(January 20, 2015 at 8:50 am)Alex K Wrote: Now, was Stalin more brutal because he was not Christian? Maybe, maybe not; but be that as it may - do the theists here really want to argue that Christianity makes better dictators? Because it obviously doesn't make a better people.
Stalin was brutal because he was a psychopath and a paranoid one at that. Same goes for Hitler. Both had no empathy to speak of. And both had a pseudo religious cult built around their persons. They even admired each other. Even during their war.