[quote=luchabee]Concering the asshole response above, either “Gandy” has very poor reading comprehension skills or was crying when he/she typed it out.[/quote]
Making a response that is equivalent to his and saying he is a crybaby does not do much to make your case stronger.
So here is a question for you:
Which of these conflicts you (or your book really) mention did NOT involve religious people as a major component?
I can’t see any of these as being an indictment of atheism or anything other than a political dispute.
And the assertion that political dispute leads to death is intuitive.
Its neither revolutionary nor insightful.
Communism is primarily political and economic. The
religious component was not generally enforced very effectively (eg: Cuba and China). There were authoritarian attempts to restrict religion but none were successful in achieving this.
This is why the Pope was elevated in Poland. It was known that having a dissident in a position of religious authority gave him some level of political immunity (though certainly not complete). The importance of the solidarity movement was a huge consideration to the Vatican in their choice.
There is one movement that is conspicuously absent from the stats and the book. That is national socialism. This is a right wing movement. To my knowledge this is the only political movement in the 20th century that had atheism as a successfully (defined as near universally) adopted component.
My question is which of these major events had atheism as a major point of contention?
As far as I can tell, only WWII and that was with the atheist right wing.
The assertion that the left is somehow an atheistic death dealer does not appear a tenable one.
