What are some positive teachings in Atheism?

[_SteelHead]

Pol Pot?

[_son of Ishmael]

Pol Pot?

OK Pol Pot might have been an athiest, but was what he did driven purely by atheism?

[_Quasimodo]

OK Pol Pot might have been an athiest, but was what he did driven purely by atheism?

I don't believe that atheism had much to do with the Pol Pot regime and the unbelievable tragedy that occurred in Cambodia. Just his rustic and ignorant view of how egalitarianism should be implemented.

Most Western European countries have governments that refuse any religious connection. They might be better models.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Can you be specific?

And God Created Lenin:

[_MrStakhanovite]

I don't believe that atheism had much to do with the Pol Pot regime and the unbelievable tragedy that occurred in Cambodia.

The Khmer Rogue (like many Communist groups from the past) predicated their "social engineering" on a strict atheistic historical materialism.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Besides North Korea isn't a Marxist state, it is a deformed Leninist state.

Semantics.....

That is like saying the United States isn't a Christian state, it is a deformed Presbyterian state.

Semantics are important.

[_SteelHead]

Lenin........ How many did he kill again?

[_The Dude]

Atheism supports enthusiasm for life and overcomes existential fear.

[_Quasimodo]

Lenin........ How many did he kill again?

Lenin, not very many I think. He didn't have the purges that Stalin had.

Stalin, over ten million, I think (didn't look it up). Not in the cause of atheism, though. Just because he was a paranoid jerk and with total power. You should read up on Stalin. A very interesting and scary guy.

[_son of Ishmael]

While, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, etc were Atheists, I don't think that atheism was the central tenant that drove them to do what they did