Showing posts with label mental illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mental illness. Show all posts

Sunday, January 01, 2023

Reppert's Atheistic Argument for Violence


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Victor Reppert recently posted the following blog post, which I quote in its entirety.
An atheistic argument for violence:
1) Atheism is true, and so obviously so that religious believers must be insane.
2) Insane people can do outrageous things.
3) The people who promulgate belief in God are putting other people's sanity in danger.
4) Even if we have to forcibly stop them from doing so, we can prevent them from leading other people on the road to insanity, and hence possibly outrageous actions.
5) Therefore, the use of force in the name of suppressing religion is justified.