On 12 December 2013 11:49, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/11/2013 1:32 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
>
>> Whit episodic periods of massacres, genocides and other massive
>> crimes, he would have added. I recommend you to add this to your
>> mantra.
>>
>
> Yes, religious wars and genocides based on theology.  That's why Dacey
> referred to "post-Christian" europe.
>

I think it's fair to describe both Nazism and Stalinism as forms of
theology (with my usual apologies to Godwin's law). Or at least as secular
ideologies which hooked into much of the usual underpinning of religions
(leader worship and a coming golden age, for example).

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