Atheism and its anti-civilizational effects - Revision history

Conservative at 20:14, January 25, 2025

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Conservative: /* Atheism, alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking, sedentary lifestyles and health */

2023-02-24T23:47:29Z

‎Atheism, alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking, sedentary lifestyles and health

Conservative at 04:35, December 15, 2022

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Conservative: /* Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders */

2022-12-15T04:32:05Z

‎Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders

Conservative at 00:48, January 19, 2020

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Wikignome72: /* Atheism and justice */

2019-11-26T12:18:30Z

‎Atheism and justice

Wikignome72: /* Atheism and culture: Art, architecture, music, language, poetry, dance and humor */

2019-09-28T19:56:07Z

‎Atheism and culture: Art, architecture, music, language, poetry, dance and humor

Wikignome72: /* Atheism and culture: Art, architecture, music, language, poetry, dance and humor */

2019-09-28T19:53:33Z

‎Atheism and culture: Art, architecture, music, language, poetry, dance and humor

Wikignome72: /* Atheism and culture */

2019-09-28T19:53:12Z

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Wikignome72: /* Atheism and culture */

2019-09-28T19:52:51Z

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-[[File:Beggar in Cambodia.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Most atheists likely live in [[East Asia]] (see: [[Asian atheism]]).
+[[File:Beggar in Cambodia.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Most atheists likely live in [[East Asia]] (see: [[Asian atheism]]).
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 *Alternate source of abstract: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19210054 "Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: associations, explanations, and implications" [abstract&#93;].   Retrieved from PubMed.gov on September 10, 2014.</ref> ]]
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 {{cquote|Recently the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has published its mammoth study on Religion in America based on 35,000 interviews... According to the Pew Forum a whopping 37% of atheists never [[Marriage|marry]] as opposed to 19% of the American population, 17% of Protestants and 17% of Catholics.<ref>https://creation.com/atheism</ref>}}
-[[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] declared that according to the 2001 [[American Religious Identification Survey]] (ARIS) "more than half of all atheists and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] don’t get married."<ref>https://creation.com/atheism</ref>
+According to the 2001 [[American Religious Identification Survey]] (ARIS) "more than half of all atheists and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] don’t get married."<ref>https://creation.com/atheism</ref>
 == Atheist population and immorality ==
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 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&#93;"].  Creation Ministries International.  Retrieved on July 19, 2014.</ref>}}
+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&#93;"].  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>
+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]</ref>
 Theodore Beale wrote about the [[secular left]] and mass murder:

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 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:
+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]] …

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		+	== Atheism and authoritarianism ==
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		+	See also: [[Atheism and authoritarianism]]

	== Atheism/irreligion and crime ==		== Atheism/irreligion and crime ==

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 For example, relative to [[Christianity]], which has a large collection of art, music and poetry associated it, atheism has a very small collection of art, music and poetry associated with it (see: [[Atheist art]] and [[Atheist music]] and [[Atheist poetry]]).
-It is often said that atheism is boring, stale and difficult to believe (see: [[Atheism and inspiration]]).
+It is often said that atheism is boring, stale and difficult to believe (see: [[Atheism and inspiration]]). Research indicates that atheists are less open-minded (see: [[Atheism and open-mindedness]]).
 For additional information, please see:

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 [[Culture]] consists of the "language, habits, ideas, beliefs, customs, social organization, inherited artifacts, technical processes, and values."<ref>[http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~sjreeves/cm/culture.html Christianity and culture]</ref>
-Atheism has not produced any outstanding cultural achievements and it has had a negative effect on cultures (see: [[Atheism and culture]] and [[Atheism and its anti-civilizational effects]] and [[Atheism statistics]]).
+Atheism has not produced any outstanding cultural achievements and it has had a negative effect on cultures (see: [[Atheism and culture]] and [[Atheism statistics]]).
 For example, relative to [[Christianity]], which has a large collection of art, music and poetry associated it, atheism has a very small collection of art, music and poetry associated with it (see: [[Atheist art]] and [[Atheist music]] and [[Atheist poetry]]).
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 *[[Atheism and dance]]
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 == Atheism, social/interpersonal intelligence and loneliness ==

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−	~~== Atheism and culture ==~~
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−	~~''See also:'' [[Atheism and culture]] and [[Atheism statistics]]~~
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−	[[Culture]] consists of the "language, habits, ideas, beliefs, customs, social organization, inherited artifacts, technical processes, and values."<ref>[http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~sjreeves/cm/culture.html Christianity and culture]</ref>
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−	Historians, [[social science\|social scientists]] and others have discovered a number of ways that [[atheism]] can have a negative effect on a societies culture and individuals (see: [[Atheism and culture]] and [[Atheism statistics]]).
−	~~=== Atheism and culture: Art, architecture, music, language, poetry, dance and humor ===~~
−	~~''See also:'' [[Atheism and culture]]~~
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−	Atheism has not produced any outstanding cultural achievements and it has had a negative effect on cultures (see: [[Atheism and culture]]). It is often said that atheism is boring, stale and difficult to believe (see: [[Atheism and inspiration]]).
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−	~~For additional information, please see:~~
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−	*[[Atheist art]]
−	*[[Atheism and architecture]]
−	*[[Atheist music]]
−	*[[Atheist population and verbal–linguistic intelligence\|Atheism and linguistic/oratory skills]]
−	*[[Atheist poetry]]
−	*[[Atheism and dance]]
−	*[[Atheism and humor]]

	== Atheism, social/interpersonal intelligence and loneliness ==		== Atheism, social/interpersonal intelligence and loneliness ==

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 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>}}
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 *[[Atheism and dance]]
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 == Atheism, social/interpersonal intelligence and loneliness ==