Alvida wrote:
Propaganster wrote:
Someone? Well, I would take a bullet for you. smile.gif 
Well that's very decent. I got your back too. smiley: happy

I asked you earlier to define ''Democracy.'' That began with ''a mere word (...).' Of course, I would not expect anyone to be prepared to die for a 'mere word.' But ''Democracy'' is a bit more than that to me. smile.gif
Well for example, if life for the average person was actually better under the dictator's rule (even if only because the country wasn't in turmoil due to war, terrorism and mass displacement) than it goes on to be under supposed democratic rule which proves to be more oppressive in terms of everyday freedoms, what meaning and worth does the word 'democracy' have then?

Under a dictator's rule, the lives of some will invariably be made miserable. Some may still have a 'decent' life under a dictatorship, even a good one, but what does it say that they are silent in the face of the mistreatment others will suffer through? Dictators pretty much invariably define a group that they oppress more so than the general population - the ''I am not free, but I am 'more free' than (such and such)'' peoples in this country, so it's okay bit.

Democracy is, in some manner, specifically that - Everyday freedoms. But what I most associate with ''democracy'' as an idea, a concept, is the Right of Dissent. That right, and the freedoms that come with it, is worth dying for. If not, than nothing and no one is worth dying for in my view.

Well not believing in god is itself a belief.
Hmmmm.. no. 

Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao, they did have a doctrine, which included an active intolerance and hostility to religion, and the belief that moulding a new nation without religion was the way forward.
Hmmmm.. no. For one, as I've already stated, their ''doctrines'' served as State (imposed) religions. Of course, that was going to be ''intolerant and hostile to religion'' because religions are intolerant of other religions and at times hostile towards them.

what we do know is that none of (Stalin's) actions included promoting deism as Russia's new religion.
 Hmmmm... I don't ''know'' that but I'll let you think about it for a while. smiley: wink

  

Sometimes, standing for what you believe means standing alone