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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Both of these ideas can be discussed entirely in a theological capacity. It was theologists who came up with them, not atheists. Christian thinkers specifically have written about these ideas for hundreds of years. If you want to argue against this, then I suggest pointing out some arguments you have problems with. Maybe start with Descartes, or, at least, expand on what you mean exactly; otherwise, your "'everything' = meaninglessness" argument means little.
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I got a better idea, you explain to me the difference between saying everything is god and atheism.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
Well, I'm pretty sure that if the USSR under Stalin's rule, the People's Republic of Albania and the People's Republic of China had their way that wouldn't have been far off (Seeing as how they officially banned religion, usually persecuted those who practiced religion and, often times, tried to proprogate atheism through media and school).
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But was the rally cry around atheism? No it was socialism. You can't incite a people to murder around atheism. Atheism by nature doesn't create the same sort of out groups that religion does.
As for a current war using religion as a rally point...you aren't seriously asking this question right?