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Originally Posted by Ilya  People kill people. Not guns, not religion, but people. Religious people kill, as do atheists (just look at the USSR). Since religion exists almost everywhere in the world, it makes absolutely no sense to use the argument of "where there is religion there is death", especially considering that atheistic regimes have been even more violent than religious ones. By your logic, you could also argue that pants kill people. After all, everywhere where you see pants, you also see death.
What is dangerous is radicalism, and which symbol the radicals stick on their banner makes no difference at all, be they crosses, stars, hammers and sickles or swastikas. |
I do not believe atheists don't kill people. People with messed up beliefs or extreme ideologies in general, kill people (and some special cases like mental disadvantages, etc.). Come on, I'm not stupid. So that is not "my logic", because I did not claim any such thing, so that would be your generalization of my statement.
But when a priest of an organized and generally respected church/ branch of christianity (for example), says "If you use condoms you will go to hell.", then if those words reflect the official standpoint of that religion, then it is not the priest that kills (well, only a little at least), it is not AIDS that kills (but a little more than the priest), it is the religion (to the largest degree). And this is a religion that is not considered "radical", in general.