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Religious apologists sometimes claim that atheists or secularists are trying to destroy religion. <ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/08/17/3295478.htm]</ref> This actually is true for some atheists but this view is more accurately called antireligion. However, a significant proportion of atheists have realized the impracticality of such a goal and aim rather to encourage religions to reform or to minimise their [[Religion is harmful to society|harmful effects on society]]. | Religious apologists sometimes claim that atheists or secularists are trying to destroy religion. <ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/08/17/3295478.htm]</ref> This actually is true for some atheists but this view is more accurately called antireligion. However, a significant proportion of atheists have realized the impracticality of such a goal and aim rather to encourage religions to reform or to minimise their [[Religion is harmful to society|harmful effects on society]]. | ||
{{quote|Godless regimes have always sought the eradication of | {{quote|Godless regimes have always sought the eradication of God with passionate zeal, deadly efficiency on a mass scale, and unspeakable cruelty.<ref>[https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/5-uncomfortable-facts-atheists-need-to-hear 5 uncomfortable facts atheists need to hear]</ref>}} | ||
{{quote-source|[...] new militant atheism [...] is not just anti-God but anti those who believe in God [...] Secularism feels it holds the default position in society, and new atheists are about destroying religious faith. It has been stated that 'scientists should do everything that can be done to weaken the hold of religion'.|[[John Lennox]]<ref>[http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news?newsaction=view&newsid=4167]</ref>}} | {{quote-source|[...] new militant atheism [...] is not just anti-God but anti those who believe in God [...] Secularism feels it holds the default position in society, and new atheists are about destroying religious faith. It has been stated that 'scientists should do everything that can be done to weaken the hold of religion'.|[[John Lennox]]<ref>[http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news?newsaction=view&newsid=4167]</ref>}} | ||
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{{quote-source|The church always wanted the destruction of its enemies; we, we immoralists and Antichristians, find our advantage in this, that the church exists.<ref>[http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/GotDamer.html]</ref> [...] Here are priests: but although they are mine enemies, pass them quietly and with sleeping swords! [...] Bad enemies are they: nothing is more revengeful than their meekness.<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1998]</ref>|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]}} | {{quote-source|The church always wanted the destruction of its enemies; we, we immoralists and Antichristians, find our advantage in this, that the church exists.<ref>[http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/GotDamer.html]</ref> [...] Here are priests: but although they are mine enemies, pass them quietly and with sleeping swords! [...] Bad enemies are they: nothing is more revengeful than their meekness.<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1998]</ref>|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]}} | ||
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[[Category:Secularism]] | [[Category:Secularism]] | ||