Agnostics/Atheists are a fast growing demographic - this is good

No it didn't. You just made that up.

 

I'd say the victims could be forgiven for being oblivious to the distinction between that and run of the mill mass murder. How about you?

Oh sure, just a big accident that killed 60 million people.

 

Agnostics I'm fine with - atheism is a religion of nihilism I despise. And who cares if they're temporarily growing? There's much more important things to talk about.

 

Did somebody mention the word "AMORAL" and was that person one who voted for the most AMORAL person in American political history?

1973:
'No Vacancies' for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html

Trump Hired Undocumented Immigrants for $4 An Hour
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-undocumented-immigrants-tower-demolish-724845

Electrical Contractor Suing Trump for Unpaid $2 Million Bill
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ing-trump-hotel-2-million-unpaid-bill-n712131

Trump: Grab 'em by the pu$$y
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html

 

Stalin and Mao killed 50 million Americans. Did that come from a Trump tweet?

 

The good that comes from being an athiest is they cannot discriminate or persecute based on religion.

 

Yes, they tend to persecute others, as seen in atheistic countries like the old USSR. They just go after those that do not buy into the system they have created. Not that much different from religion. Just different reasons to persecute.

 

They were convicted of forgetting to take a voter ID card to Kroger for grocery shopping... and summarily executed for the heinous crime.

 

do you not find it embarrassing making comments on politcal systems when you know so little? ...stalins purges had nothing to do with being an atheist...

white "christian" americans persecuted people of color for generations is that common to "christian" countries or just "white christian americans"?...s

ee what I did there? ...most likely not....

 

Let's take a look at two typical American towns in "flyover land"

Crossville TN is more religious than Chesapeake VA
https://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/chesapeake_va/crossville_tn/religion

But look at the crime statistics...
https://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/chesapeake_va/crossville_tn/crime
The crime rate in the more religious town dwarfs the less religious other.

 

No. But one cannot be a communist without being an atheist.

 

I'm sure there have been Communists that were not atheists.

 

It's also a pagan, European religion.

 

2 Esdras 6:54-59

54 And after these, Adam also, whom thou madest lord of all thy creatures: of him come we all, and the people also whom thou hast chosen.
55 All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes (Israel)
56 As for the other people, which also come of Adam, thou hast said that they are nothing, but be like unto spittle: and hast likened the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a vessel

 

Nah they were buying beer. Oh wait, the new Stalin doesn't drink.

 

when you don't have an point it's best not to say anything....this topic is beyond you...

 

A truly idiotic post.

Face it ... secular governments kill exponentially more people than religions do.

 

Societies today that are the most religious have the highest violent crime rates, while those societies in which faith and church attendance are the lowest — the most secular societies — tend to have the lowest.

The most secular societies today include Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Czech Republic, Estonia, Japan, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Hungary, Belgium.

The most religious societies include Nigeria, Uganda, the Philippines, Pakistan, Morocco, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, El Salvador, Colombia, Senegal, Malawi, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru, Jordan, Algeria, Ghana, Venezuela.

The highly secular countries tend to fare the best in terms of crime rates, prosperity, equality, freedom, democracy, women's rights, human rights, educational attainment and life expectancy.

GAME-SET-MATCH

 

this magaland facts are not accepted here...

 

Unless you're trying to say they kill because they lack religion, it's kind of meaningless. With the rise of secular governments, there was an unrelated rise in the number of people available to kill, and more effective means of killing them. If Charlemagne had modern powers, he would have converted or killed every person on earth.

 

I know plenty of religious folks that also believe in complete separation of church and state.

However unless every politician is non-religious, there will never be a complete and total divide.

 

I’m saying we have more to be scared about from secular governments (Russia, China, NK) than from the Lutherans and Presbyterians.

Other than the zealots in Iran, religious people around the world are fairly well behaved.

 

Religion is just one of many faith-based isms. The enemy of logic and morality is faith. Faith is necessary for religion, but nationalism, or a faith-based worship of ones country, is a more common modern culprit for atrocities. Both nationalism and religions are used to deny the enemy their humanity, and to deny the value of ones own life, both useful tools for the powerful to get those who actually don't have much to gain, to take great risks and commit horrible deeds.

 

Did you ever notice how much a steeple looks just like a giant dunce cap? Just sayin'

 

It makes us less then what we were and I feel sorry for those that lack faith or worse lose their faith. What a lonely world they live in believing that all they are will die and be forgotten after a few generations.