Originally Posted by
Influenza
You strike me as the kind of guy to grossly inaccurately describe something and pretend that it was a no big deal generalization.
You are pretending that those enormous figures are the result of godless communists targeting the poor religious folks due to their beliefs. In reality, the vast majority of those deaths are the result of the failures of authoritarian central planning, causing many millions to starve to death. Hardly related to their stance on the existence of god.
I don't know how many times this needs to be said before Christians will understand, but atheism doesn't tell you anything about someone other than their lack of belief in god. They could be authoritarian, libertarian, whatever.
I don't think Stalin ever started wars in the name of atheism. Atheism is largely peripheral to the communist system. But many a caliph, pope, etc. have used religion as a rallying cry to start and continue bloody conflicts. People do this still today. Zionists think Israel is theirs cuz it says so in a book.
But yes, authoritarian Christians in the US are very similar to the Taliban, they just haven't attempted to violently take control of the country yet, but they do pretty well by nonviolent means.
When I said "we should or shouldn't do this" I am simply giving my opinion that it is immoral to indoctrinate children into religions, as being coerced into believing things blindly severely hampers their critical thinking skills later in life. No, I'm not suggesting that laws be put in place to prevent kids from being taught religion. Although I bet NCL will quote mine me until it looks like I'm saying just that.
But If you bring your kids up to unquestioningly believe some supernatural bs and arbitrary laws, and tell them they will go to hell if they don't, you are doing a disservice to your kids and are honestly a bad parent.
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