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• Tuesday, December 2, 2008 11:03 PM

  jwnelsonUSA

  Just a note to the dumbasses, secularism is not the same thing as atheism - secularism is the idea that government doesn't get to tell you what to think about God.

  WWI: Fought mainly because an archduke got murdered. The main people fighting the war were Christians who each believed that God gave them a license to win it. Secularism didn't come anywhere near it, and the atheist communists were the ones who ultimately took Russia out of it.

  WWII: Hitler proudly proclaimed his Christianity and expressed loud disaproval of atheism, his propaganda spread the idea that God had specifically picked him to lead Germany to a new golden age of European conquest. Religious freedom was not a Nazi strong-suit.

  The Japanese Emperor was considered to be basically a God, and thus his propaganda was largely religious too. The allies, also made extensive use of God during their propaganda.

  About the only sides in that war who weren't heavily into God were the Russians and Chinese, who were being attacked by the axis powers. I would like to know where you get this idea that secularism was a major factor there.

  Vietnam: Was mainly a war against a puppet dictator and over economic policy. God had very little to do with it - it wasn't fought in the name of secularism.

  Stalin didn't do anything in the name of secularism, or even atheism for that matter, he did it in the name of maintaining his power. He was an atheist dictator but he wasn't a secular one.

  Mao, pretty much like Stalin.

  Khan and the Roman Empire were religious you nitwit.

  But hey, there is nothing quite like lying for Jesus now is there?

  —Taliesan Read Taliesan's other letters
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