'"in the name of atheism".   Wonderful sophism.   Are you by some chance a lawyer?   Try again.

No, just in the name of a religion-free ----i.e.--atheist--state.


And anybody who thinks Wiki is the last word on this needs to read a bit more--to say the least.

If you don't think Hitler and the Nazis launched a ruthless drive to subdue and weaken Christianity--and gave short shrift to any who opposed them-- you need to read at least one book on the period--sounds like you have never read one.

Have you never heard of the Nietzschean-- (that's right, the 'God is Dead' man) -- superman? If you don't think the Nazi ideology was a secular one which deified race over creed, your education is lacking. But that of course never stops Mudcatters, it seems.


Still waiting for the name of any atheist state which has been successful and treated its people well.