Originally Posted by hatidua
No, I don't think you fixed it. Taking religion out of the equation doesn't not take evil out of the equation.
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No, I don't think you fixed it. Taking religion out of the equation doesn't not take evil out of the equation.
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
If we removed "my make-believe god is better than your make-believe god" out of the equation, a whole lot of conflicts through the ages would have been avoided. Evil surely exists, but far too many people do bad things in the name of religion.
Hmmm ....
Joseph Stalin: atheist
Mao Tse Tung: atheist
Pol Pot: atheist
Adolf Hitler: irreligious
Seems to me a whole lot of bad people do a lot of of bad things and use whatever they want as a cover. As bad as religious wars have been historically, wars and atrocities by atheists or agnostics or NON-religious reasons have been 2 orders of magnitudes worse.
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