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Aielyn said:
Hitler wasn't an atheist. The best description of him would be "pseudo-pagan". He believed in the Christian god, but he also believed in other supernatural powers. He was never an atheist - indeed, he associated atheism with communism, which was a philosophy that was the polar opposite of what he believed in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler#Hitler_and_atheism As for atheism being a religion, you seem to confuse the phrase "atheism" with what we often call "Strong Atheism". Most atheists would describe their view as "Lacking a belief in a deity". That is, we are atheists for the lack of a reason to believe. "Strong atheists", who I often think of as "Dogmatic atheists" (which contrasts with "Agnostic atheists" and "Scientific atheists", the former of which believe you can't know if there's a deity and so should not operate as though there is one, and the latter of which simply wants evidence before belief), have a firm belief that there is no deity. There is a big difference between absence of belief in a deity and believing in the absence of a deity. Stalin was a Strong Atheist. So is Richard Dawkins. Please don't confuse such people with the typical atheist, just as I would not associate typical American Christians with the Westboro Baptist Church. |
I like this explaination about the different kinds of atheists. Have to use it in the future. I think the best example of a dogmatic atheist would be Hitchens since he didn't just not believe in a god because there wasn't evidence, he actively hated the very concept of a god and found it abhorent on a moral level.
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