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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5N7bercflo
"You're holding a gun to God's head. I can't even think of a metaphor better than this." | ||
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But we know they were strict adherents to the doctrines of the Christian church, right? | |||
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Mitic<Transatlantic Nihilum> | |||
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I'm not Catholic, or religious for that matter.
But, nice try... Since I don't subscribe to your idiocy I MUST be religious, right? | ||
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The means is irrelevant - what's always present is the idea that the individual is less valuable than either *the* collective or a specific collective. I.e. that people are only valuable as they're part of a desired grouping as opposed to intrinsically valuable by virtue of being an individual human being, and violent atrocities against individuals are justifiable if it accomplishes some collective purpose. You can justify that by religion, atheism, politics, whatever...So the means is irrelevant to the act itself. I do support the idea that science and atheism are far more powerful in terms of justification to trample individuals to support a privileged group than religion ever could be because they strip out the window dressing of unconditional love that some religions accept - Science/Atheism kind of lacks this cognitive dissonance. | |||
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