Concerning the slavery thing, when I saw atheists in Youtube comment sections and elsewhere around 2012-13ish, they would always, ALWAYS say that the Bible promoted slavery, murder, and rape. And they were always parroting that same exact talking point, too word for word.
The Old Testament did call for brutality quite a bit, but considering that said violence was against particularly vile pagan societies, it's not hard to see why it would request that. Of course, they then had to ignore the New Testament's more merciful message and try to push a few lines against violent slave revolts and beatifying marital devotion to try to treat the entire Bible as an evil document.
Sometimes now they take the opposite tack, and claim it's an antisemitic book because it shows Jews doing unsavory things to people they hated.
To be fair, Jews have been trying to change Christian and Muslim prayers and holy books for some time now.
They're worse fundamentalists than the actual fundamentalists.
Hitler was an opportunist who would have pretended to believe anything he thought would give him an advantage. He may have been nominally Christian or even a believer, we don't really know, but if he thought some Black Sun/Thule Society type shit would get him ahead, he'd do that, too.
Exactly. He was privately very fond of Islam, and lamented that Germany hadn't been conquered by the Ottomans because that would have given them a more warlike religion which he felt was better suited for nation-building. His own beliefs and what he thought was most useful for his goals were not linked, and he seems to have been a utilitarian more than anything.
Considering that the Ratzis banned secret society membership later on in their reign, I doubt it.
That was because secret societies posed a threat to Nazi rule, not because the Nazis were against neopaganism.
The fact that neither were particularly devout and were not motivated by their faith is a very important point to make because there's a difference between claiming that a communist regime “wasn’t real communism” when it becomes murderous and collapses, and saying that Hitler and Mussolini were not demonstrations of Catholicism being evil since they were neither religious nor motivated by Catholic principles. The “No True Scotsman” fallacy is for situations where something that is part of a demographic is excluded for not fitting the mold, not when the person eating sugared porridge isn’t even from Scotland.
Well argued on this one; I forgot that technically the commies still claim to follow Marx's underpants gnome tier plan for a utopia.
“People always look at me like I’m crazy when I talk about this” Gee, I can’t think why
Are we reading the same Bible? God didn't kill the Israelites after they worshiped the golden calf, he condemned them to roam the desert for 40 years. He never killed them on the spot. WTF is this guy talking about?
