Even if Hitler was an atheist, it doesn't make all atheists evil. For every atheist dictator there are several christian or islamic dictators. Need I mention that Noriega and Marcos were both christians and brutal distators?
I think that these men were evil independant of their religion or lack of such. Saying that Stalin and Hitler (assuming he's an atheist for sake of argument) were evil dictators because of atheism is confusing causation with correlation.
Here is a great little article that will help you get over your misconceptions about Hitler's "atheism"
http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)
As for Joseph Stalin, he too has a Christian background.
Joseph Stalin was born poor on December 21st 1879 in Gori, Georgia. His father was a shoemaker who died during Joseph’s childhood. Joseph’s mother was a religious woman and knew that the only future hope for her son was for him to become a priest. This was one of a scant collection of occupations that would allow a child to climb out of poverty. She enrolled him at a seminary school, where his brilliance showed through and he earned a scholarship to Tiflis Theological Seminary. Although Joseph’s studies at the Seminary didn’t last long, his style of writing and speaking was influenced by his time there. In 1899 Joseph got involved with the revolutionary socialist party, Messame Dassy, and was expelled from the University for advocating socialist theory. This abruptly ended Joseph's religious education and may have been the reason for Stalin's widespread destruction of the Russian Orthodox Church during his reign.
Perhaps, if you looked at history more carefully, you would understand that these types of dictators undermine religion because of the power that they can get from it. A great source of untapped power.
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I suggest that you pick up a copy of Mein Kampf sometime and find out just how good of a Xian Hitler was. He even went to seminary.
Another LIE for JEBUS!
For anybody wanting to learn a little bit more about Hitler and his supposed atheism:
http://www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm
What's that large bauble hanging off Adolph Hitler's chest? Is it a Christian symbol?
Mr y.
Even if Hitler was an atheist, it doesn't make all atheists evil. For every atheist dictator there are several christian or islamic dictators. Need I mention that Noriega and Marcos were both christians and brutal distators?
I think that these men were evil independant of their religion or lack of such. Saying that Stalin and Hitler (assuming he's an atheist for sake of argument) were evil dictators because of atheism is confusing causation with correlation.
Here is a great little article that will help you get over your misconceptions about Hitler's "atheism"
http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)
As for Joseph Stalin, he too has a Christian background.
Joseph Stalin was born poor on December 21st 1879 in Gori, Georgia. His father was a shoemaker who died during Joseph’s childhood. Joseph’s mother was a religious woman and knew that the only future hope for her son was for him to become a priest. This was one of a scant collection of occupations that would allow a child to climb out of poverty. She enrolled him at a seminary school, where his brilliance showed through and he earned a scholarship to Tiflis Theological Seminary. Although Joseph’s studies at the Seminary didn’t last long, his style of writing and speaking was influenced by his time there. In 1899 Joseph got involved with the revolutionary socialist party, Messame Dassy, and was expelled from the University for advocating socialist theory. This abruptly ended Joseph's religious education and may have been the reason for Stalin's widespread destruction of the Russian Orthodox Church during his reign.
Perhaps, if you looked at history more carefully, you would understand that these types of dictators undermine religion because of the power that they can get from it. A great source of untapped power.
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