Stormbringer's Thunder

"I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would would bulldoze Mecca - or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwedagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan." — Richard Dawkins  Buona sera. Atheists tell us that they want everyone to live together in peace, love and grooviness under the benevolent banner of "reason". Of course, it would be a dictatorship under their control, but nobody has anything to fear from intellectually superior and morally pure people, right? Wrong. If you believe that atheists are intellectually superior and morally pure after all I have shown you here, there's something seriously wrong with your thinking bone, capice? I put it to you that the above quote from Richard "Daffy" Dawkins is not a mistake, that he is not uninformed, but that he is lying. The easiest place to find examples of what atheists are like when they gain power is the former Soviet Union.

Buon giorno. Wow, look at this! Persecution of Christians may be banned ! Oh, wait — April 1988, Gorbachev was in power in the Soviet Union. "Mistakes made with regard to the church and believers in the 1930s and the years that followed are being rectified. Our newspapers and magazines write about this with candor and objectivity," he said. In his first formal reception of Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pimen, Gorbachev also said believers "have the full right to express their conviction with dignity" and pledged the state would not interfere, according to the official Tass press agency. Yeah, sure. It's on the books to have freedom of religion in post-Soviet Russia, but who reads the books ? Sure, it's not as intense (right now) as in atheist and Islamic countries, but persecution still exists. And I wonder with the way that atheists and "humanists" keep challenging to interfere with the free exercise of religion in America ...