Reading Time: 8 minutes The California state investigation into racial bias in healthcare only scratches the surface of a deeply-ingrained system.
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Posted inEthics and Morality, Politics, The Secular
Atheist Answers: A Return to “Atheist Dictators Committed Atrocities”
Reading Time: < 1 minute I recently wrote a post on supposed atheist atrocities being worse than Christian ones, as argued often by naive apologists. One commenter made a video that should be interesting for you (Derek Mathias – Underlings). It’s not about atheism vs. theism per se, but about authoritarians having to be the highest power: He made a follow-up […]
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A Great Myth about Atheism
Reading Time: 18 minutes This has come up in conversation on the last thread, and being in second day of my Russian chemo, I thought I’d repost for your delectation: This post was one of my most popular pieces on my previous blog, and I have, over time, revised it slightly to make it even tighter, reacting to previous comments […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, The Secular
The Myth about Atheist Atrocities and Numbers of Dead
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many years ago I had a habit of watching a huge amount of debates and between atheists and theists. I do less of it these days as I just don’t have the time. However, there was a stage where I watched a number of debates by the now infamous Dinesh D’Souza. He employed one argument […]
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The Deaths at the Hands of Left-Wing Regimes
Reading Time: 8 minutes This is a perennial conversation that does seem to annoy me. When arguing with people who are further to the right of me, they often invoked deaths caused by Stalin and Pol Pot and other such dictators. They seem to think that those to the extreme left who end up as totalitarian dictators are fully representative of the […]
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I Couldn’t Resist…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Not sure about the provenance of this to source it, but I like it! [Update: Source – thanks below!]
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Duck Dynasty Patriarch: God’s Not Dead, and He’s Mad as Hell
Reading Time: 5 minutes This weekend, the Political Action Committee (PAC) Citizens United (yes, that same Citizens United) releases in theaters a new film entitled Torchbearer, a movie aimed at stirring their conservative base into a frightened frenzy, mobilizing them to get out the vote, hoping to use the November election to put conservatives back into the White House before America […]
Posted inHistory, The Secular
A Great Myth about Atheism: Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot = Atheism = Atrocity – REDUX
Reading Time: 18 minutes This post was one of my most popular pieces on my previous blog, and I have, over time, revised it slightly to make it even tighter, reacting to previous comments on the last version of this piece. I have tried to be detailed enough for it to be fairly comprehensive, though it could be more detailed; […]
Posted inHistory, Politics, The Secular
Nazism, Christianity and Atheism
Reading Time: 3 minutes You´ve all heard the standard lies about the third reich being an “Atheist regime” and Darwinian evolution being a foundation for the Nazi race ideology. The funny (“funny” in a tragic way) thing about this is, that these claims are not only wrong, but that the exact opposite happens to be true.
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A Great Myth about Atheism: Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot = Atheism = Atrocity
Reading Time: 15 minutes For Hitchens and co, religion does little good and secularism hardly any evil. Never mind that tyrants devoid of religion such as Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot perpetrated the worst atrocities in history. As H. Allen Orr, professor of biology at the University of Rochester, observed, the 20th century was an experiment in secularism that produced secular evil, responsible for the unprecedented murder of more than 100 million. (Abramovich, 2009)