Racist atheism is a particularly venomous form of atheism that can be extremely destructive both to the adherent and to those around him.
Hitler and Stalin were racist atheists who seized power and then slaughtered millions of people. Yet rather than acknowledge how morally evil racist atheism is, atheism refuses to condemn it as an affront to God.
Several, though not all, of the young mass murderers of the 21st century may have been influenced by racist atheism, and committed crimes based on it.
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@Flanders
Think of those far-right reddit atheists who think that islam wants to control the world and that Christians are mentally ill. The ones that call New Atheism and Atheism+ Nazis for having some self control. The ones that are responsible for atheism being a dirty word like Feminist or Bisexual.
It appears that Andy has actually invented something that exists. A shock, I know.
Is this some bizarre method of trying to convince people that a woman should remain at home ad a housewife? By convincing them that your idiocy is a result of your mother working and not being a stay-at-home mother? Well, to clue you and your mom in. We think it's just because of the shitty upbringing you got from your parents warped view. Nothing more.
I see Stalin more as an opportunist than a true racist, using any popular prejudice to get the support of his ignorant base. He certainly didn't care how white the Karelians were. And, if the Church had supported him, he'd have been a Christian.
Question: Why did Stalin allow St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow to still stand? You FAIL.
Question: Why did Stalin, in his purges, have fellow Atheists - including Georgians - killed? You Fail II.
Question: If, as you claim, Hitler was an Atheist ...:
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...I think you can guess the rest. Thus you FAIL III, and have struck out, Andy Schaftafly.
"...atheism refuses to condemn it as an affront to God."
Well, yeah. We don't believe in any gods.
There are plenty of us that will call what Hitler and Stalin did "evil", though. Not that it has anything to do with atheism in any way.
Name one mass murderer who killed in the name of atheism. I fucking dare you, Andy. Despite the oft documented fact that Hitler was a Catholic, neither he nor Stalin killed in the name of furthering reason. Both had other ideologies that merely replaced religion.
You are such a cunt.
Another one of those "Fascist dictators could not possibly be TRUE Christians, therefore they were atheists and committed atrocities, ergo all atheists are at risk of being megalomaniacs" posts from a Christian who regularly gets off on banning people from his website while he entertains the notion of editing his little belief book to appeal to conservative wingnuts. Did I leave anything out? Oh, and Andy, Your Mama!
Hitler was such an atheist the only people who knew he was an atheist were his closest political allies. And I don't know if he could even be called an atheist, he strikes me more as someone who lost their faith but desparately wishes they still had it.
Stalin doesn't strike me as a typical racist, either, he seems to be someone so deeply paranoid that entire ethnic groups could be blamed as enemies--he was from an ethnic minority, after all. And the ethnic groups that suffered most ended up often being the ones which he was at war with, like the Germans and Finnic minorities.
It does bug me that some people on this site try to represent Hitler as Christian when he clearly wasn't one in his personal life and he used it mainly to gain power. And representing Stalin as Christian is just stupid, considering he used religion for the same reasons as Hitler but he was even more obviously an atheist.
Conservapedia is still spewing bullshit as always, though.
For all their crowing about state atheism, all leaders of the USSR (which was not a communist country, but I digress) were more than happy to use the Russian Orthodox Church and especially the Patriarch of Moscow as a propaganda tool. It's Schlafly, though, so what else would you expect than stuff that's not even wrong?
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