RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
August 10, 2013 at 6:36 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2013 at 6:38 pm by Ryantology.)
(August 10, 2013 at 6:11 pm)Golbez Wrote: 2. There are some historical atheists who were terrible human beings (of which, Hitler was not an atheist). Nevertheless, their behavior had nothing to do with atheism.
Nor is it but incidentally relevant. Would Hitler's madness have ever manifested as anything more than the rantings of a disturbed lunatic had a nation of millions of Christians not have agreed with his views and voted him in as Chancellor? Would his lunacy have gone down as one of the greatest crimes in human history had his vision not been carried out with the gleeful cooperation of millions of Christians in jackboots and uniforms?
Whether Hitler was an atheist is immaterial, because not only were the overwhelming majority of Holocaust perpetrators Christians and the overwhelming majority of supportive civilians Christians, but the ideas Hitler had were, in large part, inspired by Christian anti-semites and racists of lesser ambition which preceded him. The Holocaust was a crime of and by Christians.
