comment review: 05-30-09

belmont club now has a link to older posts so i have stopped cloning the posts here.

i will continue to have coment review and other thoughs posted here however.

for example...

40. no mo uro:

There has never been a benevolent regime controlled by atheists, in fact more people died violent deaths at the hands of atheist regimes in the last century than dies in all the religious conflicts in history COMBINED.

The more atheist an institution becomes, the less open and free it becomes. A prime example would be the educaction industry in the U.S., where, as the population of professors has become increasingly atheist and secular (or, at best, some anemic form of Christian), freedom of speech has declined. Another example would be postmodern Europe.

Groups of people who claim to be Christian or Jewish or Buddhist or Hindu can do and have done bad things, but they have, historically, also created enlightened and free societies. There has never been a society controlled by atheists which has done this, and I suspect there never will be one.

I can say that all - every single one - of the most intolerant people, with regard to religion, that I have met have been atheists. More so than any of the Muslims I’ve encountered, and that’s saying something. It’s been my observation more often than not that an atheist is not someone who doesn’t believe in God but rather someone who views themself as godlike.

I have added some comments of my own to the crisis of unfaith thread... i start at comment 56