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MindPilot
(12,693 posts)probably because it doesn't afford anyone the opportunity to point out that Atheists are a tiny minority, Stalin was an Atheist, and so was Hitler.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)Nice Godwin though.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)kpete
(72,022 posts)and peace to you and yours MindPilot,
kp
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/25/living/gallery/atheists/index.html?hpt=hp_c4
http://corkhumanists.weebly.com/famous-humanists.html
but peace to you anyway MindPilot,
kp
Moostache
(9,897 posts)I don't see them very often, but when I do its usually interesting to say the least!
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)paleotn
(17,989 posts)..next to Ayn Rand. Please, please, please!! That really would be hell.
mimi85
(1,805 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)powerful image!!!
peace, kp
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)that he went there to tell people that god didn't exist, just like Stalin did while he was in divinity school
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)I think you forgot the
thingy.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)just a reference to how Atheists are usually treated on DU.
Quasimodem
(441 posts)You know, I don't think I've ever seen anyone give a reach around from the front before.
alfredo
(60,077 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)you went out of your way there.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)please see post 39
jmowreader
(50,563 posts)Hitler was probably not all that religious, but the National Socialist German Workers Party leadership used the church to do the work of the Party in several ways.
Eins: "Kinder, Kirche, Kuche." The German woman's duty: children, church and kitchen. We like to say the Republicans want to keep women barefoot and pregnant, but the Nazis came right out and said it.
Zwei: "Gott Mit Uns." Each German fighting man wore a brass belt buckle bearing this inscription. You kinda have to wonder where they got the brass to make these things.
Drei: Using ministers who believed in the Nazi program (remember, very few Germans knew about the extermination program) to convince the man in the street that accepting extreme austerity now would lead to a wonderful future. That isn't far out of line; religion has always pushed the idea that forgoing pleasures now would lead to an eternity of joy in heaven - and they ALL do it.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)although I believe in Spirit I would rather have an atheist in the foxhole beside me than any number of these so called Christians.
Religious views are changing and many people now are more honest in their beliefs/views - religion can no longer shackle everyone in fear and that is refreshing and the wave of the future.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)Harumph.
rurallib
(62,451 posts)mr blur
(7,753 posts)rurallib
(62,451 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)They excommunicated Napoleon and Fidel Castro, but not Hitler.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)And an artist too... painter if I remember accurately.
Which is why I rarely hang out with artists... just in case.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)I have a dog .....
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)Quasimodem
(441 posts)Dubya had stuck with his strengths and remained a foot and dog painter, instead of stinking up the White House for eight years.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Below is listed the most blasphemous details of the new religion that Hitler planned to replace Christianity with:
1. The National Reich Church specifically demands the immediate turning over to its possession of all churches and chapels, to become national churches.
5. The National Reich Church is immutably fixed in its one objective: to destroy that Christian belief imported into Germany in the unfortunate year 800, whose tenets conflict with both the heart and mentality of the German.
13. The National Reich Church demands the immediate cessation of the printing of the Bible, as well as its dissemination, throughout the Reich and colonies. All Sunday papers with any religious content shall also be suppressed.
14. The National Reich Church shall see that the importation of the Bible and other religious works into Reich territory is made impossible.
15. The National Reich Church decrees that the most important document of all time-therefore the guiding document of the German people-is the book of our Fuhrer, Mein Kampf. It recognizes that this book contains the principles of the purist ethnic morals under which the German people must live.
16. The National Reich Church will see to it that this book spread its active forces among the entire population and that all Germans live by it.
18. The National Reich Church will remove from the altars of all churches the Bible, the cross and religious objects.
19. In their places will be set that which must be venerated by the German people and therefore is by God, our most saintly book, Mein Kampf, and to the left of this a sword.
21. In the National Reich Church there will be no remission of sins; its tenet is that, once committed, a sin is irrevocable and will be implacably punished by the laws of nature and in this world.
30. On the day of the foundation of the National Reich Church the Christian cross shall be removed from all churches, cathedrals, and chapels inside the frontiers of the Reich and its colonies and will be replaced by the symbol of invincible Germany-the swastika.
The way that Hitler could pursue the annihilation of Christianity along with the Jews was through his war. Gereon Goldmann, a former Waffen SS solider, revealed the hidden, yet key objectives of Hitlers war:
One day a big shot from Berlin came to speak to us. We were stunned by what he said, but we werent allowed to tell anyone-it was strictly confidential. This man told us that Victory could only be complete when all the churches were destroyed. Not only the Jewish religion, but also all Christian faiths would have to be eliminated.
http://prophecyproof.blogspot.com/2010/06/threat-hitler-posed-to-christianity.html
In 1894, at the age of 15, he enrolled at the Orthodox Seminary of Tiflis, to which he had been awarded a scholarship. The teachers at Tiflis Seminary were also determined to impose Russian language and culture on the Georgian students.[1] Like many of his comrades, young Stalin reacted by being drawn to Georgian patriotism. For a time, he wrote Georgian poetry, for which he gained some fame.
During his time at the seminary, Stalin and numerous other students read forbidden literature that included Victor Hugo novels and revolutionary, including Marxist, material. He was caught and punished numerous times for this. He became an atheist in his first year.[6] He insisted his peers call him "Koba", after the Robin Hood-like protagonist of the novel The Patricide by Alexander Kazbegi; he continued to use this pseudonym as a revolutionary.[7][8] In August 1898, he joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, an organization from which the Bolsheviks would later form.
Shortly before the final exams, the Seminary abruptly raised school fees. Unable to pay, Stalin quit the seminary in 1899 and missed his exams, for which he was officially expelled.[9] Shortly after leaving school, Stalin discovered the early writings of Vladimir Lenin and decided to become a revolutionary.[citation needed]
valerief
(53,235 posts)Ciao forever.
Quasimodem
(441 posts)Because I have neither the facts to prove nor disprove the existence of an invisible sky fairy, but from forced close readings of the New Testament at an early age, I can pretty much assure you that Pat Robertson's delineation of the Biblical Jesus is a total crock.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)5% identified as atheist in this 2012 poll:
http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2012/08/13/poll-shows-atheism-on-the-rise-in-the-us
Bettie
(16,129 posts)Made me cry, just a little.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)I'll take a smart atheist like Ricky Gervais over condescending fraud Pope Photo-Op every time.
Sid
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)and I have zero tolerance for the religious fraudsters and their leaders...like Duck Dynasty
The support of their bigotry says so much about this country and religion
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)Iggo
(47,571 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Beautiful.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)flying rabbit
(4,644 posts)Thank you.
niyad
(113,581 posts)proReality
(1,628 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)It's his relatively short series on Netflix. Like Ricky himself, it is both funny, tender and filled with understated meaning.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)As I am at my folks and my iPad is my tv at night.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)It's necessary to set up the story, but a little difficult to get through.
It gets better and better and, by the end, I was very sad to see it end.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)I adore his honesty and heart
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Thanks from this atheist for posting this.
mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)we go to heaven or hell or knows we vanish into nothing is full of crap. There's no way for any of us to know one way or the other. But I will say this. We form such strong bonds in this life, it is hard for me to believe that those bonds don't continue in some form or fashion after we die. That was a lovely sentiment Gervais wrote about his mother.
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)Is the flying spaghetti monster white?
WowSeriously
(343 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Any and all varieties of pasta... Along with two meatballs of your choosing.
Remember, He boiled for your sins.
May you be touched by his noodly appendages.
R'Amen!
navarth
(5,927 posts)Mr. Gervais is not only funny, but very very wise. It's a nice thing to see.
And he's right about Moms. I've been very lucky in that department.
Here's wishing you all survive the holidays.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)I must say this is one of the most accurate as well as sweetest statements that could be made about *most* moms.
Julie
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Unlike some oh so religious people I know.