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My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 9:54am On Jul 26, 2016
Many years ago when I first doubted my religious beliefs, I felt God was testing me. For a long time I carried doubts of God's existence likewise proofs, they were times I believed in God 100% without a trace of doubt but as time flew and i began to get matured and wanted to read more and understand why people reject religion or religious beliefs till I stumbled on why am not a Christian by Bertrand Russel and later read Thomas Paine Age Of Reason last year it was then I understood that people have the right to reject their religious beliefs because of so many inconsistencies and mistakes, brutality, genocides and so many other things time will fail me to talk about.

Then I later stopped going out to preach to people about Jesus knowing fully well people should believe what they chose to and not what should be forced on them.then there was this great misconception on we atheist that most of us were immoral in our lives and judgement but they were all wrong, atheism does not mean good or evil,it doesn't change the fact you are evil or good, all it does is it changes the way you view things, you start viewing things from a reality perspective not a mythical or superstitious perspective, you start being responsible for your actions and not blaming some skydaddy that doesn't exist or blaming your mother or loved ones for your misfortunes.

Sometimes when I look at the comments of people mostly christians justifying murders of religious apostates or murder in the name of God it will shock you hardly see muslims justify the murder of apostates on nairaland Christians have justified the murders of millions of people both children and murders committed in the name of God.

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 9:55am On Jul 26, 2016
if you theist want to debate me do not use memes but words winner01 and kingebukanaija beware

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 9:57am On Jul 26, 2016
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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:11am On Jul 26, 2016
if winner01 and kingebukanaija blamed atheism for the murder of millions in europe in the early 20 century they should know that hitler succeded in killing millions because of the christian germany wanted a christian soldier to do the evil of cleansing germany of evil,he knowing fully well that germans are gullible he preyed on their gullibility on religion and slaughtered millions of jews and blacks while josef stalin on the other hand murderd millions with his associates because he thought he was making russia great and indeed he made russia great nut not without killings which he shouldn't have done these where the legacies of stalin*****
what winner01 didnt tell you about stalin


The Soviet Union became the first country to adopt a planned economy, whereby production and distribution of goods were centralized and directed by the government. The first Bolshevik experience with a command economy was the policy of War communism, which involved the nationalization of industry, centralized distribution of output, coercive requisition of agricultural production, and attempts to eliminate the circulation of money, as well as private enterprises and free trade. After the severe economic collapse caused by the war, Lenin replaced War Communism with the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1921, legalising free trade and private ownership of smaller businesses. The economy quickly recovered.[92]

Following a lengthy debate among the members of Politburo over the course of economic development, by 1928–1929, upon gaining control of the country, Joseph Stalin abandoned the NEP and pushed for full central planning, starting forced collectivization of agriculture and enacting draconian labor legislation. Resources were mobilized for rapid industrialization, which greatly expanded Soviet capacity in heavy industry and capital goods during the 1930s.[92] Preparation for war was one of the main driving forces behind industrialization, mostly due to distrust of the outside capitalistic world.[93] As a result, the USSR was transformed from a largely agrarian economy into a great industrial power, leading the way for its emergence as a superpower after World War II.[94] During the war, the Soviet economy and infrastructure suffered massive devastation and required extensive reconstruction.
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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:14am On Jul 26, 2016
what winner01 and kingebukanaija didn't tell you of stalin legacies or atheistic russia
The Soviet Union placed great emphasis on science and technology within its economy,[115] however, the most remarkable Soviet successes in technology, such as producing the world's first space satellite, typically were the responsibility of the military.[98] Lenin believed that the USSR would never overtake the developed world if it remained as technologically backward as it was upon its founding. Soviet authorities proved their commitment to Lenin's belief by developing massive networks, research and development organizations. In the early 1960s, the Soviets awarded 40% of chemistry PhDs to women, compared to only 5% who received such a degree in the United States.[116] By 1989, Soviet scientists were among the world's best-trained specialists in several areas, such as energy physics, selected areas of medicine, mathematics, welding and military technologies. Due to rigid state planning and bureaucracy, the Soviets remained far behind technologically in chemistry, biology, and computers when compared to the First World.

Project Socrates, under the Reagan administration, determined that the Soviet Union addressed the acquisition of science and technology in a manner that was radically different from what the US was using. In the case of the US, economic prioritization was being used for indigenous research and development as the means to acquire science and technology in both the private and public sectors. In contrast, the Soviet Union was offensively and defensively maneuvering in the acquisition and utilization of the worldwide technology, to increase the competitive advantage that they acquired from the technology, while preventing the US from acquiring a competitive advantage. However, in addition, the Soviet Union's technology-based planning was executed in a centralized, government-centric manner that greatly hindered its flexibility. It was this significant lack of flexibility that was exploited by the US to undermine the strength of the Soviet Union and thus foster its reform.[117][118][119]

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:16am On Jul 26, 2016
did malvisguy,kingebukanaija and winner01 tell you this they hid it because they knew the truth but prefered to die of lies
Education
Main article: Education in the Soviet Union

Soviet pupils in Milovice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), 1985
Before 1917, education was not free in the Russian Empire and was therefore either inaccessible or barely accessible for many children from lower-class working and peasant families. Estimates from 1917 recorded that 75–85 percent of the Russian population was illiterate.

Anatoly Lunacharsky became the first People's Commissar for Education of Soviet Russia. At the beginning, the Soviet authorities placed great emphasis on the elimination of illiteracy. People who were literate were automatically hired as teachers. For a short period, quality was sacrificed for quantity. By 1940, Joseph Stalin could announce that illiteracy had been eliminated. Throughout the 1930s social mobility rose sharply, which has been attributed to Soviet reforms in education.[137] In the aftermath of the Great Patriotic War, the country's educational system expanded dramatically. This expansion had a tremendous effect. In the 1960s, nearly all Soviet children had access to education, the only exception being those living in remote areas. Nikita Khrushchev tried to make education more accessible, making it clear to children that education was closely linked to the needs of society. Education also became important in giving rise to the New Man.[138] Citizens directly entering the work force had the constitutional right to a job and to free vocational training.

The country's system of education was highly centralized and universally accessible to all citizens, with affirmative action for applicants from nations associated with cultural backwardness. However, as part of the general antisemitic policy, an unofficial Jewish quota was applied in the leading institutions of higher education by subjecting Jewish applicants to harsher entrance examinations.[139][140][141][142] The Brezhnev era also introduced a rule that required all university applicants to present a reference from the local Komsomol party secretary.[143] According to statistics from 1986, the number of higher education students per the population of 10,000 was 181 for the USSR, compared to 517 for the U.S.[144]
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by theoneJabulani(m): 10:18am On Jul 26, 2016
To a Christian, the average atheists is evil, vile, scared and demon possessed but reverse is the case. People need to understand that we are not monsters, just people who don't want to be scammed anymore

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by winner01(m): 10:28am On Jul 26, 2016
I will not debate you because you do not need a debate, you need facts.

And I have a whole lot for you.

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:33am On Jul 26, 2016
winner01:
I will not debate you because you do not need a debate, you need facts.

And I have a whole lot for you.
when you came into this thread did you read where i said no memes or pictures but words

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by winner01(m): 10:45am On Jul 26, 2016
Getting facts on issues like this from wikipedia is almost the same as seeking godly answers from nairaland religion section.


Historically illiterate atheists love to claim that atheism had nothing to do with communist ideology or that communism
was another religious ideology, we will let the communist leaders speak for themselves in their own words. Here are more quotes from communist atheists who express their goal to
create an atheist society and you can notice many of their ideals are shared by today's atheists (especially that the eradication of religion leading to a better and more equal
society):


"The criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism. ...
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. ... The criticism of
religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and
regained his senses ..."- Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 1844



"As socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part."- Karl Marx, Interview with Karl
Marx, Chicago Tribune, January 5 1879


"We want to sweep away everything that claims to be supernatural and superhuman, and thereby get rid of untruthfulness, for the root of all untruth and Lying is the pretension of the human and the natural to be superhuman and supernatural. For that reason we have once and for all declared
war on religion and religious ideas ..."- Friedrich Engels (co-founder of Marxist theory), Review of Thomas Carlyle's Past and
Present, 1844



"The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is guided by the conviction that only conscious and deliberate planning of all the social and economic activities of the masses will cause
religious prejudices to die out. The Party strives for the complete dissolution of the ties between the exploiting classes and the organizations of religious propaganda, facilitates the real emancipation of the working masses from religious prejudices and organizes the widest possible scientific
educational and anti-religious propaganda."- Political Program of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), adopted
March 22, 1919 at the Eighth Congress of the Russian Communist Party, section 13


"We must deepen a revolutionary world-outlook, we must fight the religious prejudices in the youth and approach the youth, including those having religious prejudices, with the maximum pedagogical attentiveness of the more educated towards the less educated. We must go to them with the propaganda of atheism, for only this propaganda defines the place of man in
the universe and draws out for him a circle of conscious activity here on earth."- Leon Trotsky, The Position of the Republic and
the Tasks of Young Workers, 1922



“Scientific communism, in its judgements concerning natural phenomena, is guided by the data of the natural sciences, which
are in irreconcilable conflict with all religious imaginings. … In practice, no less than in theory, communism is incompatible with religious faith. … THE TRANSITION FROM SOCIALISM TO COMMUNISM … WILL BRING ABOUT THE NATURAL DEATH OF
ALL RELIGION AND ALL SUPERSTITION.”- N.I. Bukharin and E. Preobrazhensky: The ABC of Communism, Chapter 11:
Communism and Religion, 1922



“Communist society will bury forever all mysticism, religion, prejudice and superstition and will give a powerful impetus to the development of all-conquering, scientific knowledge. ... One of the most important tasks of the cultural revolution affecting the wide masses, is the task of systematically and unswervingly combating religion-the opium of the people. ... the proletarian State ... carries on anti-religious propaganda with all the means at its command and reconstructs the whole of its
educational work, on the basis of scientific materialism.” - The Programme of the Communist International. Comintern Sixth
Congress 1929



“It is furthermore imperative to put the propaganda of atheism on solid ground. … It is necessary to produce a book on the church's struggle against science.” - Maxim Gorky (Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a
political activist), Letter from Gorky to Stalin, November 29, 1929, on the organization of antireligious propaganda



"We carry on and will continue to carry on propaganda against religious prejudices. ... The Party cannot be neutral towards religion and does conduct anti-religious propaganda against all and every religious prejudice because it stands for science, while religious prejudices run counter to science, because all
religion is something opposite to science. ... The Party cannot be neutral towards the bearers of religious prejudices, towards
the reactionary clergy who poison the minds of the toiling masses. Have we suppressed the reactionary clergy? Yes, we have. The unfortunate thing is that it has not been completely liquidated. Anti-religious propaganda is a means by which the
complete liquidation of the reactionary clergy must be brought about."- Joseph Stalin (the leader of the Soviet Union from the
mid-1920s until his death in 1953), Questions & Answers to American Trade Unionists: Stalin's Interview With the First
American Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia,1927



“Our program of antireligious propaganda consists of the masses not only breaking ties with churches but also overcoming elements of religious consciousness. We should
help them free themselves of all traces of religious consciousness, help them cultivate a scientific, materialistic understanding of the world to free them of all elements of religiosity-this is the goal of our program. To separate not only church from state, but also the individual from the church. This program is being fulfilled by propaganda, by organizing our Union of Militant Godless. It is carried out in literature, in public rallies, in our newspapers, magazines, books, brochures, theatres, movies, radio. … Our party program regarding religion shows that freeing the masses from religion is related to how successfully we will implement planning of all facets of economic life in our country. This means, when we are able to organize our economy so that every worker, every peasant will know that the result of his work depends only on his collective or individual efforts and does not depend on any other powers, only then will the masses be free from religion."- Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Conversation between IAroslavskii and an
American delegation headed by Sherwood Eddy, August 2, 1932, concerning antireligious propaganda



"A person cannot act correctly, cannot act in an organized manner as a Communist, as a Leninist, if his brain is poisoned by religion. In order to overcome the tremendous difficulties which confront us; in order to remold the world as the working class and the peasantry want it to be; in order to subjugate all the forces of nature and compel them to work for the welfare of mankind; in order to change social relationships from top to bottom; in order to eradicate war between nations, to exterminate poverty from the face of the earth—it is necessary that every person, that every peasant and worker sees things as they are, without the intervention of gods, saints, angels, fiends, goblins, were-wolves, and other spirits, good or evil." –
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (the head of the League of Militant Godless), Religion in the U.S.S.R., 1934



"The overthrow of religious authority and the eradication of superstition are going on everywhere."- Mao Zedong (the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China), REPORT ON AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PEASANT MOVEMENT IN HUNAN, 1927



"The world is nothing else but the material world in a process of unlimited development… Dialectical materialism's theory of movement is in opposition first of all with philosophical idealism and with the theological concepts of religion. The fundamental nature of all philosophical idealism and religious theology derives from their denial of the unity and material nature of the world; and in imagining that the movement and development of the world takes place apart from matter, or took place at least in the beginning apart from matter, and is the result of the action of spirit, God, or divine forces ... All of these doctrines which think about movement apart from matter are fundamentally incompatible with dialectical materialism..."- Mao Zedong,
DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM, 1938



"We will substitute materialism for philosophical idealism and atheism for theism."- Mao Zedong, Examples Of Dialectics, 1959



"Party organisations must direct their most serious attention to the improvement of atheist propaganda. Anti-religious propaganda must be more offensive, combatant, more direct. .
."- Mzhavanadze (at the 20th Congress of the Georgian Communist Party), Zarya vostoka, 26 January 1960.

An editorial in Nauka i religiya ("Science and Religion", a monthly Soviet atheist journal) during 1963 spoke of the current programme of communist construction as including: "the
complete and final overcoming of religious survivals and the liberation of people's consciousness from prejudices and superstition. Communism will be an atheist society, where the religious mist is finally dispelled, where people are delivered for
ever from fantastic religious representations."- Nauka i religiya
6, 1963, p. 2.



"In 1964, in accordance with the directive of the TSK KPSS [CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE USSR] "Concerning Efforts to Improve the Atheist Education of the Population," a required or elective course entitled "The Fundamentals of Scientific Atheism" was introduced at
institutions of higher learning. Specialized departments of scientific atheism were organized at 20 institutions of higher
learning. In 1973 a new textbook entitled Scientific Atheism was published. … Different kinds of extracurricular activities such as
the involvement of students in research on atheism, atheist discussion clubs and seminars, sociological surveys, atheistic
propaganda for the general public, and so forth could play a major role in the atheistic education of students. Atheist clubs,
which have been organized at several institutions of higher learning (the Leningrad and Daugavpils Teachers' Institutes, the
Tallin Poly technical Institute, and so forth), schools for organizers of alternative rituals, schools for young atheist lecturers, and so forth have become an effective tool for atheist education in a number of cities."- Report by Institute for Scientific Atheism, May 21, 1974, to the Central Committee on
increasing effectiveness of atheistic education among youth



"The task devolves on us to carry the revolution continuously ahead, to create and strengthen the new world-outlook in the
minds and consciousness of people, who should live and think like revolutionaries, who should explain the phenomena of life,
develop and settle relations among themselves, between themselves and society, no longer in the old way, no longer
according to the idealist, religious, bourgeois outlook, but according to the materialist, atheist, socialist world-outlook."-
Enver Hoxha (the Communist leader of Albania from 1944 to 1985, which was the first ever officially declared atheist nation
in the world), ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE ALBANIAN WOMAN, June 15, 1967



"The religious ideology clouds the human mind and paralyses their will for the transformation of nature and society. ... The
class struggle for the construction of socialism cannot be separated from the struggle against religion."- Enver Hoxha,
Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice, 1978



“All worship of supernatural forces can be called superstition. Religions are superstition … Marxism says, "religion is the opiate that lulls the spirits of people, and is the tool by which the exploiting class controls the people". Marxists all oppose religion in any form. … Among the masses, there are still some ancient practices stemming from superstitions … Solving them only needs patient persuasion and a long period of cultural, scientific, and atheistic education.”- The People's Daily (an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party), “Religion
and Feudal Superstitions”, (15 March 1979).

Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 11:29am On Jul 26, 2016
winner01:
I will not debate you because you do not need a debate, you need facts Lies.

And I have a whole lot for you.

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by ifenes(m): 11:53am On Jul 26, 2016
This is a new age, the one termed " The AGe of Aqurius" by those in the know. During this age, the old will die out but will not go down without a fight. Religion is dying out but will do so fighting. Religion ko Ja wo mo, brain ti take over ( I hope I wrote that well)

Ebuka and Winner01 represent the old energy, the age of Pisces, they are indeed doing a good job,but they will go down. It's normal.

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by ValentineMary(m): 12:46pm On Jul 26, 2016
Make I buy land for here first. cool grin

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by ValentineMary(m): 6:57pm On Jul 26, 2016
Well said OP. The problem with Winner01 and Kingebukasblog is that they think all atheist have a centralized dogma. So for them the voice or action of an atheist is the action and voice of all atheist. As for me, until they can put up an intelligent argument they would not attract my attention.

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Weah96: 9:53pm On Jul 26, 2016
99% of theists don't know what atheism is or means. Winner01 has a thread called Why do atheists hate God? He clearly does not understand what atheism is.

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by DeSepiero(m): 10:05pm On Jul 26, 2016
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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by kilo4sure: 10:21pm On Jul 26, 2016
stephenmorris:
did malvisguy,kingebukanaija and winner01 tell you this they hid it because they knew the truth but prefered to die of lies
Education
Main article: Education in the Soviet Union

Soviet pupils in Milovice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), 1985
Before 1917, education was not free in the Russian Empire and was therefore either inaccessible or barely accessible for many children from lower-class working and peasant families. Estimates from 1917 recorded that 75–85 percent of the Russian population was illiterate.

Anatoly Lunacharsky became the first People's Commissar for Education of Soviet Russia. At the beginning, the Soviet authorities placed great emphasis on the elimination of illiteracy. People who were literate were automatically hired as teachers. For a short period, quality was sacrificed for quantity. By 1940, Joseph Stalin could announce that illiteracy had been eliminated. Throughout the 1930s social mobility rose sharply, which has been attributed to Soviet reforms in education.[137] In the aftermath of the Great Patriotic War, the country's educational system expanded dramatically. This expansion had a tremendous effect. In the 1960s, nearly all Soviet children had access to education, the only exception being those living in remote areas. Nikita Khrushchev tried to make education more accessible, making it clear to children that education was closely linked to the needs of society. Education also became important in giving rise to the New Man.[138] Citizens directly entering the work force had the constitutional right to a job and to free vocational training.

The country's system of education was highly centralized and universally accessible to all citizens, with affirmative action for applicants from nations associated with cultural backwardness. However, as part of the general antisemitic policy, an unofficial Jewish quota was applied in the leading institutions of higher education by subjecting Jewish applicants to harsher entrance examinations.[139][140][141][142] The Brezhnev era also introduced a rule that required all university applicants to present a reference from the local Komsomol party secretary.[143] According to statistics from 1986, the number of higher education students per the population of 10,000 was 181 for the USSR, compared to 517 for the U.S.[144]
What you want to tell us here is that winner and kingebuka give one sided stories only. Well, this is all about playing the atheists' game. I'm sure you also believe all those nonsense about Christianity causing the dark ages, and how Christians are so dumb and took the world backwards, and impeded science or killed all scientists then, etc. Atheists never gives you the whole perspective of things when they tell their tales and you cheer them on, so why not winner 01? Even winner gives us more facts than atheists in most cases.
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Touchnot01: 10:27pm On Jul 26, 2016
kilo4sure:

Even winner gives us more facts than atheists in most cases.
Exactly! WHat facts could be better than actual names, year, figures, locations.

Dude got more reason than most atheists here.
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Weah96: 10:34pm On Jul 26, 2016
kilo4sure:

What you want to tell us here is that winner and kingebuka give one sided stories only. Well, this is all about playing the atheists' game. I'm sure you also believe all those nonsense about Christianity causing the dark ages, and how Christians are so dumb and took the world backwards, and impeded science or killed all scientists then, etc. Atheists never gives you the whole perspective of things when they tell their tales and you cheer them on, so why not winner 01? Even winner gives us more facts than atheists in most cases.

Winner01 knows what the argument is but prefers to play dumb. Listing atheists dictators who also happened to be communist leaders is willfully ignoring the argument.

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by kilo4sure: 10:52pm On Jul 26, 2016
Weah96:


Winner01 knows what the argument is but prefers to play dumb. Listing atheists dictators who also happened to be communist leaders is willfully ignoring the argument.
True, communism is an ideology, but atheism is the backbone of communism. When there is nothing above humans, then you can decide to make the state your god, or the president. No matter how atheists spin it, communism go hand in hand with atheism.
The point is atheists do this all the time, the OP even calls the con man Hitler a christian who was influenced by Christianity. So why is winner wrong when he shows how the communists were at least subtly influenced by atheism?

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:32pm On Jul 27, 2016
i am back from my ban ,i wanna thank the mods for lifting the ban incase i have offended anyone by insults or derogatory statements or broken certain rules on nairaland i apologise
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:33pm On Jul 27, 2016
what fidel castro did in cuba
Education
Main article: Education in Cuba

University of Havana, founded in 1728
The University of Havana was founded in 1728 and there are a number of other well-established colleges and universities. In 1957, just before Castro came to power, the literacy rate was fourth in the region at almost 80% according to the United Nations, higher than in Spain.[86][262] Castro created an entirely state-operated system and banned private institutions. School attendance is compulsory from ages six to the end of basic secondary education (normally at age 15), and all students, regardless of age or gender, wear school uniforms with the color denoting grade level. Primary education lasts for six years, secondary education is divided into basic and pre-university education.[263] Cuba's literacy rate of 99.8 percent[186][264] is the tenth-highest globally, due largely to the provision of free education at every level.[265] Cuba's high school graduation rate is 94 percent.[266]

Higher education is provided by universities, higher institutes, higher pedagogical institutes, and higher polytechnic institutes. The Cuban Ministry of Higher Education operates a scheme of distance education which provides regular afternoon and evening courses in rural areas for agricultural workers. Education has a strong political and ideological emphasis, and students progressing to higher education are expected to have a commitment to the goals of Cuba.[263] Cuba has provided state subsidized education to a limited number of foreign nationals at the Latin American School of Medicine.[267][268]

According to the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, the top-ranking universities in the country are Universidad de la Habana (1680th worldwide), Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría (2893rd) and the University of Santiago de Cuba (3831st).[269]
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:38pm On Jul 27, 2016
the fact one has a different belief from you dosen't make such person evil i am just trying to let the religious people know that
Main article: Healthcare in Cuba
Cuba's life expectancy at birth is 78 years.[186] Historically, Cuba has ranked high in numbers of medical personnel and has made significant contributions to world health since the 19th century.[86] Today, Cuba has universal health care and although shortages of medical supplies persist, there is no shortage of medical personnel.[270] Primary care is available throughout the island and infant and maternal mortality rates compare favorably with those in developed nations.[270]

Post-Revolution Cuba initially experienced an overall worsening in terms of disease and infant mortality rates in the 1960s when half its 6,000 doctors left the country.[271] Recovery occurred by the 1980s,[76] and the country's healthcare has been widely praised.[272] The Communist government asserted that universal health care was to become a priority of state planning and progress was made in rural areas.[273] Like the rest of the Cuban economy, Cuban medical care suffered from severe material shortages following the end of Soviet subsidies in 1991, followed by a tightening of the U.S. embargo in 1992.[274]

Challenges include low pay of doctors (still only US$60 a month, even after a 150% pay rise[275]), poor facilities, poor provision of equipment, and frequent absence of essential drugs.[276] Cuba has the highest doctor-to-population ratio in the world and has sent thousands of doctors to more than 40 countries around the world.[277] According to the World Health Organization, Cuba is "known the world over for its ability to train excellent doctors and nurses who can then go out to help other countries in need". As of September 2014 there are around 50,000 Cuban-trained health care workers aiding 66 nations.[278] Cuban physicians have played a leading role in combating the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.[279]

According to the UN, the life expectancy in Cuba is 78.3 years (76.2 for males and 80.4 for females). This ranks Cuba 37th in the world and 3rd in the Americas, behind only Canada and Chile, and just ahead of the United States. Infant mortality in Cuba declined from 32 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 1957, to 10 in 1990–95.[280] Infant mortality in 2000–2005 was 6.1 per 1,000 live births. Its infant mortality rate is 5.13.[186][264]

In Cuba, there is a need to import certain pharmaceutical drugs. Therefore, the Quimefa Pharmaceutical Business Group (FARMACUBA) was developed under the Ministry of Basic Industry (MINBAS). This group also handles the exporting of pharmaceuticals, and provide technical information for the production of these drugs.[281] Isolated from the West, Cuba developed the successful lung cancer vaccine, Cimavax, which now is available to US researchers for the first time, along with other novel Cuban cancer treatments. The vaccine has been available for free to the Cuban population since 2011.[282] According to Roswell Park Cancer Institute CEO Candace Johnson: "They've had to do more with less, so they've had to be even more innovative with how they approach things. For over 40 years, they have had a preeminent immunology community."[283]

In 2015, Cuba became the first country to eradicate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis,[284] a milestone hailed by the World Health Organization as "one of the greatest public health achievements possible".[285]
source -wikipedia
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 9:38am On Jul 30, 2016
it seems winner01 and kingebukanaija can't debate without memes thats why they run from great threads

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Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by KingEbukaNaija: 9:46am On Jul 30, 2016
Anyone who does not know communist leaders killed in the name of atheism is very ignorant


KingEbukaNaija:


Do you see why I said you are being disingenuous? You know fully well that Marx , Lenin , Engels ' ideologies were induced by the adversity caused by religion but you are trying to take away the blame on atheism . There is nothing political about persecuting and killing religious people . Mao , Stalin , Pol Pot were all driven by hate for the religious because of their atheistic ideologies . Just like the posts of these atheist bigots show , if given the puissance possessed by these potentates , they'd go on a killing spree .

Every atheist including you sees religion as an impediment to development . The religious will always be defiant about what he believes in and the atheist who has no moral compass will exterminate the religious because he thinks the religious are mentally unstable .

The hate in the atheist's head elicits the mockery , the bigotry , the killing . There is no difference between these atheist leaders and you people - the same animus drives you all .

Marx says religion affects social inequality : http://study.com/academy/lesson/karl-marx-on-religion-how-religion-affects-social-inequality.html

Lenin on religion

Vladimir Lenin was highly critical of religion, saying in his book Religion

[size=18pt]Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism.[/size]

In About the attitude of the working party toward the religion, he wrote

Religion is the opium 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.

Every communist state is an atheist state which is very intolerant of religion and religious are highly persecuted ! There is nothing political about killing because of their religion !

Communism is a conflation of Marxism and Leninism and it has been shown by their originators that these ideologies are inherently atheistic !

How do you feel now , isn't your face red with defeat and mortification undecided
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 9:49am On Jul 30, 2016
I BEGAN TO THINK PONDER FOR PROOFS OF GOD EXISTENCE and later found out god does not exist i mean both the christian and moslem gods do not exist because if they exist they won't need to be beleived into existence because according to the definition of belief which states ***trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something)****. for example why should i believe i have a mother when i know i have a mother and have seen her before is there anything to believe,she will still be my mother whether i choose to or not it doesn't change the fact that she is my mother so according to christians they need to believe their god exist which is wrong
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by KingEbukaNaija: 10:01am On Jul 30, 2016
stephenmorris:
I BEGAN TO THINK PONDER FOR PROOFS OF GOD EXISTENCE and later found out god does not exist i mean both the christian and moslem gods do not exist because if they exist they won't need to be beleived into existence because according to the definition of belief which states ***trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something)****. for example why should i believe i have a mother when i know i have a mother and have seen her before is there anything to believe,she will still be my mother whether i choose to or not it doesn't change the fact that she is my mother so according to christians they need to believe their god exist which is wrong

Stephenmorris , no one will fall your chicaneries . Did you travel outside the universe to ascertain there is no God ? Gnostic atheism is plainly foolish proposition on God's existence .

You clearly said you are a PANTHEIST and pantheism holds a different view about God . I challenge you to prove the divinity of the universe .
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:02am On Jul 30, 2016
Main article: Healthcare in Singapore
The Bowyer Block, Singapore General Hospital
Singapore General Hospital Museum in housed in the "Bowyer Block"
Singapore has a generally efficient healthcare system, even though their health expenditures are relatively low for developed countries.[184] The World Health Organisation ranks Singapore's healthcare system as 6th overall in the world in its World Health Report.[185] In general, Singapore has had the lowest infant mortality rate in the world for the past two decades.[186] Life expectancy in Singapore is 80 for males and 85 for females, placing the country 4th in the world for life expectancy. Almost the whole population has access to improved water and sanitation facilities. There are fewer than 10 annual deaths from HIV per 100,000 people. There is a high level of immunisation. Adult obesity is below 10%.[187]

The government's healthcare system is based upon the "3M" framework. This has three components: Medifund, which provides a safety net for those not able to otherwise afford healthcare, Medisave, a compulsory health savings scheme covering about 85% of the population, and Medishield, a government-funded health insurance program.[184] Public hospitals in Singapore have autonomy in their management decisions, and compete for patients. A subsidy scheme exists for those on low income.[188] In 2008, 32% of healthcare was funded by the government. It accounts for approximately 3.5% of Singapore's GDP.[189] source -wikipedia
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:04am On Jul 30, 2016
KingEbukaNaija:


Stephenmorris , no one will fall your chicaneries . Did you travel outside the universe to ascertain there is no God ? Gnostic atheism is plainly foolish proposition on God's existence .

You clearly said you are a PANTHEIST and pantheism holds a different view about God . I challenge you to prove the divinity of the universe .
it seems you have eyes but can't see my brother i said the judeo-christian and moslem god
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by Nobody: 10:06am On Jul 30, 2016
without lee kwan yew the great agnostic of singapore all this won't have been possible
Singapore traditionally has one of the lowest unemployment rates among developed countries. The unemployment rate did not exceed 4% from 2005 to 2014, hitting highs of 3.1% in 2005 and 3% during the 2009 global financial crisis; it fell to 1.8% in the first quarter of 2015.[247]


The government provides numerous assistance programmes to the homeless and needy through the Ministry of Social and Family Development, so acute poverty is rare. Some of the programmes include providing between SGD400 and SGD1000 per month to needy households, providing free medical care at government hospitals, and paying for children's school fees.[248][249][250] The Singapore government also provides numerous benefits to its citizenry, including: free money to encourage residents to exercise in public gyms,[251] up to $166,000 worth of baby bonus benefits for each baby born to a citizen,[252] heavily subsidised healthcare, money to help the disabled, cheap laptops for poor students,[253] rebates for numerous areas such as public transport,[254] utility bills and more.[255][256]

Although it has been recognised that foreign workers are crucial to the country's economy, the government is considering capping these workers,[257] as foreign workers make up 80% of the construction industry and up to 50% of the service industry.[258][259] To keep an effective tap on the issue of immigration and to also attract foreign talents at the same time, the Ministry of Manpower (MoM) issues employment pass under three categories viz: P1 Employment Pass for those individuals with monthly earning of $8,000 and up, P2 Employment Pass for individuals with monthly earning of $4,500–7,999 and Q1 Employment Pass individuals with at least a monthly earning of $3,000.[26 source-wikipedia
Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by KingEbukaNaija: 10:09am On Jul 30, 2016
stephenmorris:
it seems you have eyes but can't see my brother i said the judeo-christian and moslem god

You said you were a pantheist . Prove pantheism to be true . And why are you posting about Singapore ? A 2014 analysis by the Pew Research Center discovered that Singapore is the world's most religiously diverse nation . Only close to 20 percent of Singapore's population are not religious and irreligiosity is not atheism !

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