Hi All,
In the book The Christ Conspiracy by Acharya S, there is this statement on page 2:
To deflect the horrible guilt off the shoulders of their own faith, religionists have pointed to supposedly secular ideologies such as Communism and Nazism as oppressors and murderers of the people. However, few realize or acknowledge that the originators of Communism were Jewish (Marx, Lenin, Hess, Trotsky)
(Jewish Encyclopedia, 1905, 418; Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 1943, "Hess, Moses,""Soviet Russia.")
and that the most overtly violent leaders of both bloody movements were Roman Catholic (Hitler, Mussolini, Franco) or Easter Orthodox Christian (Stalin), despotic and intolerable ideologies that breed fascistic dictators. In other words, these movesments were not "atheistic," as religionists maintain.
So, does anyone know anything about Stalin being a Christian when he became a tyrant?
What do you think of the assertion of the author that it's a ploy that religionists use to deflect the bloodshedding of the Christians (and Islam, etc.)?
It seems to me that it's credible to suppose that religion can and does cause war and killing, but atheism doesn't cause or promote anything because it's essentially a vacuum of belief.
Another thing, is that perhaps the comparison is not possible because maybe 99% of humans have been religious, so how could it be compared with the supposed small amount of atheists?
Any thoughts?