How is it that humanists/atheists claim religion is the major cause of cruelty, war and oppression when the 20th Century (surely the most irreligious century ever) hit the jackpot on all three ?
How is it that humanists/atheists claim religion is the major cause of cruelty, war and oppression when the 20th Century (surely the most irreligious century ever) hit the jackpot on all three ?
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Well, I don't know that they all claim it's the major cause--it'd be pretty hard to pin the 20th Century's two world wars directly on religion, though Nazism did have certain characteristics of a religious movement and Hitler justified the extermination of the Jews in religious terms in Mein Kampf -- but there's no doubt it's a major cause. Europe was convulsed for centuries by battles between Catholics and Protestants that were quite explicitly religious in origin, the destruction of aboriginal societies in North and South America was justified largely in religious terms, you can find justification for slavery in the holy books of the three monotheisms, the conflict in the Middle East is largely religious--God is reported as promising the territory to both Jews and Muslims in their texts--only religious fervor creates suicide bombers, and so it goes.How is it that humanists/atheists claim religion is the major cause of cruelty, war and oppression when the 20th Century (surely the most irreligious century ever) hit the jackpot on all three ?