In article <40036198.10500@freedom.place>,

InsaneLeft wrote:

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You are fooled by words. A Christian is a theist.
A communist is an atheist. Religion doesn't necessity
a need for a God. In fact there are atheistic religions.
To define someone who loves dogs as someone lacking in
cats is hopelessly ineffective. To define Stalin a
communist as some bland generalised tag that means he
does have a faith in a transcendant being is obviously
unenlightening. Stalin's religion was Communism,

As well as Atheism, yes.

Actually that might not be true since there are
Christian communists.

many would argue he wasn't a communist, but then
many argue Hitler wasn't a Christian because he
didn't live up to well to his belief in a God.
Religion is corrupting when believers fail to use
reason to correct itself and instead use religion
for the purposes of power and control aka Iran.
Whether it's telling gays they can't marry or killing
millions of people. Freedom is about not having to listen
to clerics of theistic or atheistic religions.
Least we forget. Letting Bush use the war on terror
(like Hitler balanced a two-front war) too popular
acclaim is going to come back and bite. Bush
is overstretched and is akin to his Islam extremists
friends in Iran. Using the state to decide who
can marry is no different than deciding who is moral
enough to stand in parliament.

Atheism sucks.

You mean the idea of a universe lacking in a deity
would suck? Like a huge vacuum would appear and really
suck at God speed?

if god created the Universe, who created god?