(September 8, 2011 at 3:28 pm)frankiej Wrote: If the morals are within me from God... Then why do I think it as wrong to bow to such a tyrrant?
Simply because you are also a fallen and rebellious creature; you will never conform fully to God’s decreed will and are unable to even do so until and unless He redeems you through His saving grace. I sincerely hope He does some day.
(September 8, 2011 at 3:28 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: The problem there was not their atheism (although, given all I've studied of Hitler, it's possible he still believed in a God as he claimed, and it's virtually impossible for any sane person to look at the history of anti-semitism in Europe without completely removing Christian influences), but the fact that their chosen political ideologies were so utterly inflexible and all-encompassing that they may as well have been a religion, and came to be so dominated by an us-vs-them mentality that it only became a matter of time before it led to mass killings.
When I make such bold claims I immediately get challenged to provide dozens of peer reviewed sources, yet everyone just lets your statements slide simply because they agree with them. It must be nice to be the beneficiary of such a lop-sided double standard.
So I have one atheist telling me that everyone knows Hitler was a Christian, yet five minutes later another atheist is telling me that Hitler was most likely some form of theist (something I don’t really dispute). Sounds like you guys need to get on the same sheet of music.
So when a religious person murders someone it is a direct result of them being religious, but when an atheist murders millions it is a direct result of their political affiliation and has nothing to do with their atheism? How convenient!!