The Dangers of Secularism

Atheism doesn't assign any kind of moral code to its followers, as most religions do. It's just a belief regarding the status of gods, it neither condones nor condemns murder, war etc. I doubt that any of the atrocities that Stalin committed can be tied directly to his lack of faith in any gods.

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the point is that secularism is just as prone to evil as a religious culture.

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By itself, a person's belief or lack of belief in a god isn't going to do any harm. No more harm than the belief that Pepsi is better than Coke.It's only when (for example) either secularism is mixed with Stalinism or faith is mixed with a literal interpretation of the Old Testament that there's a danger. So on the one hand, an atheist has the same capacity for evil as a believer. But alternatively, secularism has nothing to do with acts carried out by its followers because it isn't associated with any moral code, whereas Christianity is.