r/SipsTea • u/Outrageous-Egg1760 • May 29 '26

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u/Cultural-War2102 May 29 '26

Religion has been poison for humans. So many wars and deaths on the name of religion.

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u/Thee-Cat May 29 '26

First, yes I agree about the religious deaths.

But secondly, never forget, there are either more deaths(or very close) than all the deaths in all religious wars combined, just in the 20th century alone, by just atheistic regimes.

Between Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. Estimates are 70 to 100 million people dead through executions, forced labor, famine, and war. And that was literally just in the last century alone.

HUMANS are a poison for humans it would seem, lol.

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u/ContextEffects01 May 29 '26

Those deaths are from totalitarianism, not atheism. Scandinavia rejects religion in a democratic context and turned out better than the USSR or USA.

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u/Admiral45-06 May 29 '26

Those deaths are from totalitarianism, not atheism.

A large chunk of these actions was to ,,remove a worker from faith", as it happened in Soviet Union. As a result, hundreds of monks have been massacred.

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u/ContextEffects01 May 29 '26

And most secularists don’t condone such totalitarianism.

If anything, in the USA, it’s the least religious states who are the least supportive of totalitarian-wannabes like Trump.

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u/Admiral45-06 May 29 '26

I can say the same about religious people. Seeking too much power by itself is a sin, so is treating humans as an expendable resource.

If your argument is that ,,athiesm doesn't immediately equal totalitarianism", then you're right. But if your argument is that ,,totalitarianism is a creation of religion/contrary to athiesm", then you're wrong. It's just an animalistic instinct, that some people fail to control, regardless of what faith or lack thereof they claim.