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Atheism and Mass Murder (view source)
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Christian philosophers and theologians explain that there are causal links between mass murder and atheism. Atheism, lack belief in God, have the following characteristics that can lend itself to mass murder and can explain why the greatest mass murderers were atheists:<ref>Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli, Christian apologetics</ref><ref>Joseph de Torre, Christian philosophy</ref><ref>Contemporary Philosophical Issues in Historical Perspective, Manila: UA&P, 2000</ref>
Christian philosophers and theologians explain that there are causal links between mass murder and atheism. Atheism, lack belief in God, have the following characteristics that can lend itself to mass murder and can explain why the greatest mass murderers were atheists:<ref>Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli, Christian apologetics</ref><ref>Joseph de Torre, Christian philosophy</ref><ref>Contemporary Philosophical Issues in Historical Perspective, Manila: UA&P, 2000</ref>
*lack of recognition of an ultimate judge of moral actions and a judge who sets injustice aright in a last judgement, and thus do not recognize the immorality of murder. 8====D~
*lack of recognition of an ultimate judge of moral actions and a judge who sets injustice aright in a last judgement, and thus do not recognize the immorality of murder.
*lack of seeing the importance of human beings as images of God and so easily discarding them as merely material things, products of mere chance.
*lack of seeing the importance of human beings as images of God and so easily discarding them as merely material things, products of mere chance.
*lack of acknowledging an external standard of moral perfection, thus ending up with self-created standards which can include killing for political survival.
*lack of acknowledging an external standard of moral perfection, thus ending up with self-created standards which can include killing for political survival.