The funnier part is when the believer doubles down on their stupidity and disavows Hitler as an Atheist instead of the obvious pious Christian man he was.

Argument ad 'your body count is high, too'.

(May 25, 2016 at 11:34 am)MJ the Skeptical Wrote: The funnier part is when the believer doubles down on their stupidity and disavows Hitler as an Atheist instead of the obvious pious Christian man he was.

He wasn't a pious Christian. He was almost certainly a theist, but he didn't attend services or otherwise abide by any Christian doctrine.

(May 25, 2016 at 12:03 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Argument ad 'your body count is high, too'.

The technical term is Argumentum ad corpus princeps comes est

(May 25, 2016 at 1:50 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(May 25, 2016 at 11:34 am)MJ the Skeptical Wrote: The funnier part is when the believer doubles down on their stupidity and disavows Hitler as an Atheist instead of the obvious pious Christian man he was.

He wasn't a pious Christian. He was almost certainly a theist, but he didn't attend services or otherwise abide by any Christian doctrine.

Sounds like a No-True Scotsman type argument. He was most certainly a pious Christian, read Mien Kampf.

(May 25, 2016 at 2:13 pm)MJ the Skeptical Wrote:

(May 25, 2016 at 1:50 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: He wasn't a pious Christian. He was almost certainly a theist, but he didn't attend services or otherwise abide by any Christian doctrine.

Sounds like a No-True Scotsman type argument. He was most certainly a pious Christian, read Mien Kampf.

No, he wasn't. Read Shirer or Toland.

Politicians regularly use the religion of their country for political ends. Given that Mein Kampf was screed, it certainly belongs in that category. He was certainly a theist. But calling him a "pious Christian" is unsupported and at times strongly contradicted by his table-talk, his tolerance of paganism in his inner circle, his attempts to suborn all churches under the rubric of Gleichschaltung, and so on.

Sometimes a guy just ain't Scottish.

Perhaps you've got support for your claim that he was a pious Christian aside from his political screed? I'll be happy to look anything you've got over.

And other thing about Stalin is that he was a Communist. I mean I've seen recently books and videos attacking people who defend guys that were blacklisted in Hollywood, by saying those people were indeed promoting communism. Like this video




People think that if someone is communist he automatically wants gulags, because "communism is evil" it sprouts gulags. As if Capitalism can't be evil and kill millions of people. This kind of stupid generalization has been plaguing countries like US for decades now. Like wars in Vietnam, Korea, Nicaragua or even Chile - "Oh now look at that kid, he's communist he wants gulags *bang*.

Because at the end of the day it's not about any -ism but the corruption and people that are allowed to be above the law. Even Commies can't escape having ruling class that take advantage of workers. It's always pretty much the same shit.

(May 25, 2016 at 4:49 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: The thing is evil people do evil things because they're evil. Good people do evil things because their religion tells them to do it.

This.... this is real. I love it.