Uhhh did you forgot about the eugenics, reeducation camps etc?
I presume they’re talking about stuff like this:
China guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity against Uyghurs, watchdog finds
To be fair the real atheist extremes are all bounded to countries like China, North Korea, the former soviet union, and tankies (who never go outside), so it’s hard for most people to think about until they meet people from other parts of the world.
Also “The cult of reason” during the French Revolution, and I’m not even really saying those priests didn’t have it coming. I’m an atheist, but I don’t really think humanity would be any less violent if religion didn’t exist.
Yes, in the name of re-educating them from their dirty Islamic faith.
Look, I’m atheist too (aren’t we all) but I’m not far enough into the groupthink to think that atheism can take the asshole out of people. Every group has their fundies, and pretending that atheism somehow only turns people into hipsters is disingenuous.
Moreover, at the point that people make atheism part of their identity rather than just a void absent of religion, they have created an in-group and people who can be “adherent” to it. People can do things in the name of atheism, both good and bad, once they start seeing it as us-vs-them.
Which is a little ironic, since I feel part of what makes being an atheist so nice is that we can have a little more objectivity as to what makes and breaks belief groups in general.
No one is out there forcefully deconverting Muslims because of their belief in atheism.
Assuming you’re talking about China, they are doing to for control. They don’t want a part of their population following someone or something else except the state.
Microbrew lovers are the worst. What’s wrong with normal beer. :-P
Count me in.
