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Originally Posted by Daldolma
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kind of like saying you hate biology because of eugenics
and anyway, people hardly needed religion to go to war. the vast majority of wars have been fought for secular reasons
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I don't hate Eugenics. When the Eugenics wars happen we'll talk.
I disagree with your second point vehemently. An example: While the conquest of the Americas which nearly entirely wiped out all indigenous peoples was imperialistic in nature, every murder/rape/death from the first child Columbus raped to the conquest of Central/South America to the NE natives who's deaths were celebrated at thanksgiving, were all entirely 'justified' in the eyes of their murderers because savage peoples weren't holy.
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Originally Posted by Eliseus
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Oh I see, because people fight in the name of a God, and not in the name of Atheists God, therefore a God must not exist because if that deity believe in did, no way war would exist?
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Jihadism/Crusades/Conquistidors have nothing to do with whether or not a deity exists, I don't know why you are trying to blend the two into a single point. Humans are territorial by nature, we've evolved that way. Nobody is saying war wouldn't exist, however the world would very likely have a fraction of the suffering it did today if not for sky daddy (see: Dark Ages, Mother Theresa, etc.).
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Originally Posted by Daldolma
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dude, what fucking difference does it make? do you think the guy getting shot in the head cares why he's getting shot?
the point is that atheists are no less murderous than religious leaders. in many cases, they are even worse. you're blaming religion when the absence of religion isn't any better
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Now you are confusing causation with results. Or are you going to try to tell me that 10,000% more people on the planet and much more efficient methods of wiping people off the map have nothing to do with the higher death tolls in recent wars compared to the crusades.