JPSargeant78
John Sargeant
Peter Hitchens thinks atheism reason communists were blood thirsty; bloody totalitarianism killed and terrorised all homoeconomicusnet.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/the…
ClarkeMicah
Peter Hitchens
@JPSargeant78 One of many reasons( all stemming from their belief they were doing the will of history). ....
@JPSargeant78 One of many reasons( all stemming from their belief they were doing the will of history). ....
ClarkeMicah
Peter Hitchens
@JPSargeant78 ..post is specifically about their violent hostility to religion, not about wider violence and murder.
@JPSargeant78 ..post is specifically about their violent hostility to religion, not about wider violence and murder.
JPSargeant78
John Sargeant
@ClarkeMicah terror & horror the Russian communist state unleashed was not only on religious. Totalitarian aspect, people means to utopia...
@ClarkeMicah terror & horror the Russian communist state unleashed was not only on religious. Totalitarian aspect, people means to utopia...
ClarkeMicah
Peter Hitchens
@JPSargeant78 Who said it was? But Bolsheviks took specific measures against religion.
@JPSargeant78 Who said it was? But Bolsheviks took specific measures against religion.
jacobinism
Unrepentant Jacobin
@ClarkeMicah They took specific measures against ALL sources or possible sources of competing power. @JPSargeant78
@ClarkeMicah They took specific measures against ALL sources or possible sources of competing power. @JPSargeant78
JPSargeant78
John Sargeant
@ClarkeMicah yes - because main threat to their anti-pluralism and competition to Marxist ideology was religion. It's not just thought.
@ClarkeMicah yes - because main threat to their anti-pluralism and competition to Marxist ideology was religion. It's not just thought.
ClarkeMicah
Peter Hitchens
@JPSargeant78 I'm an ex-Trot. I know what they did, and who they did it to. Did you really think I didn't?
@JPSargeant78 I'm an ex-Trot. I know what they did, and who they did it to. Did you really think I didn't?
JPSargeant78
John Sargeant
@ClarkeMicah the point making: totalitarian, utopian, ppl as means, terror as weapon - the factors that made communism blood thirsty.
@ClarkeMicah the point making: totalitarian, utopian, ppl as means, terror as weapon - the factors that made communism blood thirsty.
JPSargeant78
John Sargeant
@ClarkeMicah in my blog I mention that this would single out religion on its own (atheism or not). When the state wants your mind and body..
@ClarkeMicah in my blog I mention that this would single out religion on its own (atheism or not). When the state wants your mind and body..
JPSargeant78
John Sargeant
@clarkemicah & has no qualms about terror on farmers, workers, priests bloodlust results. Focus on religion misses a terrorised populace.
@clarkemicah & has no qualms about terror on farmers, workers, priests bloodlust results. Focus on religion misses a terrorised populace.
ClarkeMicah
Peter Hitchens
@JPSargeant78 You're missing the point. Bolsheviks SPECIFICALLY atheist in thought and action...
@JPSargeant78 You're missing the point. Bolsheviks SPECIFICALLY atheist in thought and action...
jacobinism
Unrepentant Jacobin
@ClarkeMicah As u know Peter, atheism's simply lack of a belief in something. It makes no demands on thought/behaviour at all. @JPSargeant78
@ClarkeMicah As u know Peter, atheism's simply lack of a belief in something. It makes no demands on thought/behaviour at all. @JPSargeant78
JPSargeant78
John Sargeant
@ClarkeMicah atheism (as non belief in deity) needs a lot more to make someone blood thirsty towards religious. As you know Marxism provided
@ClarkeMicah atheism (as non belief in deity) needs a lot more to make someone blood thirsty towards religious. As you know Marxism provided
ClarkeMicah
Peter Hitchens
@JPSargeant78 .but refusal to acknowledge higher moral power(explicit in Bukharin and Trotsky) is important feature in revolutionary thought
@JPSargeant78 .but refusal to acknowledge higher moral power(explicit in Bukharin and Trotsky) is important feature in revolutionary thought