Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps

[Randy Carson]

You've made it clear that you worship the god of the Bible. The crimes I've listed are drawn from that.

Or are you now going to disavow the Bible wholly or in part?

Be specific.  Do not shilly-shally, because I will be hammering you with the above quote every single time you cite the Bible in any argument, otherwise.

Parkers, I have no idea what your personal issues are but what you believe to be hammering is simply iron strengthening iron. So, hammer away at me all you like.

I disavow nothing (beyond Genesis 3 anyway, and even then I'd want to discuss each point specifically).

God has committed no crimes.

Man, you must spend a lot of time reading crappy books, Parkers. Why not take a look at the one I recommended? At least you will be able to argue against what Christians REALLY believe about God and not the strawmen you set up, okay?

Hitler was a big fan of Nietzsche. That was the influence that led to the Holocaust.

You're wrong about this, as well. Hitler's anti-Semitism was drawn largely from Wagner and Hitler's friendship with his widow, as well as the anti-Semitism that had percolated throughout Central Europe since before the time of Luther -- an anti-Semitism that your sect happily supported for centuries -- imbibed during his homeless years in Vienna. The influence Nietzsche had on Hitler was not regarding anti-Semitism, but rather, the idea of the Hero, one who did what was best for his people without regard to other populations.

You saw the photo.

Hitler visited the Weimar Nietzsche because he had read Nietzsche and admired him. The Aryan race was a twisted version of Nietzsche's "superman". Hitler understood with chilling clarity the moral implications of a Nietzschean world without God. Once he had attained power, he created the concentration camps to implement the Darwinian law of nature that would bring about the elimination of the unfit and the creation of a civilization that was fit for the master race.

So, yeah, Hitler's "final solution" was all about doing "what was best for his people without regard to other populations." and the connection is obvious.

Nietzsche > Hitler > Auschwitz

But noooo...according to the stuff I'm told in the "Why Be Good?" thread, atheism (and the death of God) has nothing to do with this whatsoever.

I guess Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot (to name a few) just weren't as evolved as the rest of you.