"He was a living witness to the great crimes of the century of atheism. There are few as well qualified as the Poles to testify to the darkness of mankind without God.
First Hitler and the cult of paganism, then Stalin and the fetish of Communism. The dictators rejected God and raped humanity. And the second was the direct result of the first."
I've had an e-mail exchange with this columnist, Michael Coren, before, it went back and forth with two each then I gave up because I knew he lived in a world detached from reality, and his columns have only gone downhill since then. Now this.
Forget that atheism was never the problem, and the only reason the Soviet Union et al espoused it was so that their people could devote themselves to the state, which isn't what atheism is about. Forget the crap that without his god we, here, are in such horrible darkness that we apparently want to slaughter millions. Forget that unlike crimes in the name of religion, Stalin didn't slaughter millions in the name of atheism. No wars, no mass slaughters have been committed in the name of atheism.
No, what really pisses me off is the usually bullshit tying together of Hitler and atheism. As usual, Christians appalled by his crimes say that nobody that horrible could be a Christian, so they say he was an atheist. Except in this case, Coren only kinda calls him an atheist. In one paragraph he starts to go on about the "crimes of atheism" then mumbles on about Hitler "and the cult of Paganism." Pagans aren't atheists, you bald friggin' idiot! If one talks about the crimes of Christianity, they don't use the Taliban as an example.
Even all that aside, Christians can claim that Hitler didn't act like a Christian should so he couldn't have been a Christian, he called himself a Christian and claimed a belief in the Christian god. Hell, he denounced atheism!
Call yourself a journalist all you want, Michael Coren. There are enough of us out here who know what you truly are.
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by Tabby at 4/06/2005 01:18:00 a.m.
