Atheism, faith and dictatoship
October 20, 2014 at 3:24 am
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2014 at 4:56 am by Darwinian.)
Hey!
New to this forum. What do you make of this?
-- on coming to power the Nazis closed down atheist and freethought organisations and Hitler regularly spoke, both in public and in private, of his contempt for atheists."
"We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany."
http://www.quora.com/Was-Hitler-an-atheist
Could it be that atheism actually protects against dictatorship since in its core is an idea of challenging faith and beliefs.
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New to this forum. What do you make of this?
-- on coming to power the Nazis closed down atheist and freethought organisations and Hitler regularly spoke, both in public and in private, of his contempt for atheists."
"We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany."
http://www.quora.com/Was-Hitler-an-atheist
Could it be that atheism actually protects against dictatorship since in its core is an idea of challenging faith and beliefs.
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