Attention Atheists

[benlehman]

Attention atheists who say "atheists don't do horrible things in the name of their religion."

Please go read a book about the cultural revolution.

Comments

[misuba.livejournal.com]

Religion is a way of thinking.

[evilmagnus]

...and so was Maoist Communism. Both killed lots of people. ;-p

[misuba.livejournal.com]

You were absolutely right until you got to "both" - they're really the same way of thinking.

I mean, I'm about to state it in a way that sounds lame and dodgy, but really, a bunch of professed atheists can get together and start behaving like a cult, and when that happens, they've become a religion for the definition of "religion" that I have in mind here.