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Entry: I Confess: I Don't Understand Why Some Atheists Are So Angry Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/i_confess_i_dont_understand_why_some_atheists_are_so_angry#25972 Post contents: Insightful post. This hostility, I think, may have its roots in the late 19th century where the political dichotomy is set up: the intelligent (liberal progressives) versus the stupid (traditionalists). But even atheists like John Stuart Mill were circumspect in what they would say about Christianity, probably because they were living in a more civilized age. But almost extinct seem to be men like Cicero who, although agnostics, saw it a duty to praise publicly religion. I have often heard the "more people have been murdered in the name of Christianity" slogan more times than I would like to count. To all these people I refer the book Little Black Book of Communism*, especially the chapter on Mao, the atheist, who liquidated 65 million of his own people. But it's not as if reason will abate this hatred of Christianity. These people hate the West and its contributions (except science, which they believe sprung up and lives in a historical vacuum). We live in a barbarous age. Compare the beautiful churches (you mention) with the cinder-block monstrosities (used for schools, projects, government buildings) of the modern state, and ask yourself: who's more civilized? *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Book_of_Communism Sent at: 2008 07 06