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Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens
 I mean, I'm not at all trying to be nasty here, but sooner or later you do have to ask yourself: How much damage and bloodshed over millenia have atheists caused compared to Christianity, Islam, or Communism (which is really basically a political religion and one in which, as Carl Jung pointed out, God was conveniently replaced by the masses)? |
I, personally, don't believe that it's a cause of religion itself, but a distortion of religion in an attempt to serve the whims of power-hungry people. Organized establishments are neither good nor evil; they are simply nothing more and nothing less than powerful tools. Whether these tools are used to help the poor and oppressed or to cause bloodshed and suffering... well, that's up to humanity, really.
Oh no, we're having a religious debate again. *cringes*