sen.c
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Well by deffinition Atheism is defined as believeing there is no God, or there is no diety. I am sure that if Stalin were in fact a true believer in God he would not have committed the atrocitiesStalin wanted to discourage competition. Again, you can't link anything Stalin did directly with atheism.
against his people that he did.
Now as far as the deffinition goes I am using Merriam Webster as reference, the problem is most atheists now like to say atheism is just the lack of belief in whatever they feel it may apply to at the time. I am not saying that as trying to speak for everyone but many I have had the pleasure of dialogue with that is how they use it. True atheists believe there is no God or deity and that is it, but there are other "neuvo" atheists that spin it to mean whatever they want as a cop out so they don't have to feel that they may be held accountable for whatever suits their needs at the time.
IMHO
No argument here, just a friendly reminder that maybe the other side of the fence feels the same way about the atheist view.When reason and rationality fail, when evidence is stacked against you, when you have no defense left in your arsenal, the only thing left to do is grief and troll and cause so much bother that the other side just quits. It is the refuge of a desperately ignorant mind, and the tactic currently being employed by oly. This is what we see from someone who is more interested in what they believe than they are the truth,( i.e they can't handle the truth) The truth becomes contemptible, the belief becomes authoritative, and they then feel justified in using whatever tactics and tricks necessary to give them the appearance of validity, which often amounts to simply exasperating the opposition into silence. This is the very demonstration of Dogma, and I think nothing better proves our point about the dangers of religion destroying the rational mind than oly's posts.
This thread was loaded from the begining, it will always be a great divide and nothing will come of all this back and forth. We won't change our belief system just as you won't change yours. Are any of us wrong for that, no.