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McAtheism and the McChurch
Atheist philosopher Quentin Smith once complained:
If each naturalist who does not specialize in the philosophy of religion (i.e., over ninety-nine percent of naturalists) were locked in a room with theists who do specialize in the philosophy of religion, and if the ensuing debates were refereed by a naturalist who had a specialization in the philosophy of religion, the naturalist referee could at most hope the outcome would be that “no definite conclusion can be drawn regarding the rationality of faith,” although I expect the most probable outcome is that the naturalist, wanting to be a fair and objective referee, would have to conclude that the theists definitely had the upper hand in every single argument or debate.
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Q: But Isn’t Religion the Root of All Evil? Part 3
Q: Didn’t Lenin, Stalin and Hitler lead religious movements?
A: Some of their propaganda was pseudo-religious. But they were totalitarians, who could not permit authority outside the state. Churches had to to be controlled or eliminated because they appealed to the authority of God.
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Tagged Communism and Atheism, Good and Evil, Myth of Christian Hitler, Myths of Secularism, New Atheism
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