RE: Communist murder of the religious: Not atheism's fault
July 7, 2012 at 2:04 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2012 at 2:04 pm by cratehorus.)
(July 7, 2012 at 1:54 pm)KnockEmOuttt Wrote:Why not? You blame christianity for what the Nazi's did don't you?(July 7, 2012 at 1:47 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Hitler was...fuck, that's a complicated story. Atheist he most definitely wasn't. Pseudopagancatholic would be the best way to describe him but it's a generalization. He, Pol Pot, and Mao are others I'll have to tackle later but the story is almost the same with them.
Still, to blame all atheists for their crimes is just plain absurd. And yet I see/hear it done all the time. It's such a cop-out.
The only thing we should blame a movement on, is what it was based on, and what THE PEOPLE involved "thought" it meant. The Nazi's were christians, and the Communists were atheists. You might describe them as special kinds of christians or atheists, but that's what they were. It doesn't matter what Hitler, or Stalin, or what any others leader's PERSONAL beleifs were, it ONLY matters what the collective groups opinions were.
