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   From: fasgnadh@yahoo.com   
      
   Seon Ferguson wrote:   
   >   
   > Stalin murdered millions of people because he was a   
   > communist not an Atheist.   
      
      
   “Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.”   
        -Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)   
      
   To be a member of the Communist Party you had to be an atheist.   
      
   “Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.”   
        - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)   
      
   "You know, they are fooling us, there is no God...   
   all this talk about God is sheer nonsense" - Stalin   
       -  E. Yaroslavsky, Landmarks in the Life of Stalin,   
          Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow 1940   
      
   But it was not just the Atheism of the leadership,   
   but of the entire State apparatus;   
      
   The Atheist leadership's policies were implemented under   
   the Red Terror, via gulags and executions, the use of   
   every arm of the state for anti-religious propaganda   
   and the forced indoctrination of CHILDREN!   B^[   
      
   “We do not fight against believers and not even clergymen.   
   WE FIGHT AGAINST GOD to snatch believers from Him.”   
         -Vechernaia Moskva, a Soviet newspaper   
      
   “Let us drive out the Capitalists from the earth,   
   and God from Heaven!” (early Soviet slogan)   
      
   "the state established atheism as the only scientific truth."   
        - Daniel Peris,   
        "Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless"   
         Cornell University Press 1998 ISBN 9780801434853   
      
   "Criticism of atheism was strictly forbidden"   
      
   "Between 1917 and 1940, 130,000 Orthodox priests were arrested.   
   In 1918, the Cheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky executed over   
   3000 Orthodox clergymen of all ranks.   
   Some were drowned in ice-holes or poured over with cold water   
   in winter until they turned to ice-pillars.   
   In 1922, the Solovki Camp of Special Purpose, the first Russian   
   concentration camp was established in the Solovki Islands in the White Sea"   
      
   John Shelton Curtis, The Russian Church and the Soviet State   
         (Boston: Little Brown, 1953)   
      
      
      
      
   > Hitler did not kill the Jews or gypsies or   
   > gays or whoever in the holocaust because he was an atheist.   
      
      
   Who claimed he did?  Do you know something we don't?   
      
   Hitler clearly believed in the cult of the Ubermensch.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)