YAAAAAAWN!!!!
There's 41/2 of my life I can't get back.
Perhaps, we should also be offended by an ignoramous like Dawkins, who can't seem to grasp that people of faith DO support stem cell research (by and large) with one lone exception, which just happens to be the most ethically controversial and the LEAST EFFECTIVE: Embryonic stem cell research.
Or, perhaps we should be offended by Dawkins' supreme ignorance over the fact that, for all his bleating about kids and education, it has been the Christian church that have helped develop schools to help educate not only America's children but children worldwide.
As for quote from Martin Amis, I'm afraid Amis is showing his supreme amnesia on world history. But, Dawkins is right about one thing. Stalin didn't scream "Heil Hitler", when he was slaughtering people left and right. Of course, when millions are being put down, one is hardly concerned about what the one-liners coming from the mouths of the aggressors.
Once again, Dawkins in engaging in revisionist history, trying to paint the Nazis as Christians, hoping to whitewash the secularist tint from them. But, as the saying goes, "that dog don't hunt". The simple fact is, whether Dawkins acknowledges it or not, atheism has IN FACT been used to create atrocities that make the Jihads and Crusades look like catfights at Hooters.
With no god, man is the supreme being. Therefore, the breed of man deemed superior is in fact the ruler of the roost.
Hitler did what he did, thinking he was a "good person", because he was advancing his so-called "master race" and getting rid of the inferior Jews (which I'm sure would have been followed by blacks, Hispanics, and even other white people, he and his ilk deemed to be of inferior stock).
With no Islam, Christianity, or even Baal worship to fuel his "dogma", we are left with one thing for the Fuhrer: Pure bona-fide atheism.
Dawkins can be as offended as he wants. That changes not the facts of history or that this sub-5-minute diatribe was as right as two left shoes.
Nice try, Necrosis! But, you're going to have to better than this.
you miss the point, saying hitler killed because of atheism is not logical, just like saying he killed because he was a vegetarian,his argument is logical and correct.
hitler was a man of relgion, the belts they wore had religious writings inscribed. examples
“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”
( Adolf Hitler, from John Toland [Pulitzer Prize winner], 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. )
i geuss mein kampf isnt a good source
“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, Mein Kampf, Ralph Mannheim, ed., New York: Mariner Books, 1999, p. 65. )
DIRECT EVIDENCE
“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. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. And as a man I have the duty to see to it that human society does not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did the civilization of the ancient world some two thousand years ago — a civilization which was driven to its ruin through this same Jewish people.
“Then indeed when Rome collapsed there were endless streams of new German bands flowing into the Empire from the North; but, if Germany collapses today, who is there to come after us? German blood upon this earth is on the way to gradual exhaustion unless we pull ourselves together and make ourselves free!
“And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress that daily grows. 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, in a speech delivered at Munich, April 12, 1922; from Norman H. Baynes, ed., 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. )AS USUAL you are wrong while also creating strawmen, you see it doesnt matter if hitler was an atheist, for argument lets say he was, atheism cannot be used as tool to destroy others. No were does it say some are superior, no where does it say to do any of the things hitler did, it has nothing to say other then there is no god.
EPIC FAIL.