Vandalshandle
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Yet a declared Atheist state is America's largest trading partner and a major source of international investment. Just because Stalin and Mao were atheists, doesn't mean every atheist is dead set on genocide or mass murder.Atheism....do what you want to who you want....no one going to punish you in the end......I can see the appeal.....and the problem........just ask those 100 million people who got in the way of atheists in the 20th century....but since no one is going to hold them to account...I guess that's just another persons "thing"....
But the tradition is there.......and mao is still admired in a lot of circles......
I guess that I am a little confused by this post. Perhaps you are referring to the tradition of atheists killing Christians because they are Christians. Now, I can find hundreds of examples of Christian's killing the ungodly, but I have never heard of an atheist killing a Christian for being godly. Perhaps you can provide a link. And, please, no totalitarian system has made it a policy to kill Christians for being godly. They have killed those that are a danger to their regime, regardless of their religious beliefs.
But they were atheists who murdered people....regardless of the motive......they targeted everyone, not just certain groups which makes them even worse.....if they can be worse.....and yes, communists targeted religion specifically......
Communists officially discouraged religion. they did not set out to kill the religious.
As an atheist, I will take responsibility for other atheists who killed people, just as soon as you take responsibility for Christians killing IN THE NAME OF GOD, for the last 2,000 years.
Onward Christian soldiers.....