Didn't Stalin enforce an atheist regime, which killed thousands of people
2006-12-19 02:46:41 · 27 answers · asked by naughty boy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
I don't know if Stalin was an atheist or not, but he did not kill thousands of people in the name of atheism.
Atheists do nasty things, but not in the name of atheism. The few that have do not nearly match the magnitude of the Inquisition, The Crusades, et cetera.
2006-12-19 02:50:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 20⤊ 2⤋
When you find an atheist who says "Let's start another bloody Stalinist-style regime", you can aim this kind of comment at him. In the meantime, you'll notice that atheists are the LEAST likely people today to push that kind of thing.
Using the fact that Stalin didn't believe in god as an excuse to attack atheists is unethical, and when Christians like Roy Moore and now apparently Newt Gingrich take it to extremes, it's not that different from Stalinism. Clean up the log in your own eye.
2006-12-19 02:58:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Stalin didn't kill people in the name of atheism. And the only communist leader to actually enforce atheism as a state religion was Enver Hoxha in Albania.
Furthermore, atheism is not a belief system like Christianity is. It is simply a lack of belief in a god or gods, nothing more. As such, you can't make any further generalisations about atheists. Any other opinion or policy an atheist may have is independent of their atheism.
2006-12-19 02:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
This is the most stupid thing I have seen on here. Stalin played chess. Does this mean Chess has blood on it's hands. Let alone the fact that Stalin was brought up in a religious home. Why can't you morons think before you say anything so bigoted hateful and stupid!
Stalin did not believe in Unicorns. Are you also claiming Stalin killed thousands in the name of aunicornism! That is no more stupid than what you said.
2006-12-19 02:52:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 18⤊ 0⤋
Ideologies like communism, that asserts the end justifies the means, are what lead to such regimes as Stalin's and Mao's. In this area, their atheism is immaterial. What mattered is their ideology of the communist state.
Can you say that Christianity was immaterial in the Salem witch trials or the Spanish Inquisition? Can you say Islam was immaterial in the 9/11 tragedy?
2006-12-19 02:56:19 · answer #5 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Stalin was not an atheist regime it was a secular regime. And it killed millions for the record.
2006-12-19 02:50:09 · answer #6 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 14⤊ 0⤋
Stalin did not kill in the name of Atheism; he killed to consolidate his power.
Also, two wrongs don't make a right. Even if someone did something bad in the name of Atheism, that doesn't make it okay for a Christian to do the same.
2006-12-19 02:54:12 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Stalin did kill millions of people (more than Hitler).
The state attempted to stifle the power of religion by pushing atheism.
People were not killed in the name of atheism.
Stalin was religious.
2006-12-19 02:55:42 · answer #8 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
This is an old old fallacy. You are mixing false cause and effect! The fact that Stalin was supposedly an atheist is not linked to the crimes he committed. He trained as a priest, you may as well attribute his murders to that!
2006-12-19 02:58:04 · answer #9 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Did you know before the revolution Stalin was in a seminary studying to be an orthodox priest? Another product of the church!
2006-12-19 02:53:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋