Is Stalin more closely related to atheists than Hitler to Christians?

Question

People don't ask you, don, because you are wrong

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
o from John Toland, Adolf Hitler, New York: Anchor Publishing, 1992, p. 507.

Answer 1

Hitler believed in evolution but was backed by the Church.
I think in his situation religion mainly served the role of support and not something he was actually dedicated too.

Stalin was a complete atheist so I'd say yes.

Answer 2

Depends on your meaning.

If you are asking if Stalin is more closely associated with atheists than Hitler is to Christians, then definitely. Although this has a lot to do with most people believing Hitler was not a Christian but a follower of the occult (there is little to support this view) or an atheist (the only support for this argument is that Christians say what he did meant he couldn't have been a Christian. The counter-argument being that he sent atheists to the concentration camps).

If you're comparing the genocides and asking if they relate to religion, then Stalin killed for political reasons and there's never been a claim that it related to atheism. Hitler's genocide was done in the name of religion (and with some support from the church). So, the link between Christianity and Hitler is vastly greater than the link between Stalin and atheists.

However, if you're just asking about their religious views - then yes, Stalin is more closely related to atheist because everybody accepts that he was one. Hitler on the other hand is more complicated because the Christians don't accept that he was one. Although clearly the German Christians at the time, certainly thought he was.

Answer 3

the fast answer is that no, faith and irreligion had no longer some thing to do with the moves of those 2 adult men. They were staggering products of staggering situations. There are some inaccuracies on your record, besides the undeniable fact that. case in point: At 40 2, Stalin grow to be a favourite determine in the Soviet administration, besides the undeniable fact that it grow to be 1920 - Lenin grow to be and would stay the imperative determine till 1924. At 40 2, Hitler grow to be the unquestioned chief of the Nazi get mutually, besides the undeniable fact that it does no longer be for 2 more beneficial years that he got here into political potential and four more beneficial in the previous he thoroughly consolidated potential into the Nazi regime. At 33, Hitler did not lead a "revival" of the Nazi get mutually - it were formed in trouble-free terms many years in the previous, and he grew to grow to be its chief in 1921, at age 32. He grow to be in tremendous area responsible for its staggering boom and acceptance, yet he grow to be imprisoned in 1923 and the get mutually grow to be set again for a couple of minutes. At 33, Stalin grow to be in exile in Siberia; only a three hundred and sixty 5 days later he outraged Lenin through calling for solidarity with the Mensheviks. Georgia, on the time of Stalin's beginning, grow to be area of the Russian Empire, and in no experience grow to be his relocation to the political centers of Russia equivalent to Hitler's relocation from Austria to Germany.

Answer 4

Stalin can be identified vaguely as similar to atheists, but atheists are not totalitarian communists, so the comparison kinda poofs into thin air the more you think of it.

Hitler had little to do with Christianity. I don't understand the comparison. The Holocaust was the culmination of centuries of European anti-Semitism that can still be seen in Europe today.

Answer 5

Hitler was not a Christian.These are some of his quotes:
"The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity."
"Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.... .... When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let's be the only people who are immunised against the disease."
"There is something very unhealthy about Christianity"
"The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.... Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse"
A Nazi song replaced Silent Night in some churches:
" Silent night! Holy night!,All is calm, and all is bright,Adolf Hitler is Germany’s wealth,Brings us greatness, favour and health,Oh give us Germans all power! "
Hundreds of thousands of Polish Christians were killed in concentration camps,as were Jehovah's Witnesses.
Hitler lamented Christianity :"The individual may establish with pain today that with the appearance of Christianity the first spiritual terror entered into the far freer ancient world"
Joseph Goebbels noted in a diary entry in 1939: "The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay."
Hitler rewrote the Bible,printed out a hundred thousand copies,and placed them in schools.The rewritten versions left out 'thou shalt not kill' and 'thou shalt not steal'.

Answer 6

Stalin attended Seminary, so I think probably about the same - and they both hated Jews, which was taught by their Catholic upbringing.

Answer 7

Since Hitler was a Christian and Stalin was an atheist, then no

Answer 8

I'm pretty sure the same number of generations seperate both of them from anyone today

Answer 9

Is Stalin more closely related to being Russian than Hitler was to being German. Same question same relevance.

Answer 10

Anyone who judges all atheists by the actions of Stalin (or any one atheist) is an idiot. I have no use for such people.