Quote Originally Posted by ObjectivistActivist View Post
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However, their justification for slaughter was of the same kind as that religion uses; they just substituted the word Society for the word God. In that sense, they cannot be said to be atheistic, or at least not properly atheistic in that they did in fact have faith and worship an indefinable entity greater than the individual (again, it was just called Society instead of God).

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Interesting, but taking that notion on board, aren't we all theists of some kind?

And, isn't it a kind of irony that one one thing theists and atheists (in the religion/anti religion sense) have in common is their belief that they are right and everyone else is wrong?