Right there, there are huge flaws in your
argument.
Since it's about 2 in the morning here, I'm
not going to go through all of them right now. I plan to go to bed right
after this. In the morning I'll have more energy to debate this
out.
But as for
Hatred and Contempt
Despotic Political Regimes
Human Rights Violations
Religious and Ethnic
Suppression
Spread of Weapons
Clashes
The Communists were guilty of practically
every single one of these and they were an atheistic regime.
Your claims that religion is the source of
every problem is flawed. Atheistic societies can show the same
problems.
As for Less Education; the communists often
got rid of Intellectuals, well Stalin did. Intellectuals are smart enough
to challenge authority and say "hey, that's bullshit!". Stalin didn't like
being told he was full of shit.
As for unsustainable population growth,
populations grow rampant all the time without any method of controlling
it. Then you end up with more people than food and people die off in a
famine. The Chinese figured out ways around this by limiting the number of
kids a family could have.
Disregard for human life is a characteristic
of any dictatorial regime, which the communists were. They had little
regard for human life. Let me remind you that Stalin had like 27,000,000
people excecuted.
As for increased pollution, that is a result
of certain technological advancements. Burning fuel produces
pollution. When we first developed internal combustion engines we didn't
realize that the pollution had any effect. Now that it does we have
emission standards. Cars have to be able to meet these emission
standards.
As for global warming and thinning ozone; we
didn't know how much damage we were doing, by the time it was taken seriously,
the damage was extremely significant.
The reason that we didn't realize it was
plain ignorance. We didn't know any better. And the other reason was
stupidity; we were warned and we didn't listen to the warnings, but false alarms
sound all the time. When people cry wolf enough and we don't see a wolf,
we begin to disregard any claims of a wolf-sighting.
I know, you'd like to claim every problem on
earth is related to religion; I however would like to claim some of it is due to
plain old human nature. Eliminate religion, and we'd still have problems
anyway.
- S*****
