tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6538255877506581515.post648224232239770920..comments2023-11-22T09:00:59.909-08:00Comments on Atheistwatch: More Hate Group Atheism still thereJoseph Hinman (Metacrock)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6538255877506581515.post-69879535874806913582010-05-23T21:51:24.087-07:002010-05-23T21:51:24.087-07:00The real problem for me is the apples-and-oranges ...The real problem for me is the apples-and-oranges difference here. Theism is one tenet of a bunch of different worldviews. Atheism is one tenet of a bunch of different worldviews. Show me one crime that simple belief in a diety or dieties caused. No one ever started an Inquisition just because they believed there was a diety. No one ever started a communist purge just because they didn't believe in a diety. But atheists want to compare atheism, not with theism, but with fundamentalist, dominionist Christianity, or with medieval Roman Catholicism. And then an atheist will often deflect comparisons to Communism by claiming that just because they're atheists doesn't make them communists. Well, guess what? Just because we're theists doesn't make us fundamentalist dominionists. Just because we're Christians doesn't make us fundamentalist dominionists either-- any more than secular humanists are communists just because both worldviews are atheistic. <br /><br />It seems fairly clear to me that the real problem isn't atheism, and it isn't theism. It isn't Christianity, either-- and it isn't secular humanism. It's dominionism. Communism's crimes sprang from its dominionism. Medieval Roman Catholicism's Inquisition sprang from its dominionism. It's when people, theist or atheist, embrace a worldview that justifies seizing power and dictating the good for all other people-- that's what we should all be standing against, not pointing fingers at each other.<br /><br />Christians are getting really tired of the dangerously simplistic view some atheists have of Christianity. It's dangerous because it blanket-villifies a whole, disparate group of people based simply upon a label placed upon them. This is a frightening trend, with possibilities that any fair, sane atheist or theist should want to nip in the bud.Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252374623355509404noreply@blogger.com