Religious Fanaticism: Adolph Hitler

[J.T]

I can also tell you that more atrocities were suffered by innocents at the hands of non-religious people, e.g. Communists, than at the hands of religious fanatics. One only has to look at the number of deaths inflicted on the masses because of the Soviets and by Mao Tse Tung and his followers.

Non-religious?

The answers are to be scattered through the pages which follow. For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant; what he cares mostly about is spiritual freedom. The strength of the Catholic Church has always been that it demands the sacrifice of that freedom uncompromisingly, and condemns spiritual pride as a deadly sin. The Communist novice, subjecting his soul to the canon law of the Kremlin, felt felt something of the release which Catholicism also brings to the intellectual, wearied and worried by the privilege of freedom.

Here, indeed, is the explanation of a phenomenon which has puzzled many observers. How could the intellectuals accept [this dogma]? ... The [dogmatic] novice, subjecting his soul to the canon law of [their leaders], felt something of the release which Catholicism also brings... Once the renunciation has been made, the mind, instead of operating freely, becomes the servant of a higher and unquestioned purpose. To deny the truth is an act of service. This, of course, is why it is useless to discuss any particular aspect of politics with [an adherent of dogma]. Any genuine intellectual contact which you have with him involves a challenge to his fundamental faith, a struggle for his soul. For it is very much easier to lay the oblation of spiritual pride on the alter of [political vision] than to snatch it back again
http://www.amazon.com/God-That-Faile.../dp/0231123957

[J.T]

In the years 1913 and 1914 I expressed my opinion for the first time in various circles, some of which are now members of the National Socialist Movement, that the problem of how the future of the German nation can be secured is the problem of how Marxism can be exterminated.
-Adolf Hitler

[J.T]

Christian fanatics don't worry me at all. They are annoying but harmless.

Bombings are harmless annoyances?

The Army of God is an underground network of domestic terrorists who believe that the use of violence is appropriate and acceptable as a means to end abortion.
An excerpt from the Army of God Manual says that the Army of God "...is a real Army, and God is the General and Commander-in-Chief.

http://www.prochoice.org/about_abort.../army_god.html

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hutaree

[J.T]

People like this really kill me. Christian fanatics? Somebody bombs an abortion clinic and you're ready to paint with a broad brush.

Kinda like the islamapohobes who want to kill every muzzie on earth and demand that mosques be banned in the U.S. because a politically motivated bastard used religion as the tool of mass control it has always been and got a bunch of followers to kill some people?

[Wind Song]

What concerns me, is how Christian fundamentalist in VA were able to stop another Christian group from having an interfaith retreat center in their community. When Christian turns on Christian, it's really getting out there.

[J.T]

What concerns me, is how Christian fundamentalist in VA were able to stop another Christian group from having an interfaith retreat center in their community. When Christian turns on Christian, it's really getting out there.

No, you don't get it. We're the only true church, They're the false prophets and doctrines Jesus warns about in Revelation. They are deceivers and tools of satan. They must be destroyed so they cannot mislead so that the souls of countless persons may be saved. We are the righteous army of God himself... DEUS VOLT!

[Wind Song]

No, you don't get it. We're the only true church, They're the false prophets and doctrines Jesus warns about in Revelation. They are deceivers and tools of satan. They must be destroyed so they cannot mislead so that the souls of countless persons may be saved. We are the righteous army of God himself... DEUS VOLT!

Good thing I can recognize hyperbole. It worries me that fanatics can become mainstream.
Among the values shared implicitly by most Americans are:

1) that persons ought to be free to do as they please so long as they do no harm to others, and

2) that every person is entitled to hold an opinion, and that no person's opinion is necessarily or intrinsically more valid than any other's.

The radical religious right does not play by those rules at all.

[Abbey Marie]

I must have missed where our board's name was changed to "Christianphobics Debate Policy". You folks are always looking to spread the anti-faith. In fact, pretty fanatical yourselves.


(Here's a little secret: We don't care what you think, and generally just feel sorry for you)

[Wind Song]

Is this a Christian only board? I didn't see that it was required.

[Abbey Marie]

Is this a Christian only board? I didn't see that it was required.

You are joking, right?

[Wind Song]

Yes, I'm joking.

So far, from what I can tell, most of the members who post here are Christian though.

[gabosaurus]

I am a Christian. I am also a liberal. I think everyone should be allowed to believe what they want to believe. Which alone tells you how liberal I am.

[Wind Song]

Case in point.

[darin]

Christianity is largely incompatible with modern liberalism because Christianity is about freedom and love for others. Liberals love only power and creating dependency. They tend Hate liberty, self-reliance, personal responsibility, babies, white males, christians, and successful folk.

[J.T]

Liberals love only power and creating dependency. They tend Hate liberty

Christians dream of a theocratic dictatorship. Their heaven knows no freedom of thought, let alone any other liberties.

, self-reliance,

Jesus was a bum who crashed on people's floors and begged for money.

personal responsibility

Christianity knows no responsibility. You can do anything and be 'saved' before death and all is forgotten.