Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Responsible for the greatest crimes

Some religious believers like to claim that because Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot were atheists it is those dratted atheists that are the cause of all the evil in the world, responsible for the greatest crimes of history. This is similar to the idea that it is impossible for atheists to have developed a system of morality.

This writer claims it wasn't atheism that drove them. The issue isn't whether they were critical of religion, but that they required dogmatism similar to many religions. They required the same suspension of reason. They were examples of dogma run amok.

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