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Old 11-04-2004, 08:31 PM  
CoolE
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Originally posted by papichulo
If all religion is based on the notion of personifying the human impulse for compassion, isn't atheism an invitation for the opposite since it is in opposition to religion and spirituality?

If this is the case, then everyone is just out for themselves with no regard for others. This would lead to the strong fucking up the weak.

It comes as no small surprise that many of the regimes that caused millions of deaths in the last century were nominally/practically atheist regimes--Hitler, Stalin, Mao and their small time imitators.
Your reasoning left the rails before you even finished the first sentence. "If all religion is based on the notion of personifying the human impulse for compassion..."

Try harder next time.
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