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Originally posted by Muckster
how can any studies from either side be seen as un-biased when said studies are not promoting their own beliefs so much as trying to undermine their rivals?
Saying the truth is not "talking down to others"
Obviously you don't know much about Communism
Not true? really?... and tell us what does it mean that "peace is the ABSENCE OF OPPOSITION to Socialism"?.... Anyone, and everyone who opposes Socialism must be fought
..... I see, so writing/speaking against INDOCTRINATION is being a moral absolutist.... riiiiight......
You seem to think that forcing people to accept Socialism is a good thing.
Since it seems that you agree with Marx of being a warmonger and making people accept Socialism by force is the only way to have peace, it seems obvious that you lack some morality....
By your own admission, and responses, yes YOU do....
....Marx was an atheist, Engels, was an atheist, Lenin, Stalin, and every Communist dictator, and or philosopher has been an atheist...
Yes it has, when people don't believe they have eternal souls/spirits they think they can get away with anything in this life, as long as the law doesn't catch them. I am not saying every atheist is like that, but they are more prone to think this way.
Originally posted by traditionaldrummer
No, history indicates precisely the opposite: that religiosity is the source of far more deaths than atheism.
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Originally posted by jagdflieger
Right away I see a problem here because he is not counting or considering any religious belief of the entire population.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Sorry but again you are wrong. I gave evidence from a Phd who gathered as many facts as possible about the murders caused by Communism...and Communism is an ATHEIST belief...
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Atheists believe that we are only biological beings, and that there is nothing after death.
Originally posted by jagdflieger
reply to post by traditionaldrummer
These figures are based on studies within a country (i. e. Japan, Norway, etc.). The numbers computed are on a country by country basis (in short when I say 65% for Japan, that is the figure for that particular country. And 65% is not a "few unaccounted outliers", it is more than half the population.
Originally posted by bigbert81
I see it differently than you do, that does not make me ignorant. Blinded with cynicism...
Originally posted by bigbert81
If you cannot see it past 'DESTROY ALL THAT OPPOSE', than I gave you too much credit. Please try looking from a different perspective. Marx believed socialism to be a peaceful way, and reaching it through a 'perpetual revolution' was necessary to have it.
Originally posted by bigbert81
No, not in the slightest. Please reread my posts from a different perspective. You are way, way, way off here.