Catholic ping!
In other words, the people of Cuba and North Korea are "living very well."
I guess that's what passes for "reason" in the world of the faithless.
Outside of Communism/Marxism (which is completely incompatible with human nature) what atrocities have atheists been responsible for?
Hmm, how many of those unbelievers are “living well” enough without God?
The North Koreans perhaps? Maybe the holdover Russian and Chinese communists?
Look at history’s most prolific atheist leaders. Lenin, Stalin et al, Mao. They had a great opportunity to demonstrate how well Godless people can live and what it takes to lead them.
Is there a majority atheist nation or people governed by an officiallly atheist government that is “living well”?
The Pope writes an encyclical attacking atheists, the atheists respond, and yet it is somehow the atheists to blame ?
That’s a twisted viewpoint.
Let the Pope say what he likes about atheists, even to smearing them with the Communist and Socialist atrocities in history. As though Communists and Socialists somehow represent all atheists.
But don’t complain if they respond with the atrocities of Catholicism — 1,000 year of killing from the Crusades to Hitler.
What would an atheistic organisation know about reason, anywise?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Where are the enemies of our Hitler youth? They are the religious fanatics who still today fall on their knees with wistful looks directed upward, who spend their time attending churches and praying. We, as Hitler boys, can regard only with contempt or derision young people who still today run to their ridiculous Evangelical or Catholic clubs to give themselves up to eminently superfluous religious reveries.Looks to me like Hitler would have felt at home with today's atheists. Interesting. So let's quit playing the Hitler card. It's unbecoming of a conservative. Leave that to the leftists.
While I agree with the Pope’s statements here against atheism/19th and 20th century socialist movements, I, as a Protestant, disagree with the assumption of Roman Catholicism as the religion founded by Christ.
The atheists love to point out Catholicism’s medaieval persecutions, etc., as proof that Christianity is equally bad as Communism. Truth is, Catholicism does not represent true Christianity. Were they to recognize this, their argument falls flat.
The Christianity of the New Testament (and the Christianity of the Fathers), is a very different Christianity from what arose centuries later, called Roman Catholicism. It is as incorrect to equate Roman Catholicism with true Christianity as it is to equate Mormonism with true Christianity. Roman Catholicsm is as much a cult as Mormonism is...of a much larger scale.