Somebody earlier in this thread worried if Castout was okay. I'm starting to worry as well now, his last activity was 4 days ago:-?
The chances that he's one of the few killed are, well, almost nonexistent but still, maybe it's getting too hot out there and he's got to hide or something?:-?

You misunderstood. I said nothing about being an athiest. I was talking about his idea to abolish religion. Freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of worship, all out the window with any kind of ban like that.

Human nature is the root cause of any conflict or tension. Religion might provide a handy excuse but it'd happen in an atheist world too.

I had an interest in knowing the situation, but no negative vibrations now, he's probably much more with jobs and stuff

[QUOTE=Vendor;1594650]I agree to a point. If you study early religion, governments couldn't help but use it as a tool to control the masses, even christianity. Doctrines such as hell and torture hardly existed in the christian church until 400AD.
Properly translated you won't find this hell in the bible. Rome needed tools of fear and guilt to control the masses, so pagan doctrines were mixed with christian doctrine.

However, even if you snub out religion, other belief system would seek to fill the void. Even though I'm more agnostic these days, even atheism is a organized belief system, same as socialism, communism, ect. Seems we will always have some type of system, either worshipping God or man in some form.

In the end it's about power and as long as greed exist, someone will think of something.

yes, I think/hope you're right:yep:

I was more about the second sentence you wrote, where it reads: Shall we all go out and get Mao suits? ;)

Yep you misunderstood. My reference to Mao had to do with state control over personal beliefs, not the beliefs themselves. Deny God all you want and I would never call you a Maoist, but attempt to control the beliefs of others and Maoist would be one of the more gentle things i'd call you.

Anyone seen, heard, Castout recently :hmmm:

I think you are wrong here.

http://atheism.about.com/od/definiti...smReligion.htm
I am a atheist, but not organized in any way.
I am just not a theist.

Atheism is not an "ism" in itself. It is the absence of certain isms, namely those referring to theistic content.

It makes no sense to say that a glass that is emptied of the water in it, still is filled with something different if that something is just the same like the empty air around.

Edit:
Ah, I see the link provided by Fish says the same.

Got a message from him 2/01/11, said he had to go out to get a dvd to copy IL-2 for me hope he didn't get mugged:hmmm:

his last activity was on the 6th. The chances he got attacked are almost nonexistent but still... It does worry me a bit:-?

Castout updated his blog on February 12, 2011
hope he's fine:-?

Yes,we must keep our fingers crossed!