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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> | [[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> | ||
| − | 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). | + | 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]]). |
== Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders == | == Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders == | ||
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Below is information relating to atheism and its anti-civilizational effects.
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Atheism and fertility rates
See also: Atheism and fertility rates
Atheistic/irreligious populations/countries in the world currently have a below replacement levels of births (see: Atheism and fertility rates).
Michael Blume, a researcher at the University of Jena in Germany, wrote about the sub-replacement level of fertility among atheistic populations: "Most societies or communities that have espoused atheistic beliefs have not survived more than a century."[3] Blume also indicated concerning concerning his research on this matter: "What I found was the complete lack of a single case of a secular population, community or movement that would just manage to retain replacement level."[3] See also: Atheism and sexuality
According to an international study done by William Bainbridge, atheism is frequent among people whose interpersonal social obligations are weak and is also linked to lower fertility rates in advanced industrial nations (See also: Atheism and social skills).[4] See also: Atheism, women and children
Replacement fertility is the level of fertility that is required to sustain a population without any external inputs (see also: Population crash).
In human populations, replacement fertility is 2.1 children born per woman in a given population.
Caspar Melville wrote in The New Humanist: "Firstly secular liberalism is individualistic, and therefore it goes hand in hand with delayed child bearing and lower fertility rates.[5]
Atheism and culture
See also: Atheism and culture and Atheism statistics
Culture consists of the "language, habits, ideas, beliefs, customs, social organization, inherited artifacts, technical processes, and values."[6]
Historians, 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).
Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders
See also: 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 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 Marxist-Leninists to power."[7]
In a Washington Post article entitled Lessons from a century of communism Ilya Somin wrote:
| “ | 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.[8] |
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Theodore Beale notes concerning atheism, mass murder and sociopathic atheist leaders:
| “ | 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 Stalin and 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 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![9][10] |
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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."[11]
Theodore Beale wrote about the secular left and mass murder:
| “ | ...it does, however, cast serious doubt on the 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 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 utopian visions of restructuring human society; Ayn Rand atheists aren't exactly known for attempting to violently restructure societal order.[12] |
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Notes
- ↑ "Atheism: Contemporary Rates and Patterns" (PDF)
- ↑ "Are Czechs the least religious of all? | Dana Hamplova | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Atheist: A dying breed as nature favours faithful
- ↑ Bainbridge, William (2005). "Atheism" (PDF). Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. 1 (Article 2): 1–26.
- ↑ Battle of the Babies by Caspar Melville, The New Humanist
- ↑ Christianity and culture
- ↑ Investigating atheism: Marxism. University of Cambridge (2008). Retrieved on July 17, 2014. “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.”
- ↑ Lessons from a century of communism by Ilya Somin, Washington Post
- ↑ Vox Day, The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, Inc.), 2008, p. 17.
- ↑ Ammi, Ken (June 11, 2009). "Atheism [quoting Vox Day]". Creation Ministries International. Retrieved on July 19, 2014.
- ↑ Strange Semantics by Theodore Beal/Vox Day
- ↑ Atheist Demotivator #4 by Theodore Beal
