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Originally Posted by DougLikesBMW
False. No one has ever killed in the name of atheism.
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Sorry, I disagree with the author you quoted. Atheism may not be inherently opposed to religion as your author states, but some atheists are. For example, you. You call people that believe in religion idiots. You are opposed to religion and it shows in every post you make on the subject. You yourself are the proof you need to see that atheists that are opposed to religion exist.
That Stalin killed theists to achieve an atheist/secular state, for reasons stemming largely from the ability of religion to organize and motivate, and the potential threat that represents against the state, is in the end, still killing to achieve an atheist state. He was killing for atheism.
One more thing, atheism is not the absence of belief as your author claims. Atheism is the belief that a god does not exist.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atheism
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a·the·ism [ey-thee-iz-uhm] Show IPA
–noun
1.
the doctrine or belief that there is no god.
2.
disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings.
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Atheism is a belief. It is a belief because god cannot be disproved. That which cannot be proven by fact, is belief.