(June 26, 2013 at 11:09 am)ShadowWolf1986 Wrote:(June 26, 2013 at 11:04 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Communism, not "atheism", is responsible for these atrocities.
As far as I'm concerned, Communism is a rival religion, complete with its scripture (Marx's Communist Manifesto), its so-called good-vs-evil ideology (capitalists are depicted as evil) and its prophecy (the unlikely worker's paradise). They were, like most religions, trying to kill off the competition.
I'll go out on a limb here. No country ever committed genocide for being too skeptical or thinking too critically. Anyone got any contrary examples?
The Communist government of China was/is Atheistic, and they killed millions upon millions in the great purges that performed to realize their goals.
Hardly - Mao was a virtual Godhead of the state with every citizen expected to have his little red book with them at all times.