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Atheism and gullibility (view source)
Revision as of 11:56, October 6, 2019
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* [[Atheist population and immorality|Atheism and various types of immorality]]
* [[Atheist population and immorality|Atheism and various types of immorality]]
=== Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders ===
[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Joseph Stalin]]'s atheistic regime killed tens of millions of people.]]
''See also:'' [[Atheism and Mass Murder|Atheism and mass murder]] and [[Atheist atrocities]] and [[Atheism and human rights violations]] and [[Atheism and violence]] and [[Atheism and leadership]]
Historically, [[atheism]] has generally been an integral part of [[communism|communist]] ideology (see: [[Atheism and communism]]).
According to the [[University of Cambridge]], historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 [[Russian Revolution]], which brought the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]] to power."<ref name="Marxism-Leninism">{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728215151/http://www.investigatingatheism.info/marxism.html|title=Investigating atheism: Marxism|publisher = [[University of Cambridge]]|quote=The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.|year=2008|accessdate=July 17, 2014}}</ref>
In a ''Washington Post'' article entitled ''Lessons from a century of communism'' Ilya Somin wrote:
{{Cquote|Today is the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power, which led to the establishment of a communist regime in Russia and eventually in many other nations around the world. It is an appropriate time to remember the vast tide of oppression, tyranny, and mass murder that communist regimes unleashed upon the world. While historians and others have documented numerous communist atrocities, much of the public remains unaware of their enormous scale. It is also a good time to consider what lessons we can learn from this horrendous history.
Collectively, communist states killed as many as 100 million people, more than all other repressive regimes combined during the same time period...
There is no doubt communist governments had more than their share of cruel and even sociopathic leaders.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/11/07/lessons-from-a-century-of-communism/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.753200c16459 Lessons from a century of communism] by Ilya Somin, ''Washington Post''</ref>}}
[[File:Vox Day.jpg|thumbnail|left|150px|[[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] ]]
[[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] notes concerning atheism, mass murder and sociopathic atheist leaders:
{{cquote|Apparently it was just an amazing coincidence that every Communist of historical note publicly declared his atheism … .there have been twenty-eight countries in world history that can be confirmed to have been ruled by regimes with avowed atheists at the helm … These twenty-eight historical regimes have been ruled by eighty-nine atheists, of whom more than half have engaged in democidal acts of the sort committed by [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] …
The total body count for the ninety years between 1917 and 2007 is approximately 148 million dead at the bloody hands of fifty-two atheists, three times more than all the human beings killed by war, civil war, and individual crime in the entire twentieth century combined.
The historical record of collective atheism is thus 182,716 times worse on an annual basis than Christianity’s worst and most infamous misdeed, the Spanish Inquisition. It is not only Stalin and Mao who were so murderously inclined, they were merely the worst of the whole [[Atheism and Hell|Hell-bound lot]]. For every Pol Pot whose infamous name is still spoken with horror today, there was a Mengistu, a Bierut, and a Choibalsan, godless men whose names are now forgotten everywhere but in the lands they once ruled with a red hand.
Is a 58 percent chance that an atheist leader will murder a noticeable percentage of the population over which he rules sufficient evidence that atheism does, in fact, provide a systematic influence to do bad things? If that is not deemed to be conclusive, how about the fact that the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one-twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them. If one considers the statistically significant size of the historical atheist set and contrasts it with the fact that not one in a thousand religious leaders have committed similarly large-scale atrocities, it is impossible to conclude otherwise, even if we do not yet understand exactly why this should be the case. Once might be an accident, even twice could be coincidence, but fifty-two incidents in ninety years reeks of causation!<ref>[[Vox Day]], ''The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens'' (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, Inc.), 2008, p. 17.</ref><ref>Ammi, Ken (June 11, 2009). [https://creation.com/atheism#atheism-communism "Atheism [quoting Vox Day]"]. Creation Ministries International. Retrieved on July 19, 2014.</ref>}}
Beale also wrote: "I believe that a small minority of atheists are rational sociopaths - unfortunately, these are the ones who seem to have the will to power."<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2003/11/strange-semantics.html Strange Semantics] by [[Vox Day|Theodore Beal/Vox Day]]</ref>
Theodore Beale wrote about the [[secular left]] and mass murder:
{{cquote|...it does, however, cast serious doubt on the [[Atheism and world peace|common atheist assertion that a godless society will be a peaceful one]]. The significant question has never been if atheism causes political leaders to kill in large quantities, it is why political leaders who happen to be atheist have been inordinately inclined to kill in large quantities.
As I wrote in [http://www.voxday.net/mart/TIA_free.pdf TIA], the answer is probably to be found in the fact that atheists who have committed great historical crimes are almost exclusively left-wing atheists with [[utopia]]n visions of restructuring human society; [[Ayn Rand]] atheists aren't exactly known for attempting to violently restructure societal order.<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2009/01/atheist-demotivator-4.html Atheist Demotivator #4] by Theodore Beal</ref>}}
=== Social effects of the theory of evolution ===
=== Social effects of the theory of evolution ===