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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 1:03 pm
(July 31, 2013 at 12:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No one wants to be in any club that Hitler was in. I always enjoy telling vegetarians that Hitler was a vegetarian, too. They usually go fucking apeshit.
It's one of my little guilty pleasures!
Ahh yeah, that kind of stuff.
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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Sign him up. He'd fit right in here.
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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 3:19 pm
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(July 31, 2013 at 12:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No one wants to be in any club that Hitler was in.
It sucks then if you only have one testicle, because that's not a club you can really opt out of.
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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 3:34 pm
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I think the real horror of the holocaust and Nazi Germany is to realize that millions of ordinary, good and moral people became participants in horrible evil without any consciousness that what they were doing was wrong.
If an ordinary German can become a horrible monster without realizing it, that means so can any of you.
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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 3:38 pm
(July 31, 2013 at 3:34 pm)apophenia Wrote: I think the real horror of the holocaust and Nazi Germany is to realize that millions of ordinary, good and moral people became participants in horrible evil without any consciousness that what they were doing was wrong.
If an ordinary German can become a horrible monster without realizing it, that means so can any of you.
Actually the suicide rate among the German soldiers assigned to the concentration camps was alarmingly high to German Command.
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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 3:40 pm
(July 31, 2013 at 12:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (July 31, 2013 at 9:58 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Hitler was catholic, fascism evolved out of the political catholic right and catholicism played an important role in the persecution of the jews by fascists.
As I said before, I find it disgusting when people just change history as they please to justify their political causes.
No one wants to be in any club that Hitler was in. I always enjoy telling vegetarians that Hitler was a vegetarian, too. They usually go fucking apeshit.
It's one of my little guilty pleasures!
Hitler abstained from alcohol, as well, yeah?
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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 3:40 pm
(July 31, 2013 at 12:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (July 31, 2013 at 9:58 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Hitler was catholic, fascism evolved out of the political catholic right and catholicism played an important role in the persecution of the jews by fascists.
As I said before, I find it disgusting when people just change history as they please to justify their political causes.
No one wants to be in any club that Hitler was in. I always enjoy telling vegetarians that Hitler was a vegetarian, too. They usually go fucking apeshit.
It's one of my little guilty pleasures!
According to QI, Hitler wasn't a vegetarian. Not that I'm citing them as a reliable source... or that they can't be wrong... but they must have had good reason to reject that claim.
As for Hitler's belief system... it changed during his life. Saying "Hitler was a ..." (insert belief system) is a bit of a mistake. He started as a Catholic and Christianity featured heavily in his life... but he was also into paganism and believed in mysticism. If he'd won WW2, I'm fairly confident that he'd have named himself a god, too. His belief systems changed. They never (that I've ever heard of) included atheism.
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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 3:45 pm
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(July 31, 2013 at 3:40 pm)Red Celt Wrote: According to QI, Hitler wasn't a vegetarian. Not that I'm citing them as a reliable source... or that they can't be wrong... but they must have had good reason to reject that claim.
I've read that Hitler's personal cook was disgusted with the fact that he was a vegetarian. So he'd sometimes slip a little beef broth into a dish made for him.
Apparently it gave the Fuhrer a tummy ache every time.
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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 3:51 pm
(July 31, 2013 at 3:38 pm)Rahul Wrote: (July 31, 2013 at 3:34 pm)apophenia Wrote: I think the real horror of the holocaust and Nazi Germany is to realize that millions of ordinary, good and moral people became participants in horrible evil without any consciousness that what they were doing was wrong.
If an ordinary German can become a horrible monster without realizing it, that means so can any of you.
Actually the suicide rate among the German soldiers assigned to the concentration camps was alarmingly high to German Command.
actualy, mass suicide started when the russians were coming closer and the west had landed in normandy.
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RE: War in the name of atheism
July 31, 2013 at 3:52 pm
(July 31, 2013 at 3:45 pm)Rahul Wrote: (July 31, 2013 at 3:40 pm)Red Celt Wrote: According to QI, Hitler wasn't a vegetarian. Not that I'm citing them as a reliable source... or that they can't be wrong... but they must have had good reason to reject that claim.
I've read that Hitler's personal cook was disgusted with the fact that he was a vegetarian. So he'd sometimes slip a little beef broth into a dish made for him.
Apparently it have the Fuhrer a tummy ache every time.
OK. I'll leave that pencilled-in until I check for myself. Not that his vegetarianism (whether true or false) is the most demandingly interesting information about him.
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