Posted on 04/26/2007 8:57:40 AM PDT by spirited irish
The game was over with adoption of the XIVth Amend. The article is somewhat useful for illustrations of the lingo of this type of conspiracy theory. It is flat wrong as an essay.
By your "logic", a Jew or Christian believes they are nothing more than animated clay. Before you disagree, please read my tagline.
“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”That Hitler?
-- Adolf Hitler, from John Toland, Adolf Hitler, New York: Anchor Publishing, 1992, p. 507.
“The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.”
-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Ralph Mannheim, ed., New York: Mariner Books, 1999, p. 562.
“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”
-- Adolf Hitler, ibid. p 65.
“My feeling 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. ...
For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery. 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 today this poor people are plundered and exploited.”
-- Adolf Hitler, April 12, 1922; from Norman H. Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1, New York: Oxford University Press, 1942, pp. 19-20.
“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 delivered in Berlin, October 24, 1933.
“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.”
-- Adolf Hitler, 26 April 1933 during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordant of 1933.
“I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lords work.”
-- Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered at Reichstag, Berlin, 1936.
“The judgment whether a people is virtuous or not virtuous can hardly be passed by a human being. That should be left to God.”
-- Adolf Hitler, in a speech at Wilhelmshaven, April 1, 1939.
Lib-—”*Real* conservatives hold people accountable for their own actions. Shifting the blame to some pet hatred is a tactic of agenda-driven extremists”
Attacking the author rather than debating and/or logically refuting the essays arguments is revelatory of the all-too transparent ‘tactics’ of a——schmoe.
Maybe in your court, but not mine, when I ignore you it is because I find your comments without merit.
Lib—”By your “logic”, a Jew or Christian believes they are nothing more than animated clay. Before you disagree, please read my tagline.”
The ‘clay’-—in the hands of its Intelligent Creator- became mankind-—made in the image of his Creator,and endowed with a spirit within which is located freewill, memory, self, personhood, reason, imagination, thought, and so on.
The trousered ape, on the other hand,is an accidental by-product that emerged from out of primordial slime. It has no spirit, hence no self, memory, imagination, freewill, thought, logic, reason, and so on. Whenever it believes it “knows something” it has simply experienced the knocking about in its cranium of firing synapses. In the words of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc, the ape is expendable-—lice, useless eaters, etc.
Your attacks against the author indicate that you have utilized the free-will you deny possessing to freely choose an existence as a trousered ape but that you are discomfitted at the thought of being an ape.
And yes, I read your tag-line. It’s exactly the sort of defensive posture one expects from someone whose vanity has led him to choose being an ape because it’s the “enlightened” thing to do. If tomorrow you were told that it’s the ‘enlightened and scientific’ thing to think of yourself as a dung-beetle, would you do it-—for vanity’s sake?
“...when I ignore you it is because I find your comments without merit.”
But then, the ‘comments’ of trousered apes are always without ‘merit.” How could they be otherwise? After all, the poor thing is merely experiencing an epiphenomenon. (sarcastic amusement)
Just wondering what point you’re trying to make with all of your ‘quotes”? Are you trying to say that Christianity was the cause of Hitler’s evil?
Nope.
Evil men do evil things for evil reasons, or sometimes for no reason at all. It doesn't help to lie about their motivation.
The clam was made by thiscouldbemoreconfusing that Hitler was an 'raving evolutionist, a secular humanist.' --I showed that clearly, he was not. He was a pious Catholic, carrying out what he believed to be God's work.
I'm quite sure Hitler was breast-fed and ate bread, but thiscouldbemoreconfusing didn't blame Hitler's destruction of the Jews on mama's milk or baked goods; Now did he?
BTW, why the scare mark around 'quotes'? Are any of them inaccurate or mis-quoted?
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