The religious zealotry of militant atheists is becoming apparent.

QED 

NorthOfNorth wrote on Apr 15^th, 2009 at 11:19pm:


Did she spank you on the head, dickie?
Is she  antithetical religionist? Or is she religious atheist?

Like stalin, like mao, like dickie ? 

Calanen wrote on Apr 16^th, 2009 at 3:41pm:


When people say that they don't believe in a god it's ok by me but when they say that they believe that god does not exist they proclaim their belief.  That is exactly what militant religious atheists do.
We already had the examples of muss murders by Mao and Stalin and have seen that  their religiously atheistic militant followers regarded them as supreme beings courtesy to helian.

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As for unicorns you are wrong ... I would not say that because unicorns exist  

Tallo, you are the one who introduced the assertion that atheism was the determining factor behind the genocidal atrocities of some regimes, yet when challenged to provide any argument, or evidence to support that contention, you instead revert to obsessing about trivialities.

Do you accept that your contention has no basis in fact, or do you wish to defend that claim.

As they say in the classics, it may be time to "put up, or shut up".

Evasion and diversion will naturally be considered as you deciding to fly the white flag, instead of defending your idea.

tallowood wrote on Apr 16^th, 2009 at 10:09pm:

Can be, although many have been killed by believers in the name of a god.

tallowood wrote on Apr 16^th, 2009 at 10:33pm:

The few monster despots of the 20th century had mass killing technology at their disposal. Despotic believers who killed or ordered the killing of as many as they could physically manage, outnumber those who did not believe in god. The Crusaders, for example, were fanatical killers for Christ... had they had modern weaponry they would probably easily have out-killed Stalin and Mao - they'd have killed everyone Jew, Muslim, Christian. The Popes with modern weapons would have levelled Protestant Europe - killed every Protestant and burnt their lands to a cinder. As it was the Popes had excommunicated entire nations and condemned every Protestant to the fires of Hell, thus in their minds condemning them on earth to whatever evil descended upon them. Their armies armies warred with Protestants for centuries in Europe. The Conquistadors in the new world were no slouches either... and Martin Luther would have happily been an Adolf Hitler given temporal power and the means for mass destruction.

Yadda wrote on Apr 17^th, 2009 at 11:12am:

Let's not continue talking at cross purposes within a word game.

If I believe that the bus will arrive in 15 minutes, I am not making a religious statement.

The verb 'to believe' does not in and of itself necessarily describe a religious conviction of the subject. In most use cases of the term it has nothing to do with religion.