[split] VckyRo pontificates about Communism (the kind with a big C)

[VyckRo]

A lot of Christians say that atheism, particularly Stalinism, has killed more people then religious conflicts. I wouldn't yet say that I am a full-fledged atheist, but is this true? PLEASE note that this question is not meant to offend anyone on these forums; I'm just looking for the truth on this issue.

Well, I assume you're thinking about Nazis and the communists, so let me point out why it would be wrong to conflate the killings committed in the name of either ideology with atheism.

Nazis- This one is easier, so I'll just say it. The Nazis weren't atheists. Granted, many of the higher-ups in the Nazi Party were adherents to a bizarre form of paganism, and the religion of Hitler himself is up to debate, but it's clear that as soon as they took power, they effectively banned anti-religious movements (surprisingly, even before the Nuremberg Laws), and it's clear that a big part of the public acceptance of such a raving anti-semite is due to the fact that Christianity made it acceptable to hate Jews for many centuries (remember Christians claiming that the Jews were responsible for Christ's death?)

Communism- Of course, all the brutal leaders of the Communist movements were atheists (like Stalin or Chairman Mao), but It would be an oversimplification to claim that their brutality is due to atheism. In essence, when there were persecutions, almost never were they solely against those who follow religion, but religious followers are usually seen as one of a long list of "enemies of the state."

Accidental I arrived at this post, I could not refrain myself not to answer!

It is typical for atheists, when this problem is mentioned to throw us a red herring in the face.

In the issue of Communism / Atheism Rev.Rye
he start by draging a smelly fish through the room "Nazis" I personally remember some discussion where atheist as the late Christopher Hitchens or the famous Richard Dawkins, were asked about communism or Stalin!
And they response that Hitler, Hitler was not an atheist
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I propose to return to the original sources:

The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/wo...may/13.htm

Socialism and Religion
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/wo...dec/03.htm
See also:
1)The Union of Belligerent Atheists or The League of the Militant Godless
2)Gosateizm

"Marx's philosophy" was based on some philosophical concepts that he took over from
Feuerebach and Engels

Ludwig Feuerbach believe that religion, depleted the man, and the faith in God, expresses the man weakness the poverty and the human slavery. So humanity must be liberated from this burden

And after Friedrich Engels, religion is the human authority for a capitalist regime.From these two concepts Marx, began to weave his ideology!

From that up to "Gosateizm" was only one step! The idea that the evil called "religion" must be stopped by any way led to the greatest atrocities in human history.
The obsession that if "we do not do something", and quickly, humanity will slip into a "dark age", obsessed the atheist of the French Revolution, Paris Commune, the atheist minds during the Cultural Revolution from China, the communist period in Russia ( see the example whit Albania) of the Mexican Constitution and anti-clerical laws from 1917 and the regime of Plutarco Elías Calles, the history of the atheistic regimes (state Atheism) is one of the bloodiest in human history.