infrabenji
Active Member
Atheism is a position one holds. A lack of belief in God or Gods. It’s inherently benign. If anything is coupled with many other ideologies, propagandas, moral and economic disparities et al. It can be used to radicalize people while absolving them of any moral imperative. Atheism has only been recently used in conjunction with political regimes. Atheism is more the focal point for American Christians as a result of McCarthys red scare. Unlike Atheism religious texts and practices have been used as a tools of political regimes for thousands of years. Religious texts are also self contained regimes, definitionally “a system or planned way of doing things. One imposed from above.” Religious texts have within them all the components used by so called “Atheist regimes”, including and most prevalent, the moral absolutism needed to commit atrocities and think it is the work of god. This has been demonstrated time and again. Religion and atheism cannot be categorized together in this way. This is a false dichotomy. Atheism is simply a lack of belief in a god or gods and is prima facie innocuous. Religion, as demonstrated, is obviously much more than that. Thought’s?