We didn't talk about right or wrong but silly.
Promoting a century-and-a-half-old wrong idea looks pretty silly to me. You want to revive phlogiston, too, maybe?
is not exactly the battle cry under which you can unite people and get them to adopt a new moral framework.
That's a good thing. I am highly suspicious of ideologies which want people to adopt new moral frameworks, especially if it involves battle cries.
It also has the problem of not telling people who want to know what they should do what they should do.
That's a feature, not a bug.
Socialist governments did make a greater effort to push back religion and make people atheists
Oh yes, they certainly did. I take it, you approve of these efforts?
Oh yes, they certainly did. I take it, you approve of these efforts?
That question indicates being mindkilled. I happen to be able to discuss issues like that without treating arguments as soldiers.
Discussing cause and effects is hard enough as it is without involving notions of approval or disapproval.
The implication that somehow socialism isn't responsible for spreading atheism in Europe because socialist used some immoral technique is a conflation of moral beliefs with beliefs about reality.
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