Would you support an Atheistic Theocracy?

[GenMarshall]

Results are kind of lopsided, aren't they? Not a single person religious or not supports an Athiest theocracy. And no one has even picked the radioactive monkey option yet!

Well, it looks like Perfection voted that he is a closet theist and does support an Atheistic Theocracy! .

 

[tomsnowman123]

There's no such thing as a good theocracy.

 

[Perfection]

Well, it looks like Perfection voted that he is a closet theist and does support an Atheistic Theocracy! .

I'm a Baptist trapped in a skeptic's body.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Of course not.

 

[Millman]

Sorry if I'm repeating someone as I don't have time to read everything. I'm sure I'm missing out on good posts though.

Why not be for a government that helps people simply believe in themselves for themselves. I wouldn't call it atheism, but generally most people feel life always needs to be special, so it is popular to stick something popular onto the issue of the day, religion being the oldest subject. Why not believe in yourself because just to belive in yourself. For most of us, I assume it's too difficult to be that simple.

Thanks to modern science though, despite any belief besides facts, we know why we hurt nowadays that couldn't have been explained before.

 

[warpus]

I would suggest a bit of reading about the history of the Russian Orthodox Church during the Communist era of Russia.

Oh, I know plenty about it, I just think that "Atheistic Theocracy" is a very poor label for the Soviet Union.

 

[Tee Kay]

Atheistic Theocracy? You mean like Stalin's USSR or Kim's DPRK? No thanks.

 

[warpus]

Atheistic Theocracy? You mean like Stalin's USSR or Kim's DPRK? No thanks.

Guys.. Show me one example of somebody credible calling the USSR an atheistic theocracy (ie. not some random bum on the street) and I promise I'll stop laughing.

 

[nihilistic]

Why would athiests care so much about a religion to set up what is essentially an reverse theocracy? Why give a damn what other idiots choose to believe in?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

There have been antireligious states, it is a historical fact,. Maybe it is not proper to call them an atheistic theocracy, but it is a useful analogy. Anyways, I would want only to live in a secular state. I wouldn't want to live in an "atheist theocracy", or a Muslim theocracy, or even a Mormon theocracy.

 

[nihilistic]

Atheistic Theocracy? You mean like Stalin's USSR or Kim's DPRK? No thanks.

That's debatable. Those communist and autocratic regimes' most defining features are that they are communist and autocratic, not their policies towards religion. Otherwise you could say the same for Mussolini's Italy (and perhaps Hitler's Germany) and the Catholic Church.

 

[greenpeace]

I said radioactive monkey, but I would have said we shouldn't have an atheist democracy because I don't know if being Buddhist, in you opinion, would be atheist or not (if it just said no or yes I would have said no).
Nobody should be prohibited from practicing religion.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Guys.. Show me one example of somebody credible calling the USSR an atheistic theocracy (ie. not some random bum on the street) and I promise I'll stop laughing.

Could the situation in the OP be likened to that of the Soviet Union?

Obviously, USSR wasn't an "atheistic theocracy," but it's stance toward religion was officially atheistic, was it not?

 

[Millman]

If only we knew/had known better.

 

[newfangle]

Baldness is not a haircolour.

 

[GenMarshall]

Otherwise you could say the same for Mussolini's Italy (and perhaps Hitler's Germany) and the Catholic Church.

Hey! Lay off the Roman Catholic Church!

 

[Perfection]

Hey! Lay off the Roman Catholic Church!

Why are they off limits? What makes them above criticism?

 

[newfangle]

About a gagillion dollars. They are the most successful corporation ever to exist.

 

[Perfection]

About a gagillion dollars. They are the most successful corporation ever to exist.

well, until I get a good share of that gagillion dollars, I'm gonna keep on criticising them.

 

[Trajan12]

There can be no atheistic theocracy

#1. Atheists wouldnt commit to it(No pun intended)

#2. The very word theocracy, carries the theo prefix meaning, pertaining to a certain religion.