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In reply to the discussion: French Muslims Urge Brothers to Kill Westerners for Allah. [View all]branford
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Moreover, "secular" individuals, groups and governments never committed atrocities or instituted tyrannies in ancient or modern times?
Who knew? Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc. were all obviously under the thrall of Abrahamic religion. I knew all those Marxist revolutionaries were really undercover observant and religious monotheists. I was a history major in college (and it certainly feels like I graduated in 1200 B.C.), and I'm surprised that so many scholars, both left and right, could be so misinformed.
There is certainly much to be criticized about certain religious dogma, both Abrahamic and otherwise, ancient and modern, but the human ability to be self-destructive and cruel is also quite prevalent among the non-religious, to say nothing of many of the great and wonderful advances by those with who held religious beliefs.