(January 18, 2017 at 5:24 pm)Pulse Wrote:(January 18, 2017 at 5:12 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: Stalin was Eastern orthodox, was born one and died one. There was a period between 1924 and 1941 where he professed atheism, but he got rid of that when he needed the church.To say Stalin was a Christian is really dishonest, even Wikipedia describes his religion as " Atheism, formerly Georgian Orthodox", Ceauşescu launched a persecution of religion in Romania to implement the doctrine of Marxist–Leninist atheism, while Pol Pot banned religious practices in Cambodia. I am perturbed you deny history so readily.
Pol Pot was a strange blend of catholic and buddhist, born a buddhist and educated in catholic school. He never for one day gave up religion.
Mao was the only one who gave up any of what would traditionally be considered religions, but then again, he did try to build a religious cult with himself as the focus. He thought himself god.
Must try harder before you pin the sins of religious fucktards like yourself on atheists. Like finding some atheists, for example.
Again this information is all from Wikipedia.
The people you mention, Pol Pot, Stalin, Ceauşescu, etc, were first and foremost, totalitarian communist dictators. The mass killing that they were responsible for, are a result of that, not their disbelief in gods.
The first job, so to speak, of a totalitarian dictator, is to eliminate any group that might be an enemy, or a future enemy.
Oh, by the way...
There were approximately 50 million native Americans in North America before Columbus got here. By 1650, the population was 6 million.
What was the religion of the majority of the people that slaughtered millions of native Americans, I wonder?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.