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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives,...?
...experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons?
If memory serves, it was not the Vatican.
@Max B (primordial ooze pie), the answer supplied in response to this is simple: When religious people do evil things, they are acting on the promptings of their faith, but when atheists do so, it has nothing to do with their atheism.
This simply does not stand up, since under Stalin much of the Orthodox priesthood was exterminated solely for being religious leaders, as were the clergy of other religions and literally hundreds of thousands of Baptists. The claim that Stalin's atheism had nothing to do with his actions in unbelievably disingenuous.
So why would anyone go to war for the sake of an absence of belief, atheism? One just has to think of the armies of the French Revolution or the Chinese invasion of Tibet to answer that question.
@hardcoreheavymetal101, in 2007, a number of scientists gathered in a conference entitled 'Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason, and Survival' in order to attack religious thought and congratulate one another on their fearlessness in doing so. The physicist Steven Weinberg delivered an address. As one of the authors of the theory of electroweak unification, the work for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize, he is a figure of great stature. "Religion," he affirmed, "is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
In speaking this, Weinberg was warmly applauded, not one member of his audience asking the question one might pertinent: Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives and so forth?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
no, but the Vatican has done a good job of keeping itself on the side of whoever has the best weapons
that doesn't mean they promote war, however, you are right about that
people always give me a thumbs down when I say that Christianity is a way of life that hasn't been tried yet, but this is a clear example of what I mean
if everyone saw everyone else as their most beloved brother, (sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, friend, etc,) we would instantly forgive them their mistakes the same way we forgive our actual brothers, et al.
we don't make war on those we love and care about, and we would not make war anymore if every person just tried it for a while, to see every other person as your most beloved brother, (or most beloved whatever) and took care of them the way we want to be taken care of
that, in a nutshell, is Christianity
- 1 decade ago
You're right. It was not the Vatican. All these nasty things originated from Western countries that rebelled against the Vatican, put themselves outside the sphere and control of the Catholic church, grew rich from expropriating what used to belong to it and enslaving other nations to propel themselves to world power status.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
No; but if memory serves the Vatican did create (or, at least, sanction) the Spanish Inquisition, who managed some really nasty things with much more primitive technology.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Society?
- Anonymous5 years ago
- Whilst assembly your in-legislation. - Cleaning the bathroom. - Running (nobody will have to EVER run at the same time bare). - Riding a horse, motorcycle or bike. - Going to the seaside (I do not know what individuals in nudist shores are considering, there are areas that sand simply will have to now not pass).
- 1 decade ago
no, it was people taught to not value life, many times because they feel this life is not the last. Many did it in the name of religion. None, not even Stalin, killed anyone in the name of atheism.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
That would be the Germans actually
- 1 decade ago
I'm not at all religious (towards monotheism) but please ...explain...?
