Anonymous wrote:What atheist group committed atrocities in the name of atheism?

My point, for the third time, is that religiosity leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

I wrote above, “Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.”

I wrote it is this vulnerability and exploitation that makes some people resent religion. I don’t know how this is refutable or what you think you’re arguing against.

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Anonymous wrote:What atheist group committed atrocities in the name of atheism?

My point, for the third time, is that religiosity leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

I wrote above, “Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.”

I wrote it is this vulnerability and exploitation that makes some people resent religion. I don’t know how this is refutable or what you think you’re arguing against.

Seriously? Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and that's just for starters. Ever heard of them? Each of these targeted the people of faith within their countries.

And that's before we get to your semantics games about how an atheist regime isn't killing people "in the name of atheism" exactly, it's just killing people for something something....

Anonymous wrote:What atheist group committed atrocities in the name of atheism?

My point, for the third time, is that religiosity leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

I wrote above, “Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.”

I wrote it is this vulnerability and exploitation that makes some people resent religion. I don’t know how this is refutable or what you think you’re arguing against.

Anonymous wrote:What atheist group committed atrocities in the name of atheism?

My point, for the third time, is that religiosity leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

I wrote above, “Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.”

I wrote it is this vulnerability and exploitation that makes some people resent religion. I don’t know how this is refutable or what you think you’re arguing against.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the LRA is Christian either. The group was funded by Sudan to wreak havoc and adherents were manipulated to commit atrocities because of their faith and fear of reprisals. The point stands that religion makes it easy to manipulate people for money, power, and politics, and this is why non-believers have such resentment towards religion. There are examples from every group and ethnicity.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why people come to the religion forum to bash religion. Extremely upsetting indeed.

People come to the religion forum and bash Christians and Christianity.

The men who killed the children were Muslim.

Don’t worry. People who bash religion are not targeting Christian faith alone. the majority of people who visit this site are at least culturally Christian so the conversation shifts in that direction. They think believers are vulnerable populations susceptible to manipulation. Proof of that susceptibility is, for example, belief in the religious teaching that everyone is born with original sin because a woman ate an apple, necessitating the need for a god in human form to die on a cross to relieve us of all of our sins, as long as we believe in Him.

Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.

Have you heard of the Christian extremist Lord’s resistance army in Uganda? They killed and abducted a couple hundred thousand and displaced millions. No religion has their hands clean. The men who killed the children in your post are Muslim in the same way that members of the LRA are Christian.

What Christian denomination did the LRA belong to?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why people come to the religion forum to bash religion. Extremely upsetting indeed.

People come to the religion forum and bash Christians and Christianity.

The men who killed the children were Muslim.

Don’t worry. People who bash religion are not targeting Christian faith alone. the majority of people who visit this site are at least culturally Christian so the conversation shifts in that direction. They think believers are vulnerable populations susceptible to manipulation. Proof of that susceptibility is, for example, belief in the religious teaching that everyone is born with original sin because a woman ate an apple, necessitating the need for a god in human form to die on a cross to relieve us of all of our sins, as long as we believe in Him.

Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.

Have you heard of the Christian extremist Lord’s resistance army in Uganda? They killed and abducted a couple hundred thousand and displaced millions. No religion has their hands clean. The men who killed the children in your post are Muslim in the same way that members of the LRA are Christian.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why people come to the religion forum to bash religion. Extremely upsetting indeed.

People come to the religion forum and bash Christians and Christianity.

The men who killed the children were Muslim.

Anonymous wrote:This is why people come to the religion forum to bash religion. Extremely upsetting indeed.