10 June 2008 - 8:10am
Could those terribly tyrannical atheists be examples of people who don't know (or don't care about) the basic concepts of right and wrong?
But to Stalin, Mao and Hitler etc they were doing 'right' as you term it. All the regimes I mentioned were militantly Anti-Religion. Eric5 trying to be clever, said Hitler was a Roman Catholic. He was born into that faith but rejected it, as did Stalin (who even entered a seminary) who was Orthodox. The basic point remains unanswered: does a lack of any sort of religion lead to a lack of Humanity ?
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