No I am sorry wrong again, I said all Relgions lead to non critical thinking, and lack of rationale and reasoning, and a belief in fairy tales. I also said that fanatical religions or fanatical religious people that spring from religions are the cause of great harm to people in general in our societies.
Then you wanted to show that one religion was worse than another if one killed more people, as if somehow the religion that killed less was not harmful in the same manner as the other, and is somehow better, or kinder, which is nonsense.
You and others then counter and deflect by saying that Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot were atheists and therefore atheism drove them to do what they did and that somehow that atheism is the greater evil or what ever such non sense. I am saying that they were not atheists, and in that link (which I am sure you didn't read) gives numerous famous quotes by all 3 stating their religious reasonings for doing what they did in the deaths of so many, not to mention that Stalin was a friggin ordained priest and was never ex-communicated. But clearly your not going to read any link I post with any facts because you have your mind made up, and aren't not interested in looking at historical facts.
Round and Round we go where you stop nobody knows..!
Originally Posted by Stan.Dupp
The fundamental error in your premise, Stan Duplicitous, is that you only recognize and ascribe evils to the "religious" when extant evidence reveals that the "a-religious" are equally capable of evil. Therefore, it's not "deflection" to point out to you that your whole premise is wrong, Stan Duplicitous: "atheists" have committed autrocities as great as or greater than any you can ascribe to the "religious". That's a fact!
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ceaușescu, the Kims and Pol Pot were atheists, and Hitler was a-religious, Stan Duplicitous, and your continuous denial will not change those facts. BTW, Stan Duplicitous, have you read all of these books:
Bullock's
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
Toland's
Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography
Fest's
Hitler
Speer's
Inside the Third Reich
Trotsky's Russian Revolution
Pomper's
Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power
Have you troubled yourself to read any of Lenin and Trosky's polemics promoting atheism, Stan Duplicitous?
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This was a belt buckle that was standard issue uniform for all Nazi soliders, and it says "Gott Mit Unus" which means God with us.
Originally Posted by Stan.Dupp
That's "Gott Mit Uns", Stan Duplicitous.
We Got mittens, too!
In World War I, on all equipment issued to the troops of the Imperial German Army was inscribed the Motto “Gott Mit Uns !”, which translates literally as “God with US”
This Motto indicates even a little more passionate belief than “Wir Recht haben”, (literally “We have RIGHT!”)
No, WW I was so much more important than just a matter of “Right “ and “Wrong”. The fervor and fury of the German fighting man was expected to be at the level of, not only killing the enemy when necessary, but also the fervor and fury of the German fighting man was to reflect the fact that GOD not only approved the killing of Tommys, HE demanded that they be DESTROYED UTTERLY (and would award the worthy soldier who carried out the Divine will, with heaaven.)
The story I read was that in the trenches of WWI, the Germans would work themselves up before an offensive. They would stand together like a football huddle and roar,
“GOTT MIT UNS!”, “GOTT MIT UNS!”
Tommys of the British army, waiting in their trenches for the German onslaught, would often be heard to reply , “Yes,yes, we got mittens,too!”
http://open.salon.com/blog/token/201...ot_mittens_too
BTW, Stan Duplicitous, Hitler also employed this motto:
Translated "Arbeit Macht Frei" means: "Work makes (you) free."