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Off topic, but in a lighter vein. Theism certainly had some wacky beginnings.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/emrods.htm
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/emrods.htm
Fair enough comment if you truly believe that….
However, I’m happy to live by the moral standards set by the ten commandments written in the old testament.
I’m not happy to live by the moral standards told to me by governments
i.e . “Climate change is the greatest moral challenge of our time”
As recently as 1979, the Cambodian genocide killed 1.7 million people. These were murdered by communist atheists.
The godhaters are just as mad as the godbotherers.
gg
So following your line of thinking GG .. Eating rice, communism, gods, botherers, French education, atheism, and impaired height all lead to genocidel tendency's.
For the vast majority of atheists there is no debate and no philosophy needed.
Sounds very much like the religious folk you detest. You have a lot more in common than you think.
Those who try to pass the Holocaust off as being the product of atheism, because of the very disputable claim that Hitler was an atheist, forget one very important fact. The Holocaust wasn't the work of one man but of an entire nation that was overwhelmingly Christian. The philosophical underpinnings that allowed that nation to attempt to exterminate from the face of the earth one particular religious minority was the belief that the Jewish people were responsible for the death of Jesus Christ, the son of the Christian God, and that they collectively shared the guilt for that act. Though not a view formally espoused by the Christian churches anymore, it is however the underlying cause for the 2000 year persecution of the Jews and ultimately the reason that the Holocaust was perpetrated by those in power and a blind eye turned to it by much of the rest of the world.
Religion was the cause of the Holocaust, not atheism, irrespective of the personal beliefs of Hitler.
Those who try to pass the Holocaust off as being the product of atheism, because of the very disputable claim that Hitler was an atheist, forget one very important fact. The Holocaust wasn't the work of one man but of an entire nation that was overwhelmingly Christian. The philosophical underpinnings that allowed that nation to attempt to exterminate from the face of the earth one particular religious minority was the belief that the Jewish people were responsible for the death of Jesus Christ, the son of the Christian God, and that they collectively shared the guilt for that act. Though not a view formally espoused by the Christian churches anymore, it is however the underlying cause for the 2000 year persecution of the Jews and ultimately the reason that the Holocaust was perpetrated by those in power and a blind eye turned to it by much of the rest of the world.
Religion was the cause of the Holocaust, not atheism, irrespective of the personal beliefs of Hitler.
Nazism & Soviet Marxism = Coke vs Pepsi.
Religion is never the cause of disaster. It has always been and always will be stupid people.
Religion is never the cause of disaster. It has always been and always will be stupid people.
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