10-28-2009, 11:11 AM
Quote:But... He's not religious. He wraps himself in religion to get votes. In my opinion, he's actually a Tartuffe. Now back to your proposition... "nut-jobs" also use or wrap themselves in religion to justify their twisted view of reality. There are plenty of examples of evil in world history where the nut-jobs were not religious... e.g. Mao... Stalin... Pol Pot... Kim Il Sung... Hitler... Mengistu...Aside from Hitler, who was religious (albeit in a weird way, twisted by his peculiar ideology), all your examples are hardcore Communists. I'm with Russell on this one - Communism shares all the worst traits of a religion: Infallible Dogma, Apocalypse, Promised Land, Chosen People, Prophets of Dubious Worldly Merit, Schisms, Excommunications... the list goes on.
Are there equivalent examples that don't share this quasi-religious political dogma?
-Jester