A question was asked on whether or not Stalin & Pol Pot were athiest, most of the answers were yes, but it wasn't their athiesm that created the monsters they were (my words) but other issues they had.
Then people on the same question blame Hitlers problems on being raised Christian.... (surely it wasn't the sever beating from his step father, the strange relationship he had with his mother, just being raised with the the title Christian.)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071020094101AA4lgMZ&r=w#QoYrPGvqA1EqHaiEwoyW
2007-10-20 05:56:06 · 14 answers · asked by Sister blue eyes 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, Eartha Q, I am.
2007-10-20 06:01:54 · update #1
Eartha Q - I am not going to get into a debate with a student. Put a few years under your belt and we'll chat.
2007-10-20 06:11:26 · update #2
Point taken - I mispelled atheism.
2007-10-20 09:07:38 · update #3
Good, question. In Hitlers case it was a number of factors that made him what he was. I certainly don't contribute it to him being a christian. I think most people were referring to the fact of good and bad being all religions. Yes Stalin was an atheist, but Hitler was a christian. All religions have there "bad" ones and religion should not be judged by those few bad apples.
2007-10-20 05:59:53 · answer #1 · answered by punch 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and all the atrocities perpetrated by mankind on mankind weren't the work of the leaders. They were the work of thousands of humans who chose to follow them.
The leaders would have been helpless to do anything much without humanity to follow. That's how it's done, religion or no religion
2007-10-20 13:01:16 · answer #2 · answered by Jack P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Hitler was not completely Christian... Infact the way he was is generally him being Darwinian in the wrong way. We believe that "The weakest species dies out and the fittest/strongest prevails". Well, Hitler thought that the Jews were the weak ones - because they'd "evolved" into being christians and he thought that he had to destroy all the Jews so that he could aid the human race on their way to the future...
Apparently and I believe this.
2007-10-20 13:02:34 · answer #3 · answered by The Big B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it does bother me but everyone does it. Not just Atheists and not just Christians and all that. Its a normal mental process to put people into groups and then blame the groups you disagree with. It takes an intelligent person to see past all that, and even intelligent people can be prejudice.
2007-10-20 13:04:15 · answer #4 · answered by AceShooter 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Their, all 3 of them, religious beliefs or lack thereof may have contributed to their crimes. I personally think that their stances were not the causal factors in their evil. I think that pointing to individuals Representatives as examples is a argument that carries little or no weight, as you can always find counter examples.
2007-10-20 13:02:21 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The thing that puzzles me is why, given the repetition of the correct spelling and the presence of the Check Spelling feature, people persist in misspelling "atheist."
2007-10-20 13:33:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All those men (including a few others) were all sick little dictators with delusions of grandeur and OCD. None of it had anything to do with what religion they followed or not followed. The world is not black or white, there is alot of grey too. And some of it has nothing to do with religion.
2007-10-20 12:59:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Bajingo summed hitlers beliefs up quite nicely.
i will borrow his post.
"... I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord's work."
(Mein Kampf)
2007-10-20 13:01:37 · answer #8 · answered by alucard817 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That's odd you say that, because I was one of the 'people' that mentioned Hitler. I also said it was specious to call Hitler 'Christian'.
One day, hopefully, we will look at muslim-terrorists (non-Muslims, according to other Muslims) with the same honesty and care for detail....
Not to say that religion hasn't played a MASSIVE part in their 'development' and belief in the afterlife/invincibility...
(and I'm a 'she', small detail..!)
2007-10-20 13:02:42 · answer #9 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
yeah, i noticed that.
I also noticed they like quoting "i feel i'm doing the Lord's work" but fail to acknowledge "the greater the lie, the more it's repeated, the easier it is for the people to believe it", also from Mien Kamphf
lost.eu/21618
2007-10-20 13:30:27 · answer #10 · answered by Quailman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋