#Tim mynett wiki religion how to

My position is consistent because I don’t blame either one for the crimes of lunatics, lunatics do crazy awful things and use whatever justifications they can after the fact. If you blame the Inquisition on Christianity then you also need to blame the gulags on atheism. And Christians will say “come on Jesus was about love and forgiveness, the people who did the Inquisition obviously were just abusing his name and didn’t get what he was all about”Īll I want is consistency. I’ve heard countess Muslims claim Bin Laden isn’t “really” a muslim. The problem is that Christians, Muslims, etc. I don’t know how many times I’ve read people on this site saying “Stalin wasn’t really an atheist” or “Stalin was driven by communism and lust for power not atheism” etc. Now atheists love to use what IMO is simply the “No True Scotsman” defense. Of course on those terms Atheism wins hands down over theism. In both cases what you need to do is judge things like the logical consistency of the idea, is it supported by evidence, etc. The fact that lunatic killers like Stalin happened to be atheists doesn’t mean atheism is wrong. (There are a lot of other reasons that Christianity is wrong, just saying that isn’t one of them). So the fact that people tortured and killed a lot of people in the name of Jesus doesn’t in and of itself mean that Christianity is wrong. And that is you can’t judge an idea by how crazy people misuse it. I think there is a general point here that both sides, atheists and theists tend to miss. IE your opponents are pathetic, history-starved cretins.ĮDIT: P.S it’s my birthday and I’m suitably ‘blessed’ by saint Johnny Walker. And those cases where established religions have foundationally supported these supposed ‘athiests’ So OP, these people who like to point out villains of history as being ‘athiest’ ignore the instances in which they have deified themselves. But upon minimal research, they would be almost as red-faced as they deserve to be. The religious WISH all these assclowns of history could be packaged into the neat and frightening mystery-bracket of ‘athiest’. The late great Christopher Hitchens demonstrates this better than I could ever wish to, in several talks/debates/lectures. Too many times in history a religion is too small scale and temporary to be viewed historically as A RELIGION. Hitler had catholic churches praying for him throughout Germany on his birthday every year until the point the catholics thought “…shit”, and stopped. Russia has claimed denunciation of religion during several stages of its modern history, yet the Russian orthodox (Roman catholic “Lite”) church has been pulling strings for centuries. North Korea is a Necrocracy where a dead man is god. Make a statement to let them go back to school and study the difference between religion and government system. In fact, about 20% of 1,4 Billion China populations are Buddhist, which is more than the Christians population in the whole ENGLAND or USA. China is a communist country, and yet you will find a lot of buddhist temples inside, there are thousands of it. Make a supporting statement such as: “Cuba is a country with Communist government style, yet it’s a Catholic country”. Atheism is NOT A GOVERNMENT STYLE EITHER, because it also “relates in the discussion” about supranatural things that has greater power. religions, since all of them are related in the discussion about supranatural things that has greater power), they are NOT A GOVERNMENT STYLE. On the other hand, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Scientology, Mormonism belief system (aka.

#Tim mynett wiki religion how to

These government style are related in the discussion of how to manage a country.ī.

Kingdom or Monarchy is also a government style.

Make a statement that says “Government style is NOT THE SAME as belief system” Communism is a government style. But I found a very simple way to counter it by keep it simple.Ī. Why? because these religious nuts are not educated person, they are only parrots without critical thinking skills. Yes, I met those type argument from religious people.Īnd the more we try to explain, the more it gets worse.