Why did Stalin murder millions of Christians & destroy churches?! (bible, worship)
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Stalin didn't just kill christians. He killed anyone that disagreed with him. He did so because he was a dictator and a psychopath, not because he was an atheist. Atheism had nothing to do with why Stalin did what he did. Stalin is an example of what happens when a dictator is in power, not what happens when an atheist takes power.
Yes that right, Stalin did not discriminate who he killed. He even had atheist members of his very own party killed as well.
I was seeking answers of 'Why did Stalin murder millions of Christians and burned down churches" and got nonsense, off-topic, and Anti-Christian responds from many atheists.
Please stay on TOPIC.
atheists never admit what evil things they have done both in past and present throughout the history.
The point is that nothing in atheism teaches someone to be a murderous nose-wipe. But somethings in Christianity can be interpreted exactly for that purpose. Atheists have no excuses for being bad people. Christians have the excuse of THEIR interpretation Christianity, which doesn't need anything but faith. No atheist would ever have mental peace by pretending atheism somehow protected or condoned their actions. Only a fool, psychopath, or some fanatic for a REAL cause (political, social, economic, religious, etc), would find excuses for their actions without following fully through on the consequences and implications.
Persecution of Christians in Soviet Union. Very sad and scary
It is sad, but I think the same equally of all who died needlessly during that era.
I wouldn't discriminate between atheist, christian, muslim or whatever. They are millions of tragic stories, and they should be viewed equally and as people first imho.
Why did Stalin murder millions of Christians & destroy churches?!
This is getting a bit silly with all the "Your theist killers are worse than my atheist killers" nonsense. Killers are killers and they have a host of human motivations for their atrocities. Why try to associate them with theism or atheism . . . because both categories contain ample evidence of killers. Before meeting Wood on this forum . . . I classed all Muslims in the fanatic killer category. They clearly are NOT. Unfortunately way too many of them ARE . . . and they present a very real and well-financed global threat to Western civilization. But it is their fanaticism and killer mentality . . . NOT Islam . . . that is to blame.
This is getting a bit silly with all the "Your theist killers are worse than my atheist killers" nonsense. Killers are killers and they have a host of human motivations for their atrocities. Why try to associate them with theism or atheism . . . because both categories contain ample evidence of killers. Before meeting Wood on this forum . . . I classed all Muslims in the fanatic killer category. They clearly are NOT. Unfortunately way too many of them ARE . . . and they present a very real and well-financed global threat to Western civilization. But it is their fanaticism and killer mentality . . . NOT Islam . . . that is to blame.
I've never claimed to be able to decide who is and isn't. I can read the Bible and see what a Christian is.
This is my very point, Vizio. You presume to think you have superior interpretive ability over, say, someone else who also interprets the Bible to mean something else. Fred Phelps stands outside the funerals of dead troops with signs that say "Thank God for Dead Soldiers." He's read the Bible and that's HIS interpretation of it. His interpretation could be 180 degrees out of sync with your interpretation but you have no authority by which to say that he's not a true Christian because YOUR interpretation is at odds with his.
Oh, here I was under the impression that you believed all the nonsense being espoused about Joseph Stalin, and his "atheism dogma" of murdering saintly Christians because atheism "doesn't change/transform" people and only religion changes the mind of a psychopath.
The O.P. has been answered. Stalin didn't like political competition (even from atheists), was a horribly bad person and likely an egotistically, anxious, obsessive-compulsive, know-it-all control freak, was appalled at the Churches' money hoarding, and was awe struck by theism's abilities and undue influence, among many other reasons. None of which involved a faith-based believe from the principle that no gods exist to the conclusion that the impersonal universe simply decreed or excused his actions.
Thanks for wasting our time by pretending you didn't know that bad people are bad and good people are good, and it has nothing to do with weather they believe some gods exist or don't.
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Marx disdained religion, partly because of the time he lived in. The Church was corrupt and supported the aristocracy. Marx viewed religion, the 'opiate of the masses', as a way in which the poor were 'kept in their place.' Indeed even scripture was used to justify this, i.e. the passages about masters and slaves and knowing your place. Communism also viewed religion as essentially hierarchical, which communism was supposed to be the opposite of that. The great irony is that, the leaders of Communism, even the more innocuous Lenin, attained almost God like status because human beings always have a tendency to deify great figures. Today in China many people still venerate Mao and Ho Chi Minh. One has to ask themselves why it is in communist countries where this hero worship is so strong? There's also Che Guevara, whom many western left-wingers like to wear on their T-shirts even though probably know little of what old Ernie actually did.
Why did Stalin persecute and murder Christians, as well as destroying churches and cathedrals, and shutting down thousands of them?
Another question must be: ' Why did God allow Stalin to get away with it?'
but let's also remember times like the French Revolution, where the country was run by a corrupt bourgeoisie Catholic Church, taxing the masses to allow the clergy a life of luxury and hypocrisy.
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Why did Stalin murder millions of Christians & destroy churches?!
