[92] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: LIVING WAGE SIT-IN AT HARVARD (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prez H. Cannady)
Fri Apr 20 09:54:56 2001
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From: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>
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At 09:42 AM 4/20/01 , Ray Jones wrote
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>At that point, we start tallying up moral vs immoral events from
>history, and putting them in column A (religion) and column B
>(atheism). A gets the inquisition, the nazis, early persecution of
>christians, and a whole slew of religious wars and genocides. The
>atheists get a few communist countries and that time I punched that
>kid for no reason. The atheists win! The crowd goes wild! Nietzche
>does a victory lap around the stadium, blowing kisses to his fans!
Hold on a sec, you go through all that trouble with
your logical claptrap to say the same damn thing
Josiah actually meant, then you fudge right here.
Your comparison of atheists and theists is entirely
incorrect. Atheists, with one hundred million dead,
have the largest body count in history in the space of
one century. Sure, religion caps your asses in total
number of incidents, but humanity has always been more
inclined to religion than dry atheism for various
reasons. However, if you want to discuss a better
measure for immorality, you best weight those events
by their social cost. You'll find that one hundred
million dead in the TWENTIETH century far outweighs
anything religion has achieved.
Rev Prez
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