oh man, not again.
I'm seriously getting tired of pictures like this:
Calling Dawkins and other vocal Atheists "militant" is of course wrong, but so is implying that Atheism has never been, well, physical violent or had military power. There are f.ex. the very obvious example of the USSR and the ideology of Marxism-Leninism, where religion got banned, the society was dominated by 'Scientific Atheism' propaganda, and in 1937 alone over 85,000 Orthodox priests got executed. But there are also lesser known examples such as f.ex. the French revolution, which was heavily anti-theistic, where religion got banned, priests got murdered, and in the early 1794 thousands of Vendée French - men, women, and children - got massacred 'cause they had opposed the murder of the previous mentioned priests.
I'm getting tired of fellow Atheists presented Atheism as such as nice, peaceful alternative to different religions, when in fact it has shown - especially when in power/the norm - it can be nasty as hell too. There's a lot of stigmatization of Atheism, yes yes I know, but you don't fight misrepresentations with new misrepresentations.
Calling Dawkins and other vocal Atheists "militant" is of course wrong, but so is implying that Atheism has never been, well, physical violent or had military power. There are f.ex. the very obvious example of the USSR and the ideology of Marxism-Leninism, where religion got banned, the society was dominated by 'Scientific Atheism' propaganda, and in 1937 alone over 85,000 Orthodox priests got executed. But there are also lesser known examples such as f.ex. the French revolution, which was heavily anti-theistic, where religion got banned, priests got murdered, and in the early 1794 thousands of Vendée French - men, women, and children - got massacred 'cause they had opposed the murder of the previous mentioned priests.
I'm getting tired of fellow Atheists presented Atheism as such as nice, peaceful alternative to different religions, when in fact it has shown - especially when in power/the norm - it can be nasty as hell too. There's a lot of stigmatization of Atheism, yes yes I know, but you don't fight misrepresentations with new misrepresentations.