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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This isn't even a good shitpost

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not even true. Like not even close. The Chinese liberation army forcing Tibetan children to murder their parents to "liberate" them from "religious oppression" is one example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

forcing Tibetan children to murder their parents

Gonna need a source on that one, chief.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think they are referring to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Kids publicly denounced, criticised and some even harmed their parents but we are not sure if they killed them. This was done to achieve several things. Destroying religious practices was a part of it.

Recommended book: The cultural revolution: a people's history, 1962-1976 - Frank Dikötter

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Where did you hear that had happened

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

TIL: you can only kill someone by throwing a rock if you are religious. Do not attempt otherwise, it will not work.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

also: there has never been a single person in history who followed the crowd even though they secretly didn't believe in a god.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I'm an atheist, and there are plenty of people I would stone to death if given the chance.

So if the number really is zero, it's probably due to a lack of opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

stoning is a particular method of public execution, so most rock-related deaths don't count

[–] Randomgal 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stalin and Mao would like to have a chat with your if you think this is true.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Tanked to dead, sent to concentration camps without due process... Sure.

But not stoned!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know about that dude, I've been given some pretty strong shit before. Definitely felt like I was dying.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Low effort, provocative, sorta correct but kinda not: the perfect formula to get some real low-level, unproductive flame wars going. Excellent shitpost.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

May not be stonings, but you've got the French Revolution, Stalin's purge during the Soviet Union and Cultural Revolution - all mass executions caused by Atheist states.

The Holocaust wasn't motivated by religion either- Actual bible-believing Christians were against it. The predecessor to our "progressive" Christians ("Christ of the culture" mentality)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea. Humans never needed an excuse for violence.

Or rather, we always found an excuse, religion is merely one of them.

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

I'm not so sure of that Christian version of "no true Scotsman", but it's true that religion is typically just a tool used by people with power to direct the people to violence, rather than the source of it.
But man is it an effective tool for that purpose.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I feel like this is one of those things where, even though there is a likelihood that you are right, you don't actually know that you are correct.

People are weird.

People are occasionally evil, especially towards weird people.

There's an entire possibility that atheists have stoned somebody to death, and since you're the one making the claim, I feel like you should be the one to scour every single instance of death in all of human history to verify your claim.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Because they use other weapons?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Yeah they have, I did it last week ffs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

This is not a shitpost, merely a shit post.

[–] Fenrisulfir 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s not true. Lots of drugs can kill you. Don’t know if they all count as ‘stoned’ though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Where can I? Asking for a friend

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Just walk around downtown asking for drugs. If you dont find any and the drugs don't kill you, someone probably will eventually.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

A fact check of this claim would be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Nah we just don't write fun stories about it when it happens.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just needs a slight tweak to be a little less historically inaccurate: Nobody has ever been "hunted for sport" by a Zoroastrian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Nah Persia got wild sometimes.

The guys you want are the Jains. They're supposedly the origin of the pacifist and global brotherhood messaging in Christianity, which is clearly at odds with just about everything else in the history of the religion.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But it is shit, which is kind of the point. Shitposts are usually poor-quality, provocative, or off-topic.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Humans climbed to the top of the food chain by throwing rocks and that was before gods. Everything was stoned to death by atheists in the day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dunno. There have been some pretty annoying people throughout history. Might be more accurate to say "for not being an atheist."

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not for lack of wanting to... Hooray for impulse control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Who’s to says pre-historic humans never did?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You wouldn't say that if you knew what I did in '99

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