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Thread #133350   Message #3031976
Posted By: Stringsinger
14-Nov-10 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Atheist Delusion
Subject: RE: BS: The Atheist Delusion
The idea that Hitler wanted to destroy the church is not true. He wanted to use the church to promulgate his ideas and his minions were rewarded by the Catholic Church and sent to South American countries for protection.

The idea of suggesting that there is a "real" Christian is like interpreting rain by saying it is what you want it to mean without any real meaning whatever. (See Lewis Carrol's Queen who says that her "word" is "what I want it to mean and nothing more." Today, there are Christians who are attempting to subvert the Constitution by claiming that their orthodox view is the correct one and that the Founding Fathers wanted us to live in a Christian theocracy.

The idea that there is a real Christianity is only an opinion and not a fact.

Then we get into ad hominem attacks such as "Bush was an idiot so that his ideas on religion were wrong". The problem is not Bush or the sincerity of what he believed but the actual idea of religion, itself.

As to the "atheists are evil" argument, when are people finally going to put this lie to rest?

I am grateful that these threads continue and love to see them longer and longer.