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Freedom of religion guarantees that atheists are free to believe their fantasies, so long as they do not hurt others.
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Like Nomen Nescio said right there....the difference with atheists is, if we have fantasies, we acknowledge that they are fantasies.
Not believing in something is not a fantasy, either.
(*Sings *)
'Is this the real life?
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Is this just fantasy ? '
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Sure, and it also means that religious people are free to believe their fantasies, so long as they do not hurt others.
Sadly, they fail in the "not hurt others" often, while atheists very seldom do.
Open your eyes
Last week a mechanic looked after the heating in my apartment and the guy looked eerily like Freddy Mercury. Only with less hair.
It took me a while to realize why his face was so familiar and then it was just spooky
Not sure why people are somehow under the impression that no atheists could ever be oppressive to theists based purely on their religion and that this is just a silly hypothetical.
It's happened before and it's happened on a large scale with communist atheists (not just the Soviet Union) and atheist during the French revolution with the whole "cult of reason" (they actually named it that). So these concerns are entirely valid.
@Kuno
Last week a mechanic looked after the heating in my apartment and the guy looked eerily like Freddy Mercury. Only with less hair.
It took me a while to realize why his face was so familiar and then it was just spooky
Apparently Freddie Mercury faked his death so he could finally leave that mundane life of an international rock star and live out his dream of being a maintenance man at an apartment building.
@Bob: You can be sure that those killed in Communist Russia were eliminated for political reasons. Atheism was promoted as politically expedient, but when the NKVD came a knockin', it had nothing to do with your religious beliefs.
As for the French Revolution, while it spiraled out of control all too quickly, it is hardly surprising that so many victims were believers. Church and state were so intertwined as to be virtually indistinguishable. Further, it is an exceedingly long stretch to imply that those doing the killing were champions of atheism.
"You can be sure that those killed in Communist Russia were eliminated for political reasons. Atheism was promoted as politically expedient,"
It wasn't limited to Russia and communism as an ideology includes a militant promotion of atheism to the point of being oppressive.
"Our Programme is based entirely on the scientific, and moreover the materialist, world-outlook. An explanation of our Programme, therefore, necessarily includes an explanation of the true historical and economic roots of the religious fog. Our propaganda necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism ; the publication of the appropriate scientific literature, which the autocratic feudal government has hitherto strictly forbidden and persecuted, must now form one of the fields of our Party work. We shall now probably have to follow the advice Engels once gave to the German Socialists: to translate and widely disseminate the literature of the eighteenth-century French Enlighteners and atheists" - Lenin
"but when the NKVD came a knockin', it had nothing to do with your religious beliefs."
It had to do with both in many cases.
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