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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
do you believe all children are born bisexual as well?
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Originally Posted by Mutt
That's not the Marxist reason for atheism. Marx called religion the opiate of the masses, believed that it was a tool used by the capitalist overlords to make the workers more at peace with their horrid lives by promising them there was a reward for them in the afterlife.
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Ok, I'll go along with that. I need to dig deeper into the religious thoughts of communists. Marx was first a protestant though.
Hitler is also mentioned often, looking over Hitler's beliefs, it's hard to not call him a Christian.
In his writings on Hitler's recurrent religious images and symbols, Kenneth Burke concluded that "Hitler's modes of thought are nothing more than perverted or caricatured forms of religious thought" [51]
I don't believe any of these dogmatic and totalitarian people such as Mao etc. Who are being used to try and justify for religion, are true atheists or humanists.