tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778769980042102612.post8103160053198599263..comments2023-11-08T23:43:26.075-05:00Comments on Everything and more: Atheist statemakitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16946226160704777285noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778769980042102612.post-73620911548629194082008-08-04T11:22:00.000-04:002008-08-04T11:22:00.000-04:00andrew, i find it ironic that you choose as your r...andrew, i find it ironic that you choose as your representative evil atheist government the example of china and tibet. you claim that the chinese are enforcing atheism on the people of tibet. you are referring to the suppression of tibetan buddhism, but buddhism is, essentially, an atheist faith. so, you are arguing the wrong point. the government of china is doing harm to the culture of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778769980042102612.post-62928322993985948052008-08-04T11:18:00.000-04:002008-08-04T11:18:00.000-04:00andrew,I disagree. For a few people to kill millio...andrew,<BR/>I disagree. For a few people to kill millions at one swipe, that takes evil people misusing the knowledge obtained through science.<BR/><BR/>And as for governments, I still maintain there is nothing inherent about atheists that would result in bad regimes.<BR/><BR/>States with religious-based regimes are responsible for a fair share of mass murder. You can't put that on secular/makitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16946226160704777285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778769980042102612.post-60839508350922861232008-08-03T15:52:00.000-04:002008-08-03T15:52:00.000-04:00Maktia, I appreciate your response but I didn't sa...Maktia, I appreciate your response but I didn't say that atheism guarantees evilness.<BR/><BR/>My point was about atheistic states, and their unequaled record of mass murder. Its going on as we speak. According to Amnesty International, the Chinese are enforcing atheism on the Tibetans in an attempt to destory their cultural identity.<BR/><BR/>After all, when the official positon is that there Emanuel Goldsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02653303041185240250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778769980042102612.post-42730547690887767462008-08-03T15:47:00.000-04:002008-08-03T15:47:00.000-04:00And remember, Johnny, for a few people to kill mil...And remember, Johnny, for a few people to kill millions at one swipe, that takes SCIENCE.<BR/><BR/>After all, Dawkins assures us most scientists are atheists, and yet they have provided nuclear weapons to those with the means to pay.<BR/><BR/>If you put guns, for example, in the hands of waring groups, you are complicit, so its time to end the fiction that Science can be separated from its Emanuel Goldsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02653303041185240250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778769980042102612.post-43162538961176732332008-08-03T15:34:00.000-04:002008-08-03T15:34:00.000-04:00"Good people will do good things and bad people wi..."Good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things, but to get good people to do bad things, it takes religion." (Or something close to that. I don't recall the author of this quotation).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com