If you had the power..

Hipster_Nebula wrote:

Biggie wrote:The truth is, non-religious motivations and naturalistic philosophies bear the blame for nearly all of humankind’s wars. Lives lost during religious conflict pales in comparison to those experienced during the regimes who wanted nothing to do with the idea of God – something showcased in R. J. Rummel’s work Lethal Politics and Death by Government:

Non-Religious Dictator Lives Lost

• Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000
  
  
• Mao Zedong - 37,828,000
  
  
• Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000
  
  
• Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000
  
  
• Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000
  
  
• Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000
  
  
• Pol Pot - 2,397,0003
  
  

Hitler was a catholic.

No he wasn't. Like Stalin he may have been baptised but both gave up all sense of belief.
Religion is a choice and its quite possible to change or abandon that choice. If you're born black or white,tall or short- you can't change physical properties- but you can change religious beliefs to other religions . Or none at all as is the case with these two monsters.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:

Like everything else ,Hitler had a warped sense of both religion and God.. His sense of race, of the volk, of Teutonic superiority. of women, of gays,Roma, handicap and illness was warped. Its inevitable that any sense he had of religion was warped.
You can't beat up believing Christians because Hitler claimed that he had some sort of divine right to interpret anything and everything he chose to. - including  their religious belief.

Biggie wrote:The truth is, non-religious motivations and naturalistic philosophies bear the blame for nearly all of humankind’s wars. Lives lost during religious conflict pales in comparison to those experienced during the regimes who wanted nothing to do with the idea of God – something showcased in R. J. Rummel’s work Lethal Politics and Death by Government:

Non-Religious Dictator Lives Lost

• Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000
  
  
• Mao Zedong - 37,828,000
  
  
• Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000
  
  
• Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000
  
  
• Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000
  
  
• Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000
  
  
• Pol Pot - 2,397,0003
  
  

The deaths attributed to Chiang Kai Shek and Mao Zedong were committed during the Chinese Civil war. Chiang was a nationalist and Mao a communist. Chiang had leanings towards the Muslim faith.