• @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    111 year ago

    If you took an informed look on history, you’d realize that religious killings happen far more often and far more wide reaching than ones motivated by atheism.

    • @Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Mother fucker up there acting like he ain’t ever heard of the crusades, Spanish inquisition, Salem witch trials, or the genocide of the Buddhist population in tiabet to name a few, though the Buddhist population genocide could be argued as atheist since it was perpetrated by CCP who don’t believe in most religions.

      • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        It’s not an atheist genocide when it’s not motivated by atheism. People can follow more than one doctrine. An ultra nationalist can go to church but an attack on foreigners would be a nationalist motive and not a Christian one.

        • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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          11 year ago

          It’s not an atheist genocide when it’s not motivated by atheism.

          How would you define “motivated by atheism” here?

          • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            The desire to wipe out religious people in general and that was not a big thing in history. What’s more common is the desire to wipe out “heretics”.

        • @Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Oh no I quite have, no where did I say people wont find ways to kill each other. But religion isn’t the bloodless doctrine it portrays itself to be. But since you mentioned the Holocaust it is arguable that was a religious motivated event as people saw Hitler as a infallible god. Nazi ism was their religion and nazis even messed with the occult.

      • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        Which atheist mass killings were there? Racist killings by someone who happened to be an atheist don’t count because the religion was not the driving force in those cases.