Mao Tse-Tung and Pol Pot killed in the name of atheism

[ronki23]

If religion is so bad, then no religion is worse as Mao killed to purge China of religion and we saw 20-70 million die under Mao's regime, the most people who died under one person's rule. Granted most deaths were starvation but 14.5 to 18.7 deaths were landowners plus up to 2 million counterrevolutionaries. The majority of Chinese art and architecture was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. I hate Mao

Pol Pot was even worse; he killed people just because they were Buddhist or Muslim but he also killed professionals (including people who worse glasses), Viets and Chinese. A quarter of Cambodia's population was killed off.

Do atheists and antitheists justify the killings of theists under Mao and Pol Pot?

@Aupmanyav @viole

 

[Kenny]

Up until now, atheists just deny that it was in the name of atheism. They blame "politics" even though they were stamping out religiions.

Flat earth syndrome in my opinion.

 

[Estro Felino]

I see...this argument is a desperate attempt to demonize atheism, but we all know that Politics is a blind force that transcends beliefs and religions.

If atheism played some role...then we have to admit that the red dragon will own the world thanks to atheism?

 

[Vinayaka]

There were other factors besides atheists stamping out religions, not that that really matters in brutality. The Chinese situation was more poor against rich, an economic uprising, and the end of feudal peasantry. I suggest Fan shen as a good read to get more insight.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Up until now, atheists just deny that it was in the name of atheism. They blame "politics" even though they were stamping out religiions.

Flat earth syndrome in my opinion.

Oh my, your beliefs are all but Flat Earth beliefs. You really need to learn how to make proper comparisons.

Did Hitler kill in the name of Christianity? He was a Christian after all.

 

[Spiderman]

Communist China was the most bloodthirsty mass murdering machine of a regime the earth has ever seen, and China didn't even get a slap on the wrist for it.

No need to mention what they did to Tibet.

Communist China killed more people than Nazis and Japanese combined, and the regime got away with it...in school I heard so much about Hitler did...Not a word was said about Mao...he is all over Chinese money and treated like a hero.. The Communist Chinese flag should make us just as sick as the swastika!
Worst Atrocities Committed by the Communist Party of China - Vision Times

 

[Father Heathen]

Hitler was a vegetarian, thus we can conclude that vegetarians are antisemites, right?

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Up until now, atheists just deny that it was in the name of atheism.

Actually, there's a reason for that ...

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Hitler was a vegetarian, thus we can conclude that vegetarians are antisemites, right?

Vegan spelled backwards in Nagev, the Israeli desert.

(Well, actually, the Israeli desert is the Negev but, given the OP, this is not likely to be one of those threads that concerns itself with facts.)​

 

[Shad]

Do atheists and antitheists justify the killings of theists under Mao and Pol Pot?

Not atheists. Anti-theists very well could considering the label
Next!

 

[Sunstone]

If religion is so bad, then no religion is worse as Mao killed to purge China of religion and we saw 20-70 million die under Mao's regime, the most people who died under one person's rule. Granted most deaths were starvation but 14.5 to 18.7 deaths were landowners plus up to 2 million counterrevolutionaries. The majority of Chinese art and architecture was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. I hate Mao

Pol Pot was even worse; he killed people just because they were Buddhist or Muslim but he also killed professionals (including people who worse glasses), Viets and Chinese. A quarter of Cambodia's population was killed off.

Do atheists and antitheists justify the killings of theists under Mao and Pol Pot?

@Aupmanyav @viole

Oh, ronki! Atheists are simply not at all interested -- for no better reason than that they are atheists -- in breaking down your door and killing you in order to seize your holy scriptures and your stack of Playboys. So take a few deep breaths. You have no reason to drum up fear of them.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Oh, ronki! Atheists are simply not at all interested in breaking down your door in order to seize your bible and your stack of Playboys. You have no reason to fear them.

How do we know that? With your personal religion you would almost surely be after my stash.

Do they still publish that magazine? Hmm.... just check.

 

[Twilight Hue]

If religion is so bad, then no religion is worse as Mao killed to purge China of religion and we saw 20-70 million die under Mao's regime, the most people who died under one person's rule. Granted most deaths were starvation but 14.5 to 18.7 deaths were landowners plus up to 2 million counterrevolutionaries. The majority of Chinese art and architecture was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. I hate Mao

Pol Pot was even worse; he killed people just because they were Buddhist or Muslim but he also killed professionals (including people who worse glasses), Viets and Chinese. A quarter of Cambodia's population was killed off.

Do atheists and antitheists justify the killings of theists under Mao and Pol Pot?

@Aupmanyav @viole

What do they do? Were they quoted as saying, "I'm going to murder everybody in the name of atheism"?

Anyways atheism isn't a religion or belief. Kind of clutching at straws here.

The word atheism itself wouldn't even have existed if it wasn't for theists.

 

[Revoltingest]

If religion is so bad, then no religion is worse as Mao killed to purge China of religion and we saw 20-70 million die under Mao's regime, the most people who died under one person's rule. Granted most deaths were starvation but 14.5 to 18.7 deaths were landowners plus up to 2 million counterrevolutionaries. The majority of Chinese art and architecture was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. I hate Mao

Pol Pot was even worse; he killed people just because they were Buddhist or Muslim but he also killed professionals (including people who worse glasses), Viets and Chinese. A quarter of Cambodia's population was killed off.

Do atheists and antitheists justify the killings of theists under Mao and Pol Pot?

@Aupmanyav @viole

Some atheists are terrible people.
But atheism itself doesn't lead to becoming murderous oppressors.
It doesn't lead anywhere....except away from churches.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Some atheists are terrible people.
But atheism itself doesn't lead to becoming murderous oppressors.
It doesn't lead anywhere....except away from churches.

But those terrible people are not real atheists

 

[Revoltingest]

But those terrible people are not real atheists

I'm sure some are.
Hey, we get to have terrible people too!

 

[columbus]

What do Mao and Pol Pot and I have in common?
Penises, that's about it.

What do Mao and Pol Pot and Muhammad and Queen Isabella have in common?
An ideology that they put above the good of humanity. A religion.
Communism became a religious ideology early on. Then, like usual, the slaughter began.
Tom

 

[Cacotopia]

Communist China was the most bloodthirsty mass murdering machine of a regime the earth has ever seen, and China didn't even get a slap on the wrist for it.

No need to mention what they did to Tibet.

Communist China killed more people than Nazis and Japanese combined, and the regime got away with it...in school I heard so much about Hitler did...Not a word was said about Mao...he is all over Chinese money and treated like a hero.. The Communist Chinese flag should make us just as sick as the swastika!
Worst Atrocities Committed by the Communist Party of China - Vision Times

Read about Ghengis Kahn before you throw a statement like that. He killed 5% of the world's population in the name of conquest.

Christian crusades: 400-500 million lives.

Islamic conquest 600-1 billion lives

Mao Tse Dong 60-80 million

Stalin: 26 million

American conquest across the frontier : 26 million

Hitler 9 million

But hitler is somehow the worst of them all.

 

[Wu Wei]

I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding here as to what Mao did and why... and atheism was not the reason for much of it...

 

[Wu Wei]

Read about Ghengis Kahn before you throw a statement like that. He killed 5% of the world's population in the name of conquest.

Should also Add Stalin to that list as well...all estimates of the number of Russians he killed are all in the millions