Look man, I am not religious, but religion is not the reason bad people do bad things, I am not going to say it is nessicarily an inharent part of their charicter, but there are other reasons. People will also do great feets of good in the name of religion as well. to boil it all down to religion is really an over simplification.

[–] systemguy_64@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Religion is a catch-all for beliefs, ideology, etc, and it is religion. The fight is your sky God versus my sky God. Meanwhile, it's the same fucking God.

Name a mass genocide / terrorist attack committed by atheists. And I'm talking about groups, not some neckbeard from Reddit who decided to shoot up a school.

I'll wait.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stalin wasn't religious and actively tried to stamp out religion.

He killed what, 6+ million people?

[–] systemguy_64@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think you are confusing him with the other moustached man of WW2

Stalin "only" killed 1.2 million at the high estimate. He killed people because they were in opposition rather than a certain race like Hitler.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No Stalin was an athiest and he caused mass genocide.

Google says it could be 20+ million. Anyways, how many he killed isn't the point.

He killed people because they were in opposition

Yeah he killed them for non-religious reasons. Religion didn't play a part in the mass genocide.

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