The Horrors of Atheist Regimes

Modern Historians often cite the French Revolution as the beginning of the modern period. This should not surprise as most of our Universities over the last century were, and still are  imbedded with a Leftist philosophy. That philosophy sees the French Revolution as their own cultural watershed and coming of age. After all it was in this period of revolution that the ‘Cult of Reason’ was proclaimed, together with the invention of ‘The Enlightenment’ , the critique of Christianity and the coming to power of an atheistic movement that threw off religion and ‘backward superstition‘.

The fact is often conveniently overlooked that after the Revolution, in cold blood, that atheist movement publicly and systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent Frenchmen first by guillotine and then by mass drowning when the method of public beheading was deemed to be inefficient. It is also overlooked that the Revolution self-imploded after only a few short years in brutal infighting and disillusionment  which mirrors the implosion of many 20^th century Atheist states from Russia to Ethiopia to Portugal etc. After the horrors of murder and suppression were fully unleashed and had run its course, in the name of Progressive social engineering, there was no intellectual strength, morality or common desire  to support the subsequent Godless societies.

The short 18^th century period of time where the French atheists came to power is called ‘The Reign of Terror’. Such brutality had not been seen in Christendom before. It would lift the curtain for subsequent European and global genocides which followed the same anti-religious rhetoric fuelled by the Enlightenment values of atheistic thinkers. The 20^th century atheist horror is called the ‘Red Terror’. And terror it certainly was, even more bloodthirsty and savage then the one that it proceeded from. It still goes on today in parts of China and North Korea. Many other former atheist countries have today reversed their views of religion as a backward superstition and actively try to incorporate religion into the running of their failed states. We are seeing also in the intellectual West a quiet move away from the promotion of atheism as the full horrors and failures of where that philosophy leads becomes apparent.

For a short while after the bloodthirsty destruction and failure of the French Revolution atheism was shunned by the political and philosophical classes. Charles Darwin and the naturalist theory of ‘The Survival of the Fittest’ then provided a new impetus. It is interesting to note that Christian Churches were not generally against the theory of evolution and Charles Darwin himself left open the question of God although he personally apostatized from Christianity. In many atheist minds though, the new theory made it more credible, acceptable and even necessary to be an atheist.

Many of these atheistic thinkers drew their inspiration from Darwin and looked again to remake society in natural terms. Ideas of a God were again ridiculed and those who held such ideas were again considered intellectually superstitious and backward. Many of the ‘Enlightened’ thinkers from that period are today held as the founders fathers of atheistic philosophy. They also were  indirectly responsible for the horrors that descended upon us in the last century.

Karl Marx, the founder of what is called socialist Marxism took Charles Darwin’s notion of a struggle for survival in nature and applied it to his struggle between human social and economic classes proclaiming an inevitable evolution from Capitalism to Socialism. He viewed Christianity as outdated and scientifically disproved and a hindrance to the progressive evolution of society. Hitler subsequently took Darwin’s and Marx’s ideas, joined them with other Atheistic ideas of Nietzsche and Wagner and applied it to the struggle between different human races. Dozens of ‘enlightened’ megalomaniacs and  monsters of history took up the same insanity all around the globe in different local contexts in the 20^th century. The result was the same in each context. Large numbers of people were de-selected (murdered) for the progressive evolution of the state into a socialist Utopia. Religion took the brunt of the destruction by this enlightened philosophy which somehow saw itself as exclusively following reason and science.

In the Christian West, Marx’s spiritual Socialist children had the idea that an outdated Christianity needed to be ruthlessly expunged and/or replaced for their modern progressive revolutions to succeed. The inspiration of the French Revolution together with Darwin’s idea of evolution by the removal of the weakest was the rationale for their subsequent progressive purges of large sections of their own populace and the purposeful purging of Christian intellectual opposition.

Whilst International Socialists viewed Christianity as an enemy which needed to be exterminated altogether, Hitler’s National Socialism viewed Christianity as a Jewish corruption that needed to be remade in a German context, controlled and put to use by the progressive state.

Soviet Socialists imprisoned and murdered hundreds of thousands of priests, demolished tens of thousands of Churches, made it illegal to teach Christianity in schools, allowed millions of Ukrainian peasant Christians to die of starvation, exiled millions of other citizens into concentration camps, made it illegal for people under the age of 18 to participate in religious ceremonies, taught children atheism in public schools and gave then homework projects of converting one of their family members to atheism.

Adolph Hitler also made it illegal to teach Christianity in schools, united all Protestant Churches under the authority of the state replacing Church crosses with Swastika’s, made it compulsorily for German youth to attend weekly Hitler youth camps which clashed with Sunday Church services, closed Catholic newspapers, tried to replace Catholic school crucifixes with pictures of Hitler, negotiated the removal of Catholic parties from German politics, then orchestrated a media campaign against the Church, threw hundreds of nuns out of the state social services, sponsored the state confiscation of Church property, imprisoned thousands of priests in concentration camps and planned to kidnap and assassinate the Pope.

China and North Korea today imprison Christian intellectual opposition and it is illegal to be a Catholic in those countries. They both have de-selected (murdered) countless millions of dissidents and unborn children in their own population by forcibly arresting and ripping to shreds the babies from the wombs of young mothers in the name of the progressive natural engineering of society.

Hitler was directly influenced by German atheist writers such as Nietzsche and Wagner. For example, Hitler made comments  such as ‘one cannot understand National Socialism unless one first understands Wagner’ which clearly link  his National Socialism with the atheistic thinker. Hitler also was on friendly terms with the sister of the atheist philosopher Nietzsche. Nietzsche was one of the great founders of modern atheism. Freud for example made the comment that no other man saw the human condition quite so clearly as Nietzsche. Hitler personally presented Elizabeth Nietzsche with flowers for her then dead brother and received from her Nietzsche’s favourite walking stick. He also posed for a book photograph under a Nietzsche statue, visited often the Nietzsche museum and presented a collection of Nietzsche writings to his fellow dictator Mussolini who was both an admitted atheist and an admirer of Nietzsche‘s writings. Hitler also used terms and ideas that were developed by Nietzsche such as ‘Lords of the Earth‘ who were defined as a particular ruling race who would subsequently exterminate lesser races. A favourite term of Hitlers was Nietzsche’s ‘Übermensch’ that was used in the context of Hitler’s master race ideology.

While calling themselves socialists and following much atheistic ideology, the Nazis looked originally to forcibly discredit and take over Christianity rather than destroy the concept altogether. Alfred Rosenberg, one of  Hitler’s ministers and known for his hatred of Christianity was a leading figure in this history. He was a prominent player in the Nazi state creation of what was called ‘Positive Christianity’ and later published his plan to confiscate all Christian church property, replace the bible with Mein Kampf,  ban the printing of the Bible in Germany and make it illegal to import bibles from other countries.

These two strands of socialism, national and international, both based on atheistic philosophy and underpinned by Social Darwinism and Enlightenment thinking has caused terror, pain and death on a scale that has never before been seen and God willing, never again will be.

Modern progressive atheist regimes de-selected (murdered) their own people in mass quantities numbering collectively into the hundreds of millions. Just a few of these countries include China, Russia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Poland, Ethiopia and Yugoslavia. The number of people killed by these regimes is staggering and it was all done in a very short time period.

By comparison, the much heralded Spanish Inquisition, run by the secular (civil) authorities of Spain in the Medieval Period after 800 years of Muslim colonial rule,  executed a maximum of 4,000 people over a timeframe of well over 300 years.  The entire Spanish Inquisition’s death toll would not make the top 30 of Atheist Government atrocities just in the 20^th century alone. Places like Mongolia and Albania in the last century had atheist regimes who each brutally killed 25 times more people than did the secular run Spanish Inquisition. These atheist atrocities were themselves 25 times smaller than the atheist atrocities in Yugoslavia and Ethiopia and yet even these atheist atrocities were themselves more than 25 times smaller than the Russian and Chinese atheistic atrocities.

Yet how many even know about such numbers of atheist atrocities in the West? How many atheists burst with forced indignation about distant imagined atrocities by the Pope all the while creating a false history in their own minds in which to justify their present irrational anger towards Christianity? Is that healthy? Is that rational?

My thesis is that the militant atheist mind needs to justify its attacks on religion by forcing itself to perceive both history and science in an absurd and illogical way which is intellectually narrow and ultimately mentally unhealthy. That’s not to say atheists are mentally ill, but the direction that an atheist philosophy pushes one is to be super critical of the world around him that was forged by Christianity. Psychologically it is advantageous if Christianity, Christians and Christian history is imagined as evil and backward. Such a direction can produce a gradual mean spirited, arrogant and super critical closed mind.