(September 22, 2015 at 7:20 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 22, 2015 at 6:16 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: Communist oppression of religion wasn't about promoting atheism; it was about promoting the State as the sole source of authority, guidance, and power. That wasn't militant atheism, but militant power dynamics. Theists pretty much never get this right because it's far more convenient to say, "Look! Stalin was an atheist and he was HORRIBLE!"That link was about state sponsored atheism not communism, there are religious groups that are communist. In fact, if one were to define biblical Christianity it could be defined as socialism, as they have much in common.
Never mind the fact that this is virtually the only example they come up with that isn't an outright misrepresentation (Hitler gets mentioned a lot, but he was Christian). Never mind the fact that religious people (some even claiming to be deities themselves) likely comprise the vast majority of history's most brutal rulers. Never mind that religious violence is far more typical and rampant than atheist violence. Never mind that atheists make up less than 1% of prison populations even though they comprise up to 23% of the general, American populace. Never mind any of that...atheists are bad people, and militant atheists are just like Stalin.
Fuck off with that shit.
Marx, Lenin and Stalin however were all atheists. Are you so naive to Think that their atheism had no bearing on their political ideology? Stalin is attributed with a estimated body count of between 20-60 million, I defy you to find one religious figure who tops that....
God. Numerous times.
You're very bad at this.
