I couldn't care less about your views on religion, or about what you believe in. I'm not saying you should believe God is a fact just because you can't prove He doesn't exist, but I don't really have to prove anything to you in order to believe he exists. And I don't laugh at people who don't believe the same things I believe in, it is actually the contrary, I respect them (and by the way, I never really said what I believe in). My problem is with stupid people who use stupid fallacies, misinformation, and intentional distortions of facts in order to diminish someone's way of living, or someone's opposing argument. You are another example of this when you use this stupid arugment:
"Name one religion that has not had any atrocity carried out in its name or the name of its particular god".
That argument makes no sense whatsoever. The exact same can be said about atheism. Just take a look at dictatorships such as Stalin’s or socialist Albania's. The atheist reply is always: "oh, people like that did it for power, not because they were atheists", but that response is completely ignorant and based on your positive bias towards atheism, not real historical information. You are just claiming that their atheism isn't to blame because that's convinient for you, but no historian will agree with you that Stalin didn't believe in the ideology he was promoting. The fact is that their atheism and bias against religion were the principal motor behind their religious persecutions and you can't spin this fact, as much as you try. So if you want to say anything about how religious people have commited awful acts in the name of their god, do it starting from the fact that despicable acts have also been commited in the "name" of atheism. Don't try to hide the fact under a number of dumb excuses and distortions, because if you start to say dumb sh*** like "oh, but that doesn't count because, because, because they weren't real atheists", then I'll know what kind of person I'm arguing with (the kind that is too biased to have a worthy discussion with).
In fact, the exact same stupid argument can be used against anything. White people have commited atrocious acts in the name of the white race, so should we condemn all white people? Is white race one of the most heinous characteristics of evolution just because lots of people throughout history have commited atrocious acts based on their belief in white superiority?
I think it is extremely stupid, to the point where it is unbelievable, how some people carry the atheist banner as if it was something to be proud of. It's gotten to the incredibly ridiculous point where they are even willing to distort historical facts just to make it look as if an atheist could make no wrong.
"Religion is one of man's greatest or most heinous inventions ever".
I think man's most heinous enemy is his own inability to understand that others are simply different. When people claim that religion should be abolished they are not being part of the solution, they are part of the problem. The solution is not to force everyone to think the way you do, the solution is to accept and respect the fact that others simply don't think the way you do, or live the way you do. I'm not intolerant towards atheism, I'm intolerant towards intolerance, and in my experience no one is more intolerant that internet atheists who believe they have a crusade against religion.
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