🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:48:05 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com>
wrote:


>> >>>>>>> So what is the matter? ?Stalin and Pol Pot were atheists. ?They will
>> >>>>>>> never turn into Christians no matter how many times you try to claim
>> >>>>>>> they were.
>> >>>>>>> Don't you atheists ever take responsibility for anything?
>> >>>>>> Because what they did is irrelevant to me? ?Now, back onto the question
>> >>>>>> you are REFUSING to answer:
>> >>>>>> What has what Stalin tried to do ("tried to stamp out religion in the
>> >>>>>> Soviet Union") relevant to atheism?
>> >>>>> Stalin was an atheist. ?His values and beliefs were much like yours
>> >>>>> are today.
>> >>>>> Robert B. Winn
>> >>>> Torquemada was a christian. ?His values and beliefs were much like
>> >>>> yours are today. ?And you're doing your best to make us all see the
>> >>>> point of shooting christians. ?You really are.
>> >>>> Al- Hide quoted text -
>> >>> Well, let's talk about those feelings, Al. ?Pol Pot was just an
>> >>> unassuming atheistic school teacher until he became a Communist
>> >>> dictator.
>> >> So, really, aren't you talking about communism and totalitarianism?
>> >> What does atheism have to do with it?
>>
>> > Under World Communism one of the pre-requisites for being a dictator
>> > was being an atheist.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>Because Karl Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people.
>Religious people were not allowed to be Communist dictators.

...and to think that Marx himself was Jewish...