re genocide is caused by atheism in article qif g fp horus ap mchp sni de frank d s uucp frank o dwyer writes in article qialf p m fido asd sgi com livesey solntze wpd sgi com jon livesey writes in article qi egl horus ap mchp sni de frank d s uucp frank o dwyer writes stuff deleted to the newsgroup at large how about this for a deal recognise that what happened in former communist russia has as much bearing on the validity of atheism as has the doings of sundry theists on the validity of their theism that s zip nada none the fallacy is known as ad hominem and it s an old one it should be in the holy faq in the book of constructing a logical argument apart from not making a lot of sense this is wrong there is no atheist creed that taught any communist what to do in the name of atheism there clearly are theistic creeds and instructions on how to act for theists they all madly conflict with one another but that s another issue lack of instructions on how to act might also be evil that s like saying that since mathematics includes no instructions on how to act it is evil atheism is not a moral system so why should it speak of instructions on how to act atheism is simply lack of belief in god plenty of theists think so so one could argue the case for atheism causes whatever i didn t like about the former ussr with as much validity as theism causes genocide that is to say no validity at all i think the argument that a particular theist system causes genocide can be made more convincingly than an argument that atheism causes genocide this is because theist systems contain instructions on how to act and one or more of these can be shown to cause genocide however since the atheist set of instructions is the null set how can you show that atheism causes genocide david choweller davec silicon csci csusb edu there are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment s notice to reveal the will of god on every possible subject george bernard shaw there are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment s notice to reveal the will of god on every possible subject george bernard shaw
