, made atheism the official doctrine of the Soviet Union. Marxism-Leninism has consistently advocated the control, suppression, and the elimination of religious beliefs.[1]

The state was committed to the destruction of religion,[2][3] and destroyed churches, mosques and temples, ridiculed, harassed and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with atheistic teachings, and generally promoted atheism as the truth that society should accept.[4][5] The total number of Christian victims of Soviet state atheist policies, has been estimated to range between 12-20 million.[6][7][8]

Religious beliefs and practices persisted among the majority of the population,[4] in the domestic and private spheres but also in the scattered public spaces allowed by a state that recognised its failure to eradicate religion and the political dangers of an unrelenting culture war.[2][9]

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ORIGINAL: Tkman117


So your source is quite literally the most biased source against athiesm that is out there. Ya, that's quite the credible source there bounty [8|]

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

Nor are all Christians religious...I'm not.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Radical Atheist Kills Three Muslims in North Carolina

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