RE: Why hate Athiest?
March 5, 2013 at 11:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2013 at 12:00 am by Darkstar.)
(March 5, 2013 at 11:38 pm)jstrodel Wrote:(March 5, 2013 at 9:51 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Except the Nazis, who were primarily Christian.
Crusades, inquisition, anyone?
The Nazi's were as Christian as Bill Clinton.
Religion in Nazi Germany
wikipedia Wrote:The German census of May 1939 indicates that 54 percent of Germans considered themselves Protestant, (including around 15 percent non-denominational Christians) and 40 percent considered themselves Catholic, with only 3.5 percent claiming to be neo-pagan "believers in God," and 1.5 percent nonbelievers. This census came more than six years into the Hitler era.It looks like they were trying to take over Christianity. (If you don't believe the above, you are welcome to look at any of the 105 sources referenced)
Nazi attitudes towards Christianity
Many Nazis promoted positive Christianity, a militant, non-denominational form of Christianity which viewed Christ as an active fighter and anti-semite who opposed the institutionalized Judaism of his day. Even in the later years of the Third Reich, many Protestant and Catholic clergy within Germany persisted in believing that Nazism was in its essence in accordance with Christian precepts.
The Nazi leadership made use of both Christian symbolism, indigenous Germanic pagan imagery, and ancient Roman symbolism in their propaganda. However, the use of pagan symbolism worried some Protestants.
Some Nazis, like Alfred Rosenberg and Martin Bormann, viewed Christianity and National Socialism as competing world views. However other Nazis like Dietrich Eckart and Walter Buch, saw them as part of the same movement.
From the mid 1930s, anti-Christian elements within the Nazi party became more prominent, however they were restrained by Hitler. In 1937 all Confessing Church seminaries and teaching was banned. Dissident Protestants were forbidden to attend universities. During Hitler's dictatorship, more than 6,000 clergymen, on the charge of treasonable activity, were imprisoned or executed. The same measures were taken in the occupied territories, in French Lorraine, the Nazis forbid religious youth movements, parish meetings, scout meetings, and church assets were taken. Church schools were closed, and teachers in religious institutes were dismissed. The episcopal seminary was closed, and the SA and SS desecrated churches, religious statutes and pictures. 300 clergy were expelled from the Lorraine region, monks and nuns were deported or forced to renounce their vows.
The Nazis weakened the churches' resistance from within and a significant number of the clergy, particularly Protestant, supported National Socialism, but the Nazis had not yet succeeded in taking control of the churches, evidenced by the thousands of clergy sent to concentration camps.
Note that I don't mean to say that Christianity is responsible for the holocaust, but rather that atheism isn't responsible for whatever communists did.
(March 5, 2013 at 11:48 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The fact that you are calling a logical "fallacy" developed by an atheist to support atheism a fallacy is fallacious.Huh?
(March 5, 2013 at 11:48 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Show me one logic textbook that includes "No True Scotsman"Does this count?
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
straight to entry