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Power and Piety
Is the promotion of violence inherent to any religion?
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Looking at Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Tito, Castro, Che Guevara, Kim il-Sung, and Pol Pot, I'd say that atheism does a whole lot of promotion of violence when it sees fit.
Fair to say. Somewhat different than the question posed by the article, though. The equivalent question would be whether atheism, of necessity, promotes violence.
How can it? It only tells us one thing: that the atheist doesn't believe in any gods. Anything else must necessarily come from the unbeliever.
Atheists can be as good or bad as anyone else. We just can't claim that our choices have any divine guidance.