Originally posted by: Shad0hawK
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
He identified the nature of your fallacy by name. That is all he had to do to demonstrate the fallacious nature of your argument which remains fallacious as identified.
riggghhttt.
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But of course right. When your argument contains a logical fallacy it is falacious. That is the way it is. He named the form of your error and explained why it is wrong. Saying riggghhttt doesn't change anything. It just means you have no answer. His statement:
"This is a classic logical fallacy, essentially the
affirmation of the consequent fallacy. While Marxist communism implies atheism, atheism does not imply communism, and thus its absurd to blame atheism for the failures of communism.
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
There is no such animal as communistic atheism. It is a term of your own fabrication. You could as easily and meaningfully call it Red communism or sugar cube communism. It is an adjective without contextual meaning.
actually it is not my "fabrication" i posted the releveant part of the communist manifesto, perhaps you missed it?
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Here is your quote:
"There are,? said Marx, "besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.?
It is absolute gibberish to me. What this says at best is that if you believe in the BS of communism it will destroy all your other beliefs. Big deal. Like that's a real threat.
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yet you maintain that all communists are atheists which is equally fallacious and that being atheist is bad while you seem to have no problem with Rand.
i did not say that. i was referring to "communism" and again i posted the relevant potion of the communist manifesto. plus there are many who through threat of destruction or persecution are secretly theists.
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Well I am not worried about communist doctrine. It is just words on a page. It believers who know they are right that worry me. Communism is just a word. Don't worry about it. Words don't bite.
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
But the fact that Communism has incorporated atheism as one of its basic tennants does not prove that it is that tennant that is responsible for Communist militancy. Communists could as easily have claimed there's a Communist God.
but they did not. they claimed there is not one. they also assert that religion is counter-productive and needs to be abolished. being pragmatists they go about abolishing religion the most effective way possible, exterminating/persecuting the religious. we see this even today in vietnam, the christian montagnyards are at this moment being exterminated as an ethnic group because of thier religion.
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Yes but that has nothing to do with atheism. If they had declared a Communist God they would just be killing Christains and other religious people in the name of that. It's not what you believe that matters, it's feeling that what you believe is more important than other peoples' lives. This is a phenomenon particular to all religious believers encluding communists.
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
But what you call militant atheism is just miltant communism, another form of religion. You might as well argue that the reason we attacked Iraq is because we are a secular and therefore God separated, atheist state.
The reason all those millions died is because Communism is a religion not because atheism is one of its tennants.
what you are missing moonbeam is the fact any religious position..including(especially) atheism that become politcized(government policy) will eventually seek to exterminate or subjugate other views. in the case of communism no other view than the state sanctioned atheistic view is allowed, when atheism becomes the state religious viewpoint it is no different in this regard than any theocratic state that becomes abusive to other viewpoints. again this is not a mere logical conclusion on my part, it is HISTORY...verifiable in objective reality.
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But that is what I
am saying except that atheism itself is not a religion, communism is. And this is why we have a separation of church and state. We don't want people of religious faith in control because they have this certainty that what they believe is right. What you are missing is that it is believers who do this not people who don't believe. Atheists are not believers.
while christianity for example can say "well those atrocities committed by the catholic church were against 'real' christianity" jews and muslims can say the same thing about atrocities atributed to them, the atheist on the other hand does not have this luxury, because atheism tells us there is no moral lawgiver, thus no moral law other than what we make for ourselves. so the atheist cannot say what stalin and mao did was "wrong" but only agree or disagree on a personal level.
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But the atheist would say that is what you are really doing. You just are giving it a high faluting name. Also to claim to act in the name of religion and later say it wasn't the real deal is profoundly hypocritical. A logical person would conclude it is never the real deal.

But the Marxist also does that. "You have never really seen real communism." The common feature is that of belief and rationalization.
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also communism is not a "religion" it is a political and economic ideaology with atheism in corporated as it's religious viewpoint...BTW this is communism's definition as outlined per section 2 of the communist manifesto, not mine.
Hehe, it is a religion just like any other system of belief. And atheism is not a religion because it is non belief. And it is not a belief in non belief it is just non belief. And even if by some absurd feature of reality an atheist couldn't say that Mao is wrong, he could never act like Mao because how could he believe in the religion of communism.