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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Giulio Prisco <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com"><giulio@gmail.com></a>
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<div>On Aug 5, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Ben Zaiboc <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ben@zaiboc.net">ben@zaiboc.net</a>>
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<div><span></span>When did you ever hear of anyone committing an
atrocity in the name of unbelief?</div>
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I don't think you understood the question.<br>
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I'm not asking when did you ever hear of a regime trying to enforce
atheism on a population for political reasons.<br>
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I'm asking when did you ever hear of a person committing an atrocity
(or indeed anything deserving of the name 'militant', i.e.
involving the use of force) in the name of atheism itself?<br>
I don't think I've never heard of a single instance of this.<br>
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States will employ force, as they've always done, in order to
control the population. The most obvious reason for mandating
atheism is to remove the power of the church. It has nothing to do
with the issue of belief, it's more like an up-to-date version of
Henry the VIII establishing the church of england.<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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