thread: 2007-03-02 : God Q&A
On 2007-03-02, Ben Lehman wrote:
Hey, Vincent.
Here's one which is just for you since you're getting all ideological about atheism: Given the vast amount of horrible suffering perpetrated in the last century in the name of Atheism, from where do you get the high horse about Atheism being inherently better than Theism?
(The argument that you're following from seems to be: 'People do bad things to each other in the name of God, therefore the world would be better if people didn't believe in God.' The problem with this argument, from my view, is that people also do horrible things to each other in the name of not believing in God.)
This is something that really cheeses me off about atheists, but you're basically the most reasonable atheist I've met, so I ask.
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—Ben
