Comments on: How atheists should respond to claim atheism caused Nazism http://conversationalatheist.com/2009/04/how-atheists-should-respond-to-claim-atheism-caused-nazism/ Atheists need to make more of an effort to be heard in their daily life. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Robin Lionheart http://conversationalatheist.com/2009/04/how-atheists-should-respond-to-claim-atheism-caused-nazism/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Robin Lionheart Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:36:38 +0000 http://conversationalatheist.com/?p=989#comment-678 A Christian who brought up the Nazis to me got so angry with my joking response that she started swearing at me. I said, "Hitler's problem was he didn't know his place -- putting all the world's Jews in a furnace is God's job." <div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('678','Robin Lionheart'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('678','Robin Lionheart','A Christian who brought up the Nazis to me got so angry with my joking response that she started swearing at me. I said, "Hitler's problem was he didn't know his place -- putting all the world's Jews in a furnace is God's job." '); return false;">Quote</a></div> A Christian who brought up the Nazis to me got so angry with my joking response that she started swearing at me. I said, "Hitler's problem was he didn't know his place -- putting all the world's Jews in a furnace is God's job."
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]]> By: zahav http://conversationalatheist.com/2009/04/how-atheists-should-respond-to-claim-atheism-caused-nazism/comment-page-1/#comment-639 zahav Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:25:44 +0000 http://conversationalatheist.com/?p=989#comment-639 It seems to me that, although I'm not disputing that your arguments are factually correct, the tone of your suggested atheist organization response would pretty quickly shut down any hope of useful dialogue, and would do little to convince anyone of your views. So, I suppose it depends on what the goal of your response is. Do you want to convince others? Or do you want to radicalize the debate and focus getting atheists off the defensive? I think that the response here does only the latter. -an old friend <div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('639','zahav'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('639','zahav','It seems to me that, although I'm not disputing that your arguments are factually correct, the tone of your suggested atheist organization response would pretty quickly shut down any hope of useful dialogue, and would do little to convince anyone of your views. So, I suppose it depends on what the goal of your response is. Do you want to convince others? Or do you want to radicalize the debate and focus getting atheists off the defensive? I think that the response here does only the latter. \n \n-an old friend '); return false;">Quote</a></div> It seems to me that, although I'm not disputing that your arguments are factually correct, the tone of your suggested atheist organization response would pretty quickly shut down any hope of useful dialogue, and would do little to convince anyone of your views. So, I suppose it depends on what the goal of your response is. Do you want to convince others? Or do you want to radicalize the debate and focus getting atheists off the defensive? I think that the response here does only the latter.

-an old friend

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]]> By: Jaakko Wallenius http://conversationalatheist.com/2009/04/how-atheists-should-respond-to-claim-atheism-caused-nazism/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Jaakko Wallenius Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:22:41 +0000 http://conversationalatheist.com/?p=989#comment-474 Nazi party was always led by people who were members of Christian denominations and there were very few exceptions of this rule. Nazis did however always attack also Christian when they openly opposed their tyranny. Christians were in these cases treated as badly as any other people opposing the Nazi power machine. <a href="http://beinghuman.blogs.fi/2008/10/02/were-nazis-atheists-4813530/" target="_blank">http://beinghuman.blogs.fi/2008/10/02/were-nazis-...</a> <div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('474','Jaakko Wallenius'); return false;">Reply</a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('474','Jaakko Wallenius','Nazi party was always led by people who were members of Christian denominations and there were very few exceptions of this rule. Nazis did however always attack also Christian when they openly opposed their tyranny. Christians were in these cases treated as badly as any other people opposing the Nazi power machine. \n<a href=\"http:\/\/beinghuman.blogs.fi\/2008\/10\/02\/were-nazis-atheists-4813530\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/beinghuman.blogs.fi\/2008\/10\/02\/were-nazis-...<\/a> '); return false;">Quote</a></div> Nazi party was always led by people who were members of Christian denominations and there were very few exceptions of this rule. Nazis did however always attack also Christian when they openly opposed their tyranny. Christians were in these cases treated as badly as any other people opposing the Nazi power machine.
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