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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
But that's nonsense, as there is nothing about atheism that prevents people from believing in souls or that dictates that you have to view humans as biological units.
Again you're acting like humans are uninquisitive robots. That atheism is merely the lack of belief in God and it has no other side effects. That's a dodge, to me.
We try to understand and model the world. It's just what humans do. It's how religion got started. If you start from atheism, or if you take out God, you come to a different understanding and modeling than if you start from theism. One of those understandings tends to be materialism, the belief that we're no more than biological robots and that there is no grand meaning or purpose. From that comes genocide, the deification of ideologies (like communism), and so on. You can deny it, but there's a causal link.
Let me give you an analogy, If you start from the view that one race is superior to another, if you belief the evidence shows that, you more easily get to discrimination or even genocide. There is NOTHING in the belief of the superiority of one race over another that leads to either discrimination or genocide. They're not linked at all. Yet the negative practical outcomes do tend to be linked to that particular belief.
And so it is for atheism and its poisonous offshoots like atheistic communism or purely biology-based psychiatry (which locked up gays and forced them into chemical castration).
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Congratulations on proving Godwin's law in one reply.
1. I didn't prove it, I provided a data point
2. It would be impossible to do it in two replies.
Last edited by ToothSayer; 07-13-2017 at 06:46 AM.