LittleNipper
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1. Atheism is responsible for more deaths and destruction than Judaism or Christianity
Fascism and communism were atheist ideologies that murdered more than 150 million people in the 20th Century alone.
Communist and other godless regimes have continued to kill hundreds of thousands since. Add millions of rapes, tortures and enslavement by these same godless regimes
The atheistās favorite āgo toā accusation against Christianity includes the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials and the church pedophilia scandal. However, even assuming that all such wrongs occurred as a direct result of church doctrine (though it didn't), the numbers dwarf in comparison to that of atheism.
The Crusades involved the deaths of approximately 1.5 million people. Most of them were soldiers on both sides, as well as people who died of disease and other peripheral causes. The Inquisition resulted in less than 5,000 deaths over a span of approximately 300 years. The Salem Witch Trials spanned just four months, resulting in a total of 19 killed.
There are other so-called ākillingsā that occurred as a result of religious fervor (the French Religious Wars, the 30 Years War, and so forth), but even adding all those up, one would not reach 10% of the numbers of deaths that godless regimes have inflicted.
To say that āreligion has caused more death than anything elseā has no basis in fact.
2. Hitler was not a Christian
Atheists routinely urge that the Nazis were Christian, invoking Christianity to justify their horrors. This is false.
Nazism and fascism never held themselves out as Christian enterprises. More particularly, Hitler himself privately despised Christianity. He saw Christianity as āmeekā and āflabbyā and sought to destroy it āroot and branchā. He bemoaned that Germany was āstuckā with āfeeble mindedā Christianity and he preferred other āstrong-armā systems.
Hitlerās writings and speeches are full of passages contemptuous for Christianity.
3. Atheism is an ideology
The most common argument is that atheism is not an ideology; it merely reflects the absence of faith in religion. They just donāt believe in God. However, it turns out they donāt want to leave you alone ----- not even on this website. On social media most atheists are relentlessly vocal about their contempt for Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism, for their beliefs. They believe these religions disrupt advancement. They argue with great passion that weād be better off if we just eradicated God once and for all. Godless regimes have always sought the eradication of God with passionate zeal, deadly efficiency on a mass scale, and unspeakable cruelty.
Such thinking is an ideology. Such ānon-beliefā has devastating consequences. Not believing in God is like not believing in seat belts. Or better yet: itās like not believing in the police, the judiciary, medicine or fire stations. You donāt have to believe in them, but living in a world without them has consequences.
4. People of faith are responsible for a huge amount of good in our society
Atheists donāt give credit for what the Church and Judaism have done for civilization: the creation of our notions of justice, the hospital system, the university, public schools, charity, progress, truth and freedom itself.
Who fought against and ultimately destroyed the evils of slavery? The Christians and Jews. Who were the only ones who fought against the horrors of eugenics (forced sterilization of those the state deemed inferior), and Chinaās horrific āone childā policy? The Christians and Jews.
5. Judaism and Christianity created civilization
A world centered around God has allowed us to pursue the great blessings of God: beauty, justice, truth and freedom itself. Such things mean nothing without Godās presence.
Atheists may enjoy such values, and even benefit from them, but they are sponging off of what others have built. There is no real reason to pursue any of these values without a sense of purpose. Purpose itself is meaningless without God.
Without God, there is no reason to have children, or to hope for the continuation of our family name or our values. There is no reason to die for our country, or for freedom. After all, whatās the point? In a world without God, we need only do what the animals do: mate, eat, and make sure not to be eaten. We need only live for today.
This is contrary to the notion of ācivilizationā. By definition, civilization contemplates a future that is better than our present, and we derive lessons from history to that end. Civilization does not mean we just have a good time on the planet while we are here; civilization means we seek a better vision for our collective future. We know this instinctively, but many never quite incorporate it into their worldview.
Fascism and communism were atheist ideologies that murdered more than 150 million people in the 20th Century alone.
Communist and other godless regimes have continued to kill hundreds of thousands since. Add millions of rapes, tortures and enslavement by these same godless regimes
The atheistās favorite āgo toā accusation against Christianity includes the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials and the church pedophilia scandal. However, even assuming that all such wrongs occurred as a direct result of church doctrine (though it didn't), the numbers dwarf in comparison to that of atheism.
The Crusades involved the deaths of approximately 1.5 million people. Most of them were soldiers on both sides, as well as people who died of disease and other peripheral causes. The Inquisition resulted in less than 5,000 deaths over a span of approximately 300 years. The Salem Witch Trials spanned just four months, resulting in a total of 19 killed.
There are other so-called ākillingsā that occurred as a result of religious fervor (the French Religious Wars, the 30 Years War, and so forth), but even adding all those up, one would not reach 10% of the numbers of deaths that godless regimes have inflicted.
To say that āreligion has caused more death than anything elseā has no basis in fact.
2. Hitler was not a Christian
Atheists routinely urge that the Nazis were Christian, invoking Christianity to justify their horrors. This is false.
Nazism and fascism never held themselves out as Christian enterprises. More particularly, Hitler himself privately despised Christianity. He saw Christianity as āmeekā and āflabbyā and sought to destroy it āroot and branchā. He bemoaned that Germany was āstuckā with āfeeble mindedā Christianity and he preferred other āstrong-armā systems.
Hitlerās writings and speeches are full of passages contemptuous for Christianity.
3. Atheism is an ideology
The most common argument is that atheism is not an ideology; it merely reflects the absence of faith in religion. They just donāt believe in God. However, it turns out they donāt want to leave you alone ----- not even on this website. On social media most atheists are relentlessly vocal about their contempt for Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism, for their beliefs. They believe these religions disrupt advancement. They argue with great passion that weād be better off if we just eradicated God once and for all. Godless regimes have always sought the eradication of God with passionate zeal, deadly efficiency on a mass scale, and unspeakable cruelty.
Such thinking is an ideology. Such ānon-beliefā has devastating consequences. Not believing in God is like not believing in seat belts. Or better yet: itās like not believing in the police, the judiciary, medicine or fire stations. You donāt have to believe in them, but living in a world without them has consequences.
4. People of faith are responsible for a huge amount of good in our society
Atheists donāt give credit for what the Church and Judaism have done for civilization: the creation of our notions of justice, the hospital system, the university, public schools, charity, progress, truth and freedom itself.
Who fought against and ultimately destroyed the evils of slavery? The Christians and Jews. Who were the only ones who fought against the horrors of eugenics (forced sterilization of those the state deemed inferior), and Chinaās horrific āone childā policy? The Christians and Jews.
5. Judaism and Christianity created civilization
A world centered around God has allowed us to pursue the great blessings of God: beauty, justice, truth and freedom itself. Such things mean nothing without Godās presence.
Atheists may enjoy such values, and even benefit from them, but they are sponging off of what others have built. There is no real reason to pursue any of these values without a sense of purpose. Purpose itself is meaningless without God.
Without God, there is no reason to have children, or to hope for the continuation of our family name or our values. There is no reason to die for our country, or for freedom. After all, whatās the point? In a world without God, we need only do what the animals do: mate, eat, and make sure not to be eaten. We need only live for today.
This is contrary to the notion of ācivilizationā. By definition, civilization contemplates a future that is better than our present, and we derive lessons from history to that end. Civilization does not mean we just have a good time on the planet while we are here; civilization means we seek a better vision for our collective future. We know this instinctively, but many never quite incorporate it into their worldview.