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Originally Posted by Si
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.
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humanity has an inner need for event driven spirituality... unlike actual spirituality which is a very slow process... one of the first documented examples of this is Moses and the Golden Calf
hence the need for loud proclamations of faith, large dramatic events, miracles and charismatic leaders with simple, yet bold ideology's... and usually someone or group to lay the blame on to replace or supplement the more traditional religious focuses of a society.
you may refer to the Nazi's or Communism as religions however while both organizations function the same on some levels and fulfill the same needs I wouldn't say that either Nazi's or Communism is a religion.