Andrespetmonkey said:
Xen said:
theprof00 said:
sapphi_snake said:
RolStoppable said:
sapphi_snake said:
That's neglecting the huge corruption that existed in Eastern Europe, especially the Balkan region, way before Communism. You'll actually find that less religious states (e.g. the Scandinavian ones) are also less corrupt than more religious ones (e.g. Greece, Turkey, Romania).
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Doesn't surprise me in the least. I have always thought that nothing good ever came out of Romania.
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Ouch. Well, for sure nothing that ever came out of Romania can compare to a certain moustached dictator.
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Which one? Now that I think about it, every dictator from wwii era came out of strong religious countries. Russia (Orthodox church), German Catholicism/Christianity, Italy and the Vatican (which actually supported the Reich).
Also they all had mustaches.
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Commie Russia? Strongly religious?
News to me.
Not to mention that Hitler was pagan, and Stalin, an atheist.
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Hitler was catholic, he had strong ties to the catholic church and constantly referenced lord Jesus Christ and God in his writings and speeches.
He thought he was "doing the lord's work" in exterminating the jews.
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Is that why Hitler gave the church hell, made efforts to contact spirits of the germanic kings of old (one in particular, though I forgot the name), and admired pagan Himmler?
@prof: By the time Stalin came to power, religion was already heavily stumped in the USSR. It was nothing like the good ol' Russian Empire.
