100% agree.

Hijacking the top comment to suggest everyone read the book The Dark Side of Christian History by Ellerbe. It's really good. It's super short but does a great job highlighting how at every point in the Church's history, whenever they had to make a decision, they always followed whichever direction led to more political and social power for the church at the expense of spiritual enlightenment, justice, truth (obviously), or human lives.

I read 1984 at the end of last year and man it's crazy how much Orwell basically described life under the Church during the Dark/Middle Ages at the height of it's political power.

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What atrocities have mainstream Buddhists participated in? I know there have been Buddhist terror groups but it really doesn't seem like the norm. Aggressive and greedy people use religion as a tool, some religions are more likely to engage in violence than others though.

Do you mean anti-theism? If you're talking about people that actively oppose religion. Atheism is simply a lack of belief in theism.

I'm also not sure how communism relates either, unless you're talking about secular societies that were communist and committed atrocities, such as Soviet Russia under Stalin. In Soviet Russia the state belief was atheism, but again, in their pursuit to eliminate religion I would argue that is really anti-theism.

Whatever belief or non belief anyone has isn't the problem .... it's when those individuals want to impose this beliefs or non beliefs onto other people whether those other people want it or not.

I really don't care what other people think, that's their life. The problems start when people start thinking that they have a right to force their ideas or thoughts onto other people.

Ha! Look at this dude and his radical atheism!

Imagine an actual violent war broke out between Star Wars fans and Star Trek fans. They are bombing each other's conventions, and shooting each other in the streets. From the outside, you're just like, why are they acting like this? None of it is even real! Why can't you just let each other enjoy science fiction? Why do they have to like YOURS better?

Atheists, like all people, do have things to go to war about. Money, power, real things that are important to them, and it may be greed or love that pushes an atheist to war, but science fiction had nothing to do with it.

I'd be surprised if you had a single though about this whatsoever... Not only do you somehow link atheism, a philosophical outlook on the impossibility of godhood as described by religion, with Communism, a socio-economic model, you attribute the actions taken by dictatorial semi-socialist leaders to both.

I don't think a regular human could say something this stupid if they tried.

I didn't know France was communist country before even Marx wrote Capital.

Radical Buddhist monks in Myanmar fomented a genocide. I always point that out when someone says Buddhism is the one good religion or whatever.

Indians are committing Genocide on Muslims. Somethig something blame Islam.

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Are you forgetting the genocide commited by the ultra orthodox Spanish in South America? Have you ever been to Buenos Aires? Super long flight only to end up in the whitest European city ever. Oh and also, what about the total killings until today just by US made mines and shrapnel in Southeast Asia? Doesn't even come close to whatever number you had in mind for "Islamism".

Christianity has a Pope which can adjust Christianity to modern Times.

1. Catholicism has a Pope.

2. The current Pope is just barely progressive and he gets endless pushback from the cardinals, bishops, and even laypeople.

3. All the other flavors of Christian have other opinions.

4. Islam is in a very similar situation.

5. Both suck ass and should go away.

I mean, the post clearly states "was". So even without commenting on the accuracy of your post I can clearly see you missed the point