this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
From the same Wiki link, lest we cherry-pick our quotes:
There is no cherry picking. What I quoted is to lend evidence to my statement about the way things were on the island in the 1960s. I am well aware that there has been some moderation since the fall of the Soviet empire.
this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
USSR. 1922 issue of the Bezbozhnik(The Godless) magazine. By 1934, 28% of Eastern Orthodox churches, 42% of Muslim mosques and 52% of Jewish synagogues were shut down in the USSR. [47]State atheism in the Soviet Union was known as "gosateizm", [48] and was based on the ideology of Marxism–Leninism . As the founder of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin put it:
Religion is the opiate of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class. [49]
Marxism-Leninism has consistently advocated the control, suppression, and, ultimately, the elimination of religion. Within about a year of the revolution the state expropriated all church property, including the churches themselves, and in the period from 1922 to 1926, 28 Russian Orthodox bishops and more than 1,200 priests were killed (a much greater number was subjected to persecution). [50]
From the late 1920s to the late 1930s, such organizations as the League of the Militant Godless ridiculed all religions and harassed believers. Anti-religious and atheistic propaganda was implemented into every portion of soviet life, in schools, communist organizations (such as the Young Pioneer Organization), and the media.
this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism#Cuba
Originally more tolerant of religion, after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba began arresting many believers and shutting down religious schools, its prisons since the 1960s being filled with clergy. [67] In 1961 The Cuban government confiscated the Catholic schools, including the Jesuit school Fidel Castro had attended. In 1965 it exiled two hundred priests. [68]
The Communist Party of Cuba defines one of its aims as "the gradual overcoming of religious beliefs by materialistic scientific propaganda and the cultural advancement of the workers." [59] From 1976 to 1992, the Constitution of Cuba contained a clause stating that the "socialist state...bases its activity on, and educates the people in, the scientific materialist concept of the universe [atheism]".
this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
The difference being that an atheistic government would try to suppress all religions and promote atheism - which in fact the Russian and Chinese communists did.
So too in Cuba. It was the proverbial last straw for my own family. My father, still a boy at the time, was coming into an age where soon he would begin military service, and that also came with the state sponsored atheist indoctrination. There was an atheist inquisition in the country.
this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
Perhaps we should ask the question then, BTS - "Does Pat Condell support or deny freedom of religion"?
I think he supports it. What he is against is a religious imperialism, where there is an imposition. It seems to me that he has moderated over the past few years. This is an older video (in the OP). It does not strike that tone, nor does it appear to distinguish between categories of religious people. It is one thing to aggressively militate for freedom, yet another to do so against it.
this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
It is, of course, possible that future "atheistic" governments may do better...but I doubt this, if they do not provide the basic human right of freedom of religion.
If they did, they would not be atheistic.
this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
So again I say - the real human rights advances have come from religions (and non atheistic governments) who have evolved their thinking toward human rights. Not from the atheists - and history is clear on that fact.
Such progress has historically been through religious evolvements.
Many atheists are adept at integrating all the good ideas and using all the good things a judeochristian culture has produced.
We have remarked before that the parasites which live in the intestines of higher animals, feeding upon the nutritive juices which these animals supply, do not need either to see or hear, and therefore for them the visible and audible world does not exist. And if they possessed a certain degree of consciousness and took account of the fact that the animal at whose expense they live believed in a world of sight and hearing, they would perhaps deem such belief to be due merely to the extravagance of its imagination. And similarly there are social parasites, as Mr. A.J. Balfour admirably observes,[10] who, receiving from the society in which they live the motives of their moral conduct, deny that belief in God and the other life is a necessary foundation for good conduct and for a tolerable life, society having prepared for them the spiritual nutriment by which they live. An isolated individual can endure life and live it well and even heroically without in any sort believing either in the immortality of the soul or in God, but he lives the life of a spiritual parasite.
http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/4/6/3/14636/14636.htm
If the host organism dies, what will happen to the parasites?
this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
There is a WPOTD steadily building on this thread.
this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
AA= Another Asshole.
Everbody's got one. But no one can see their own.
this is pretty much how i feel.......who disagrees with this?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjo4duhmrzk&noredirect=1.
Terms like aggressive, militant, prosylitizing, angry are simply brought out by the majority to silence the minority.
So when fundies are called aggressive, militant, proselytizing and angry, is it the majority simply trying to silence the minority?
Interesting.
