Christians are 'most persecuted group'
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Anonymous
SOME atheists are very dogmatic. YOU might not be, but some are. |
Anonymous
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From the Wikipedia article:
The USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–1928) was a campaign of anti-religious persecution against churches and believers by the Soviet government following the initial anti-religious campaign during the Russian Civil War. The elimination of most religion and its replacement with deism, agnosticism and atheism supported with a materialist world view was a fundamental ideological goal of the state.[1][2] To this end the state conducted anti-religious persecutions against believers that were meant to hurt and destroy religion. It was never made illegal to be a believer or to have religion, and so the activities of this campaign were often veiled under other pretexts (usually resistance to the regime) that the state invoked or invented in order to justify its activities. Also read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-religious_campaign_during_the_Russian_Civil_War |
Anonymous
Maybe YOU are one of the peaceful lovely atheists. But just like there are different kinds of Christianity, there are different kinds of atheism. Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_atheism In the philosophy of Marxism, Marxist–Leninist atheism (also Marxist–Leninist scientific atheism) is the irreligious and anti-clerical element of Marxism–Leninism, the official state ideology of the Soviet Union.[1] Based upon a dialectical-materialist understanding of humanity's place in Nature, Marxist–Leninist atheism proposes that religion is the opium of the people, meant to promote a person's passive acceptance of his and her poverty and exploitation as the normal way of human life on Earth in the hope of a spiritual reward after death; thus, Marxism–Leninism advocates atheism, rather than religious belief.[2][3][4] To support those ideological premises, Marxist–Leninist atheism explains the origin of religion and explains methods for the scientific criticism of religion.[5] The philosophic roots of materialist atheism are in the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) and of Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872), of Karl Marx (1818–1883) and of Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924).[6] Moreover, unlike Soviet Marxism, other varieties of Marxist philosophy are not anti-religious, such as the Liberation theology developed by Latin American Marxists. |
Anonymous
Did you not figure out that you could click on the bolded?! Or are you just trying to mislead everyone? |
Anonymous
Ummm, o. There are not different kinds of atheism. You either believe in a god or you don’t. Everything else is extraneous. |
Anonymous
| Marxism Leninism did advocate atheism, but the reason for it was the death of the imperial family. The Orthodox church saw the tsar as the legal pope, king. This did not fit well with the new crooks |
Anonymous
Did you not figure out that you posted the wrong link - or were you trying to mislead everyone? "The bolded" found within the posted, incorrect link, for those patient or interested enough to find, has an opening paragrapgh that says this: "The USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–1928) was a campaign of anti-religious persecution against churches and believers by the Soviet government following the initial anti-religious campaign during the Russian Civil War. The elimination of most religion and its replacement with deism, agnosticism and atheism supported with a materialist world view was a fundamental ideological goal of the state.[1][2] To this end the state conducted anti-religious persecutions against believers that were meant to hurt and destroy religion. It was never made illegal to be a believer or to have religion, and so the activities of this campaign were often veiled under other pretexts (usually resistance to the regime) that the state invoked or invented in order to justify its activities." The bolded section makes clear that replacing religion with non-belief or deism was a goal of the state -- and was not specifically atheism, but rather a "materialistic world view" |
Anonymous
No, atheists may vary, in terms of personality, but there are not different types of atheism. It's a simple word that means non-belief in god. |
Anonymous
That's a personality issue. Some Christians, or Jews, or Buddhists, or whatever -- are dogmatic too. |
Anonymous
Also, there is no dogma in atheism because it's not a religion -- there's literally nothing to be dogmatic about. People can be vocal atheists or firm atheists, but there's no dogma to be dogmatic about. |
Anonymous
Atheism was explicitly one of the goals. There were parts of the USSR where a softer deism was allowed. A materialist world view can and generally does include atheism. |
Anonymous
Actually there can be. Some atheism aggressively rejects superstition and the supernatural of any kind while others are more limited. |
Anonymous
That was one of the reasons, but Marx advocated atheism everywhere, not just Russia. |
Anonymous
I don't know how many times this can be pointed out to be wrong yet still so stubbornly misunderstood. An Atheist is simply someone who does not hold a belief in a god or gods. That's it. Nothing more. It's binary. Like someone being "pregnant" or "a-pregnant" 
Now if you said "Some atheISTS aggressively reject(s) superstition and the supernatural of any kind" that could be true. But as another poster correctly pointed out, there is no dogma in atheism. |
Anonymous
I see no evidence of that |