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Originally posted by enchantress62
Remember your history, and do some research. Christianity came along some 3000 years after Hinduism, and 2000 years after Buhdism, these are only 2 examples, and that's not to mention the Pagan religions that predate even those. Christianity was born out of a group of men's desire to opress and exploit the tribal ppl of it's day. There is doccumented evidence of this, and if you research instead of blindly following what you are told to believe, you will see that from it's beginning, Christianity was made up and carried out by men who wanted to exploit the land and it's ppl, steal what others would not give freely, and opress anyone who would oppose it's beliefs. I'm sorry my friend, but that is EVIL! Want to be in a position to defend your Christian beliefs to the rest of us, then catch up, get your nose out of the Bible and read another book, I think you'll find that there are many antient writings that will answer more questions for you then you'll ever find in the Bible.
We know men *and women*do bad things, but let's not let them use the cover of religion and 'sacred' beliefs to protect and justify those things..
Everyone, atheists and theists, should have been outraged with President Bush's "god told me to invade Iraq", as they should be when other extremists resort to religion to promote and justify their actions. Were you?
There's no excuses and justification in my post, I'm only telling it how I see it. And I never said atheists just for being atheists never do any evil or intolerance, so why should I be making up excuses?
Your analogy isn't valid in my opinion, because first of all, Nazi Germany wasn't an atheist state, and secondly, the Nazis didn't do what they did because they were atheists. They didn't use atheism as a justification to do the things they did.
I'm not against religion, I'm against religion being used as cover for intolerance, atrocities, injustice, discrimination, and everything else we as a society should fight against. You and other 'believers' should also be outraged by this, and I think since you're an intelligent and impartial person, you are.
Of course that as being an atheist I can't help but scoff at any attempt of passing religion as if it was a seal for righteousness
Originally posted by WraothAscendant
But unless I have you confused with someone else or weren't you maintaining religion was evil and needed to go?