Why do atheists say Hitler's action had everything to do with his religion but Stalin's action had nothing to with his atheism?
2006-11-28 08:41:01 · 9 answers · asked by This Virus Called Language 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because Hitler himself admitted to being motivated by his faith. Faith is dogma and doctrine and influence and interpretation and motivation and self-righteousness and justification.
Atheism is being without belief in god. I've never actually heard anyone say or imply they were motivated or inspired to commit crimes against humanity in the name of "non-god".
2006-11-28 08:45:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
I don't. The only time I use Hitler is in response to the Stalin accusation.
The truth is that both were motivated much more by their societal philosophies than their stance on deities.
The only difference is that Hitler did claim to be doing the will of God in his work, and no atheist I know of has ever claimed to do anything in the name of no god.
That being said, he was just as likely to have done so as a political ploy as he was to have done so out of sincerely believing that his ideas on killing millions of people were god's will.
2006-11-28 16:44:51 · answer #2 · answered by Snark 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i dont say Hitlers actions had anything to do with his religion, but if Christians bring it up, which they offen do because they think he was motivated by the theory of evolution, then i will tell the the truth that that isn't the case and he was Christian.
some people (Hitler, Stalin) are jerks naturally and some people (Jesus, Ghandi) are nice naturally, but for nice people to do evil things takes religion. not that all religious people are evil, in fact the majority of them aren't but religion can take a good guy and turn him sour.
2006-11-28 16:45:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hitler wrote himself a little book where he proclaimed to be doing god's work. It was his god given right to defend himself against the Jew.
I won't sit and say he would not have done it without religion, but it fueled his fire.
Stalin went to a religious school and was mocked and treated badly. Then he went on to shut down the churches. He did go to extremes, but religion was the root of his torment as well. His deformed arm is speculated to have come at the hand of his Orthodox Christian peasant father.
Let's hope one of those little buggered choir boys doesn't make it into office or there may be hell to pay.
2006-11-28 16:50:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because atheism just says that there are no gods. There are no tenets. However, religion does have tenets.
Stalin didn't say his actions were due to his atheism. His actions were to promote Communism. Hitler said his actions were to promote Christianity.
2006-11-28 16:48:14 · answer #5 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an atheist -- ii I am agnostic -- but I would not agree to either statement.
Stalin and Hitler were both evil. I do not think their belief or nonbelief in god would change that.
2006-11-28 16:51:56 · answer #6 · answered by Ranto 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
well thats something ive never said, being an Atheist doesnt mean you have no morals or are ignorant to the law. Any person can distort their religion/beleifs to justify their actions.
2006-11-28 16:49:46 · answer #7 · answered by Postmoderner 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't say that..
they were both egotistical-evil men, that got off on power and death.
2006-11-28 16:45:31 · answer #8 · answered by Deb 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because if they did, then they'd be speaking against themselves. Duh.
2006-11-28 18:19:52 · answer #9 · answered by Maus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋