Your list is not of specifically atheist regimes only (especially not on a thread in which the OP is attempting to deny the existence of atheism altogether on the grounds that people often harbor irrational superstitions and spiritual beliefs)
WOW 2,325,000 deaths and ongoing. A truly terrible state of affairs.
Usually you put more thought into your responses.
The proven bad track record on multiple levels of state atheism has been a major stumbling block in providing a vast array of examples to draw from. You will be hard pressed to find even one example where it didn't turn out to be a wall to wall jar of shit.
When it reaches the point of bayoneting the infants of religious people, I guess they are taking that political elimination down to a pretty grass roots level.
Instead they use words like traitor, dissentor, nonconformist, etc
Ummm ... even you backed away to the more defensible "all sorts of people do bad things", what to speak of others even half versed in modern history.
Given that even you changed your mind several posts later, it could be a long wait
On the contrary, that has been everyone else's position. Your position is (or rather, was, at least until it dawned on you how stupid it was)...
So i guess this means we are now officially moving into the "true Scotsman" part of the discussion.
It was for the edification of our resident scholar and gentleman, Write4U, who made this statement a few pages back :
Well I can understand why you don't call yourself Read4U.
Yes indeed, there is a great difference in meaning of those terms, don't you agree?
Look in the mirror.
So what tenets of faith within atheism do you think one must abandon in order to be branded an "apostate" by an atheist?
Or alternatively, read what people post. I already explained the nature of "high performance/low incidence" of state atheism in the body you responded to.
The USA has state atheism, doesn't it? The term "separation of church and state" gets bandied around a lot.
Again you reveal your sloppy reading . I quoted that link in my post #1147.
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I agree and after a cursory search there seems to be a myriad of depictions of God as a clothed male human. Some of them can be found here;
But it has nothing in particular to do with atheists persecuting theists for being theists. Hence my query.
How convenient that you left out some of the more minor wars, like the Crusades. It's almost like you had to carefully pick your timescale to prove your point.
It waa more of a cursory history lesson for W4U. Practically all historical instances of State Atheism result in outstanding performance in the field of genocide of not just theists, but also a whole host of other classes and creeds. This isn't to say theists simply got caught up in the turmoil and madness. Part of the ideology is a very soecific condemnation and persecution of anyone religious.
If you think the statistics are an assimilation of war dead, you were not paying attention.
You could say such an arrangement gives the opportunity for atheism to flourish under certain conditions ... but I think you would be hard pressed to explain it as developing from atheist core values.
I think its the nature of political/management systems that they have to be constantly revisited in order to be healthy. Regimes are not particularly famous for their ability to receive feedback
Perhaps slightly better than State Atheist Regimes, simply because the inclination to "reinvent the wheel" with social engineering in several year leap plans (which inevitably seem to leads to millions of people dying like flies), etc is not so prominent