Think about it
Think about it
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This isn't even a good shitpost
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It's not even true. Like not even close. The Chinese liberation army forcing Tibetan children to murder their parents to "liberate" them from "religious oppression" is one example.
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TIL: you can only kill someone by throwing a rock if you are religious. Do not attempt otherwise, it will not work.
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also: there has never been a single person in history who followed the crowd even though they secretly didn't believe in a god.
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I'm an atheist, and there are plenty of people I would stone to death if given the chance.
So if the number really is zero, it's probably due to a lack of opportunity.
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stoning is a particular method of public execution, so most rock-related deaths don't count
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Stalin and Mao would like to have a chat with your if you think this is true.
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Tanked to dead, sent to concentration camps without due process... Sure.
But not stoned!
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I don't know about that dude, I've been given some pretty strong shit before. Definitely felt like I was dying.
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Low effort, provocative, sorta correct but kinda not: the perfect formula to get some real low-level, unproductive flame wars going. Excellent shitpost.
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I feel like this is one of those things where, even though there is a likelihood that you are right, you don't actually know that you are correct.
People are weird.
People are occasionally evil, especially towards weird people.
There's an entire possibility that atheists have stoned somebody to death, and since you're the one making the claim, I feel like you should be the one to scour every single instance of death in all of human history to verify your claim.
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Because they use other weapons?
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That’s not true. Lots of drugs can kill you. Don’t know if they all count as ‘stoned’ though
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Where can I? Asking for a friend
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Just walk around downtown asking for drugs. If you dont find any and the drugs don't kill you, someone probably will eventually.
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Yeah they have, I did it last week ffs.
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A fact check of this claim would be interesting.
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Nah we just don't write fun stories about it when it happens.
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This is not a shitpost, merely a shit post.
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But it is shit, which is kind of the point. Shitposts are usually poor-quality, provocative, or off-topic.
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Can a shitpost be off-topic on a shitpost community?
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Humans climbed to the top of the food chain by throwing rocks and that was before gods. Everything was stoned to death by atheists in the day.
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Just needs a slight tweak to be a little less historically inaccurate: Nobody has ever been "hunted for sport" by a Zoroastrian.
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Nah Persia got wild sometimes.
The guys you want are the Jains. They're supposedly the origin of the pacifist and global brotherhood messaging in Christianity, which is clearly at odds with just about everything else in the history of the religion.
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Not for lack of wanting to... Hooray for impulse control.
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I dunno. There have been some pretty annoying people throughout history. Might be more accurate to say "for not being an atheist."
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Who’s to says pre-historic humans never did?
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...yet.
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Stalin was an atheist and he was responsible for killing at least 6 million people.
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Yeah, but not with stones 🪨
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Important distinction
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Not directly. The conman Lysenko, originator of Lysenkoism was. Lysenkoism has nothing particularly to do with socialism/communism. Stalin didn't aim intentionally to create mass starvation in Soviet Russia. Nor did Mao in China, these were issues of understanding science which we taken for granted today but weren't well understood at the time.
Wikipedia:
Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin's regime were 20 million or higher.[5][6][7] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives was declassified and researchers were allowed to study it. This contained official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953),[8][9][10][11][12] around 1.5 to 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag,[13][14][15] some 390,000[16] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s,[17] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.[18] According to historian Stephen Wheatcroft, approximately 1 million of these deaths were "purposive" while the rest happened through neglect and irresponsibility.[2] The deaths of at least 5.5 to 6.5 million[19] persons in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 are sometimes included with the victims of the Stalin era.[2][20]
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