When a statement is made that atheists don't need to bridge the gap between themselves and the horrific social consequences of communism in the historical past because they share atheism. Then spend the majority of their time pointing that out they are not communist repeatedly.
The only reason I need to keep repeating that I'm not a communist is because certain people keep on insinuating there somehow is an inherent connction between atheism and communism.
There isn't. So I can only keep addressing that accusation by pointing out that there isn't. What would you have me do otherwise?
I keep on explaining how there's nothing in atheism that leads to communism, and you people keep on coming back implying the opposite.
So I can only keep on repeating myself.
That's not on me. That's on you, not listening and continueing repeating the same mistakes.
Two things come to my mind. A quote paraphrased from Shakespeare, "thou doth protest too much" and having a legitimate condemnation of the societal behaviors, Laws, justice systems of those events in the past.
"thou keep on accusing even after having been explained how thou areth incorrect", sounds more like it.
You keep on drawing faulty connections between atheism and communism, and I will just keep on explaining how that is incorrect.
Again, what do you want me to do?
Should I just leave your faulty accusations up there, unchallenged?
What good will that do?
You see although it would be harder to prove that it was atheism that led to such an horrific outcome in historical world events, it is rather obvious that atheism was impotent and incapable of stopping that from happening in the first place.
Why would you expect otherwise?
Did I claim otherwise?
Au contraire... I've repeatedly explained how atheism is NOT a set of doctrines, dogma's, rules, views, what-have-you. Atheism is NOT a worldview. It is just a word that tells you what specific worldview is NOT followed.
As I said: it's as empty a label as it gets. It doesn't tell you anything.
Consider having a word for people who don't play football.
All it would tell you is that they don't play football. It wouldn't tell you what sport they DO play.
It's much like the bridges between what is clearly in the the historical context scriptures and the conscience of modern day theists. You see, we, the you and I share similar beliefs, to paraphrase you, 'As in, I am an theist but not a polytheist. Polytheism isn't inherent to theism.'
I didn't claim polytheism is inherent to theism. It's a type of theism. The "poly" type. I don't see how this is relevant.