RE: Fact, every single german nazi was a christian
August 14, 2015 at 4:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2015 at 4:05 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
I think they killed because they wanted their party's vision to come to fruition, and that anyone who stood in the way was an enemy -- hence Article 58 of their Penal Code, vaguely worded as it was.
Stalin certainly advanced the USSR's place in the world -- but at what cost! It's a lesson to men, the persecution of kulaks, the industrialization of prison labor in support of infrastructure development, and the foundation of the world's first terror-state, where the judiciary was harnessed not to the goal of justice, but rather the overarching needs of the state. Their atheism certainly had a role in that, insofar as they believed (correctly, in my view) that religion was (and is) a brake on man's progress. If their atheism was responsible for atrocities, and it apparently was according to what you wrote earlier, we atheists should certainly be wary of extolling their methods, morally repugnant as they were, alienating as they were.
Stalin certainly advanced the USSR's place in the world -- but at what cost! It's a lesson to men, the persecution of kulaks, the industrialization of prison labor in support of infrastructure development, and the foundation of the world's first terror-state, where the judiciary was harnessed not to the goal of justice, but rather the overarching needs of the state. Their atheism certainly had a role in that, insofar as they believed (correctly, in my view) that religion was (and is) a brake on man's progress. If their atheism was responsible for atrocities, and it apparently was according to what you wrote earlier, we atheists should certainly be wary of extolling their methods, morally repugnant as they were, alienating as they were.
