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Ahem a problem I spotted right off is that the "school children" of 1930s germany couldn't have grown up to be the SS of WWII as most would have been younger then 18.
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That is not a problem in any way. Many people that were school children of the 1930s were of proper age to become members of the SS during the war. That is an entire decade there... 17 year olds in school are certainly "school children."
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As to Hitler and religion look here:
(link removed because UBB makes crappy scripts that completely butchered it)
as well as some other interesting stuff.
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That site is too filled with political hogwash and personal attack to be of much academic merit...
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Your link sounds like it is desperately trying to turn about the common belief that Hitler and the Nazi's were occultist in their views to make people beleive that it was Religion's fault so I don't much take that one guy's article over so many history books and shows I've watched and read.
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No, it does not attempt to make it seem like it was "Religion's fault." It merely debunks the myth that Hitler was an atheist, and that he was not Christian (Catholic to be more precise).
What do you mean by "occultists," exactly? Do you mean, mixing in a bit of Norse mythology to help instill national pride? That is not "occultist" by any means. Unless, of course, you are a Christian Fundamentalist... but that is an entirely different can of worms...
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narf poit chez BOOM said:
Direct qoute from that site.
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When confronted by the fact that Hitler's example hardly helps in their slander campaign against atheists,
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I am not trying to slander atheists, I'm trying to stop people from slandering religeons. Nice 'interpretation' of the motives of >EVERY< religeos person who argues against you [/qoute]Nice way to take it out of context.  He was writing about those slandering atheism, not about you trying to stop slander against religions.
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some anti-atheists suddenly switch gears to Marxism and point out that Marxism is atheistic, in an obvious attempt to tie atheism to past and present human rights abuses in Russia and China. However, that is a logical fallacy: the fact that all Marxists are atheists does not mean that all atheists must therefore be Marxists (if you don't understand why that's a fallacy, go back to school). It's also an unnecessary slander against Marxists. [/qoute] Ok, I've read this three times and I don't have a clue what he's saying. Of course all atheists are not marxists. And I doubt everybody who says the're a marxist is an athiest, either. What's the guys point?
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Think McCarthyism. Marx espoused atheism. Nations like the Soviet Union and the "Communist" China claimed to be Marxist and committed countless atrocities. Therefore, they must have commited them because they are Godless atheists. Thus, Godless atheists are evil. This is the sort of thinking he was writing against.
[qoute][qoute]While I find Marx's communist ideas to be very seriously flawed, I must note that he never would have approved of the violent regimes of Stalin or Mao. Atheism is merely the refusal to believe in a God for whom no scientific evidence exists. It does not necessarily lead to Stalinism, or decadence, or the breakdown of family values, or any of these other ridiculous charges that are routinely levied at it.
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Religeon is merely a system of belief in some sort of higher power, because of personal choice and sometimes personal evidence, even if there is no demonstratable, scientific evidence. It does not necessarily lead to totoleranism, or mass-murder, or the breakdown of rationality, or any of these other ridiculous charges that are routinely levied at it.
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I think you misconstrue postings about the atrocities committed in the name of religions, ordained directly by them (Christianity is one of the worst offenders, primarily Catholicism), as some sort of statement that religion is only about such things...
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