RE: So Hitler was an Atheist?
December 29, 2009 at 12:58 am
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2009 at 12:59 am by tackattack.)
(December 28, 2009 at 8:36 am)theVOID Wrote:(December 28, 2009 at 8:18 am)tackattack Wrote: If a man is the sum of his experiences then assuredly religion is one aspect of that. Just the same I could profess total belief in Christianity and completely go against all moralistic and societal aspects of my life. The fact that some rely on one aspect of a man to color more distain for Christianity is fairly petty as are the Christians who vehemently deny such documented proofs against such. Maping the entirety of a person whom I've never met and spoken with would be difficult in the extreme. Instead let's logically list the truths documented about him to for a more rounded view of his personality.
Religion has been named a great part in the attrocities of this world and I agree mostly. It has also been the cause of great joy and personal freedom. Religion is not God though, it is fallible man's inerrant depiction of a eutopian ideal far outside their grasp.
Nowhere in this thread did anyone suggest that Christianity was the cause of Hitlers tyrany, so just who are you arguing against?
It is implied by
(December 28, 2009 at 11:29 am)Minimalist Wrote: More to the point, Hitler called himself a christian and, if you ask me, he was a stellar example of the breed.
(December 28, 2009 at 11:29 am)Minimalist Wrote:(December 28, 2009 at 6:30 am)tackattack Wrote: What does it matter what his reasons were or his religion? He was wrong.
Ah, but had the Germans won the war he would have been "right."
History does favor the victors.
