Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-Dung, Adolph Hitler and Pol Pot are all tyrannical megalomaniacs who together killed more than 100 MILLION human beings in less than 50 years.
All have one thing in common besides breathing air:
They held EVOLUTION to be a fact.
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They all slept, that's true. They all ate, too! And probably drank liquids! And maybe even talked! Thus, if you eat, sleep, or talk, you must have killed millions of people. Logic is fun when you ignore the rules!
<<< All have one thing in common besides breathing air:
They held EVOLUTION to be a fact. >>>
They had a hell of a lot more in common than that. And of all of them, evolution is not the one likely to have a causal relationship.
Unless you give Hitler and Stalin credit for all WWII deaths (which is, at least in Hitler's case, somewhat justifiable), 100 million sounds like an exaggeration. Stalin hit 30 million, Hitler about 6 million (not including war deaths), and I don't think Pol Pot and Mao combined for 64 million.
But do you really want me to go into how many people have been killed by Christians?
Yup. They also ate food, scratched their noses and could read. So from now on food, itches and education are definitely NOT OK, or you may turn into a power crazed meglomaniac.
Fine Print: This is not a conclusive list and other forbidden activities and beliefs may be added without notice
Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Adolph Hitler and Pol Pot all held the following things in common:
Breathing air
Holding evolution to be a fact
Eating
Drinking
Sleeping
Excreting
Having sex
Walking
Talking
Reading
Scratching noses
Scratching other body parts
Shouting
Holding gravity to be a fact
Holding blue-sky belief to be a fact
Holding heliocentricity to be a fact
Holding round-Earth to be a fact
Holding the existance of tables to be a fact
Holding the existance of an external world to be a fact
Holding the existance of other people to be a fact
Holding the existance of China to be a fact
Holding the existance of Germany to be a fact
Holding the existance of the United States to be a fact
Holding the existance of North America to be a fact
Holding the existance of metal to be a fact
Holding germ theory to be a fact
Holding the existance of worms to be a fact
Holding the existance of tulips to be a fact
Holding the existance of bread to be a fact
Holding the existance of hamsters to be a fact
Holding the existance of bushes to be a fact
Holding the existance of paper to be a fact
Holding the existance of Egypt to be a fact
Holding the existance of Russia to be a fact
Holding the existance of dirt to be a fact
Believing that agriculture allows people to grow food.
Believing in something so strongly they were willing to ignore morality to get it.
I'll leave you free to speculate which one of these may have caused them to kill people. My list is non-conclusive, so other people can add to it at any time without anyone's permission and without providing any notice.
Tiny Bulcher is right about Stalin. One similar point about Hitler is that, while he had Evolution-like beliefs, they were anti-scientific perversions of evolution.
Most importantly, Hitler considered evolution to have a real direction and that different creatures can be "more" or "less" evolved as they are closer or further from evolution's goal. This allowed him to claim that people who weren't as close to his ideal were lessers, but the whole idea is complete bullshit. Evolution says no such thing.
That, and nothing about evolution would cause anyone to dislike Jews. It takes centuries of religious hatred for "killing our savior" to do that.
That, and nothing about evolution would cause anyone to dislike Jews. It takes centuries of religious hatred for "killing our savior" to do that.
That whole attitude has always amazed me. If Christians really believe that Jesus had to die in order for their sins to be redeemed, shouldn't they be thanking the folks who killed him?
Stalin banned Darwin's books.
And even if this statement were true, it would still be a retarded argument.
They all had a little something hanging between their legs, as well.
All men must be tyrannical megalomaniacs, then?
Nah, why should they? Most men that I know are nice, intelligent, emphatic and generous. As are most people that I know who hold evolution to be a fact (which is like 98.5 % of all people I know).
"Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-Dung, Adolph Hitler and Pol Pot are all tyrannical megalomaniacs who together killed more than 100 MILLION human beings in less than 50 years."
In that case, they'll be going to heaven. They'll be in good company after all:
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Stalin, Mao, Hitler & Pol Pot killed millions of innocent people. Your 'God' killed millions of innocent people.
And now you know why Atheism exists, Jibaro.
...oh, and one more thing: the above dictators had Cults of Personality. Cult of Personality = Religion. Religious 'belief' (certainly in a central figure/focus of 'worship'/'Godhead') is an anathema to we Atheists.
Your call.
Um, I'm pretty sure Mao at least didn't kill all those millions of people intentionally (it certainly had nothing to do with the theory of evolution, I will tell you that), more like a bad combination of incompetence intermingled with unflinching ideology grossly overstating the successes of collective farming and the great leap forward, increasing rations due to exaggerated reports of a bumper crop, met with 3 years of flooding (1958-1961), and an utter inability to admit just how badly they fucked up (because there is simply no way the godlike figure of Chairman Mao could ever be wrong about anything...). Sure it was ridiculous but then I couldn't possibly imagine it being any better if a creatard was in charge (GOD WILL FIX IT!!! He will make the crops grow like magic, I have FAITH!)...
Well, I know for a fact that Hitler hated evolution, Stalin probably held no truck with actual science anyways, and I'm not all that familiar with Pol Pot's or Mao's politics to make a statement, but I'm gonna call bullshit on that anyways.
Which can only mean one thing--BREATHING AIR MAKES YOU JUST LIKE HITLER!!!
Quick ,Jibaro, hold your breath or you'll cause another Holocaust! Do it now, and never stop!
yeah, and they all breathed air too! therefore, breathing air is evil! stop breathing!
(also, Hitler was a creationist, and I don't think Stalin & Mao & Pol Pot couldn't care any less about evolution. please get your facts straight & don't be a retard)
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