Facts and Fiction
Facts and Fiction
Strange how this applies in both politics and religion.
"God" is the original deus ex machina. --Maksutov
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Atheism doesn't have a good track record either.
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The CCC wrote:Atheism doesn't have a good track record either.
States based on atheism certainly committed genocide in the 20th century. I would venture that atheism had more victims than religion in that century. Even more tragic, much of the destruction was to their own people, due to ethnic cleansing, resource mismanagement and deliberate elimination, including murder, of communities.
"God" is the original deus ex machina. --Maksutov
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Truly sad all the way around.
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I can't agree with the OP.
Can't we attribute more atrocities to those who indeed insist that they have clearly distinguished between right/wrong or true/false? Ambiguous people are likely less motivated to perform anything in the name of whatever.
Apathy may not fight back but it also doesn't attack
Can't we attribute more atrocities to those who indeed insist that they have clearly distinguished between right/wrong or true/false? Ambiguous people are likely less motivated to perform anything in the name of whatever.
Apathy may not fight back but it also doesn't attack
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I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them
what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams
If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
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subgenius wrote:I can't agree with the OP.
Can't we attribute more atrocities to those who indeed insist that they have clearly distinguished between right/wrong or true/false? Ambiguous people are likely less motivated to perform anything in the name of whatever.
Apathy may not fight back but it also doesn't attack
That's another way to frame it that might work.
"God" is the original deus ex machina. --Maksutov
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subgenius wrote:I can't agree with the OP.
Can't we attribute more atrocities to those who indeed insist that they have clearly distinguished between right/wrong or true/false? Ambiguous people are likely less motivated to perform anything in the name of whatever.
Apathy may not fight back but it also doesn't attack
subgenius , I think you have a point here. Apathy makes poor soldiers and poor political supporters. Apathy may allow fanatics more opportunity to control by failing to resist.
There is another possibility. The opening quote may have in mind people who willingly believe fanatic authority because truth does not matter enough to them to question authority.
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subgenius wrote:I can't agree with the OP.
Can't we attribute more atrocities to those who indeed insist that they have clearly distinguished between right/wrong or true/false? Ambiguous people are likely less motivated to perform anything in the name of whatever.
Apathy may not fight back but it also doesn't attack
I think you're conflating right and wrong fallacies with true and false. People who have clearly distinguished right from wrong oftentimes do so with a complete disregard of objective reality. (Let's visit the Creation Museum!). Your're right: Thoughtful people can have ambiguous feeling about complex moral issues like abortion or the death penalty. But that's different from saying (for example) that the earth flooded for 40 days and 40 nights, and the animals that survived lived in an arc.
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