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Reply to "Refuting the myth that hitler, stalin and pol pot were atheists"

Sorry, although trained as an orthodox priest, Stalin (Dzhugashvili) was definitely an atheist.  I suggest you research some his anti-religion rants.  True, to engender patriotic feeling amongst the populace, he re-instituted religon during WWII (the Great Patriotic War), going so far as to revive refering to the Soviet Union as "Holy Mother Russia."  It was simply a cynical ploy to inflame the population against the Germans.  Many Russians volunteer to fight on the German side.  (At Omaha beach, the first soldiers my father encountered was a Panzer unit with Russian personnel.) After the war, Stalin returned to the USSR as an official atheist state, although churches were allowed to exist as arms of the state.   Many priests were actually KGB agents.

 

Hitler was not an atheist.  He supported a syncretic religion -- one race, one nation, one leader -- based upon the Aryan's as the superior race. Over 900 hundred Catholic priests were killed at Dachau.  During the Nuremburg trials, examination of German plans show they planned to exterminate the Christian religion -- Catholics, first.  So, Hitler, was not an atheist, but not a Christian, either. I suppose he was a deist, with himself as the diety.

 

For Pol Pot, the issue is mixed.  He certainly was anti-Christian, destroying the beautiful Cathedral in Cambodia's capital.  He slaughtered numerous buddhist priests, as well.  A few buddhists tell me its possible to be atheist and a buddhist as Buddha wasn't a god.  So, a toss-up, at best.

 

Ho Chi Minh was definitely an atheist, as was mao.

 

Atheism is simply a belief system adopted by human beings.  It can no more prove its premise, than can the world's religions with absolute assurance.  Although if any of the relligions are true, we may find out post-life.

 

Humans in the name of religion, anti-religion and for many other causes have slaughtered each other with gaey abandon.  Whether the problem lies within the human soul/psyche, sinful nature or what, is the question.

 

 


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