Religion
In reply to the discussion: The dictionary is wrong – science can be a religion too [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Like any idea, there are those that claim to base their ideas on science, and those that actually are. The problem is not with the atheist or scientist per se, especially since, as has been repeated ad nauseam, atheism is not a creed in and of itself. The danger comes in when people use their interpetation of atheism and science, and make a whole bunch of constructs that have no more basis in fact than any myth that crawled out of Jerusalem. Take Ayn Rand's disciples, offically atheist, but they have a bunch of ideas about morality and economics that are just as capable of killing people as any other myth. The Soviets were nominally scientific, nominally athiest, but again, take one look at history, and they took their beliefs places that Karl Marx might not have even stepped near, or at least made him state some variant on his famous "I am not a marxist" line.