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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

This is not a shitpost, merely a shit post.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

Yeah they have, I did it last week ffs.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

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

But not stoned!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours 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] 43 points 21 hours 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] 11 points 19 hours 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] 11 points 18 hours 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] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

Because they use other weapons?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours 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 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Where can I? Asking for a friend

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours 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] 17 points 19 hours 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] 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This isn't even a good shitpost

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours 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] 1 points 6 hours ago

Where did you hear that had happened

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

forcing Tibetan children to murder their parents

Gonna need a source on that one, chief.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Fairly common knowledge. Even portrayed in movies like Kuru and Seven Years in Tibet. Unfortunately the whole thing has been wrapped up in lots of misinformation. The Tibetans have both accused China of atrocities and claimed that they didn't happen. Outsiders looking in on this could argue that they were trying to appease the Chinese to maintain the paltry religious autonomy granted by the Seventeen Point Agreement. Here is a link to a PDF from the Tibetan Bureau in Geneva listing their atrocities. It is worth noting that even these claims are impossible to verify. The Chinese government has worked tirelessly to scrub the world knowledge base, and most search companies are more than willing to cooperate with such large governments with huge resources. Additionally, sensationalism is equally attractive, meaning it is easy and tempting to over report and exaggerate war crimes.

But the simple fact remains that May Zedong openly opposed religion and claimed that his annexation of Tibet was a "liberation" from what he called "religious oppression."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It's really ambiguous what they're talking about or what they even mean. Here are two things that could both be described as, "Forcing Tibetan children to kill their parents."

  • A Tibetan soldier volunteers to join a war, and through sheer chance, they learn that their parents are fighting on the other side of the battlefield. They ask to leave the front and their CO refuses - technically, they've been forced to kill their parents.

  • A communist agent abducts a family in the dead of night and hands the child a gun while putting a knife to their sister's throat and telling them if they don't kill their parents, they'll be killed, along with their siblings. This happens systematically across Tibet, and only Tibet.

They could be referencing the Cultural Revolution. A lot of shit happened during this period, including what you described. But to my knowledge, the struggle sessions and such were more the actions of the Red Guards, who were student led paramilitary groups, not the same as the People's Liberation Army that went into Tibet.

So like, what they said was, "the liberation army forced Tibetan children to murder their parents," but, what actually happened (so far as it's possible to connect that claim to anything in reality) was that the PLA failed to maintain control (although they did eventually succeeded in suppressing them) against young radicals denouncing their parents and subjecting them to public humiliation (the Red Guards also committed all sorts of atrocities during this time, I wouldn't be surprised if there were cases of children killing parents but I'm unaware of any specific cases). Which happened decades after the PLA went into Taiwan, which wasn't (to my knowledge) really a main area involved in the chaos.

And that's why I asked for a source.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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 22 hours 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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (12 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] 36 points 1 day 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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago

A fact check of this claim would be interesting.

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

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

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