The greatest excuse in the world for mass killings, despotism, and utopian hell is not, "God told to me do it," but, "I can do it because there is no God." That, in essence, was the stance and slogan of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and other mass murderers who together killed tens of millions in the 20th century. For example, in a speech given in October 1920 to the the Russian Young Communist League, Lenin said,
"In what sense do we reject ethics, reject morality?
In the sense given to it by the bourgeoisie, who based ethics on God's commandments. On this point we, of course, say that we do not believe in God, and that we know perfectly well that the clergy, the landowners and the bourgeoisie invoked the name of God so as to further their own interests as exploiters. Or, instead of basing ethics on the commandments of morality, on the commandments of God, they based it on idealist or semi-idealist phrases, which always amounted to something very similar to God's commandments.
We reject any morality based on extra-human and extra-class concepts."
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