Atheism does not define a world view it defines a non-belief in God
You and Chris were describing it as if it were a world view. But I suppose your memory is as short as your temper. A worldview may be spoken about in very narrow or broad detail. It is NEVER incorrect to characterize the essential belief that defines an individual, and the concommitant tapestry of beliefs which structure and express that conviction, as a worldview. All atheists have a worldview just as all Christians do.
You, of course, with your usual keen sense of logic, prefer to have it both ways. Half the time you're gratuitously attaching unproven or unlikely riders onto the atheistic worldview, while at other times you blather that it is merely "a non-belief in God"-like Christianity is merely a belief in God--RIGHT!!
Hitler was an atheist
Every Nazi sioldier wore a belt with God inscribed on it. I believe it was victory for God--something like that. Here Hitler boasts that he has stamped out atheism:
"We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech in Berlin on 24 Oct. 1933
Here he honors the Christian God for the millionth time:
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice....
And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people....
When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited."
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech on 12 April 1922
[Note, "brood of vipers" appears in Matt. 3:7 & 12:34. John 2:15 depicts Jesus driving out the money changers (adders) from the temple.]
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I'm sure your little gang will do much better
What does this childish display of pique have to do with my opposition to the absurd concept that people are born evil? BTW, do you ever hear (say, X) talking about "your gang?" Why do you think it is so difficult for you to debate IDEAS without resorting to misdirection, insolence, and sneering. Do you have a little pebble in your shoe?
"Original Sin" Another socialist concept first invented by the Roman church to enslave early Christians into their political sphere
Gee, Average--it may surprise you to know that I don't believe original sin actualy occured, either. SURPRISE!!
I wonder what you gore gals are really trying to achieve.
I don't know what this comment has to do with a discussion on atheism. I guess I can assume it is an insult from the tone, and from your demonstrated inability to discuss isues factually; but I don't know what you mean by "gore gals." One can always tell when a person has rather scarce mental resources. They have a way of brandishing insults, or supposed insults, in lieu of argument, and when they do think to say something intelligent, they make up something about "Hitler." |
