Comments for Hostility to Reason at http://mnatheists.org , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://mnatheists.org Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:08:59 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://mnatheists.org/content/view/365/88/#comment-437 Fire, Two brief responses to your comment about the Nazis and Christianity. First, Hitler and the Nazis called themselves Christians--the official party program was published in 1920, and Hitler declared it infallible and irrevocable. In point 24 of the program, it says that National Socialism is based on positive Christianity. In 1933, when Hitler first came to power, he said: "It is Christians and not international atheists who now stand at the head of Germany." That Hitler and the Nazis called themselves Christians is an established historical fact. Second, the question is this: What was their interpretation of Christianity? This is where your critique goes wrong. Most Christians today no longer believe in the Bible, because they disavow slavery, they allow women to speak in church, they reject the genocidal passages (Deuteronomy 20), etc. Hitler and the Nazis simply based their Christian faith on an interpretation of the Bible that most contemporary Christians no longer accept. Even today's fundamentalists are not as fundamentalist as Hitler and the Nazis in their interpretation of the Bible. Yours, michael - Michael Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:15:46 +0100 http://mnatheists.org/content/view/365/88/#comment-436 Kersten is pathetic; a crappy writer, ignorant, religiously-bent, poorly-educated, did I mention ignorant, and happily so? She's 90% of the reason I no longer subscribe, or even buy, the Strib anymore. What the hell are they doing giving this christer harpy any space at all? - Steve Hansmann Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:06:50 +0100 http://mnatheists.org/content/view/365/88/#comment-434 "Fire", I find it interesting that you only take issue with the suggestion of God-endorsed rape while evidently accepting God's goal to ethnically cleanse a portion of Israel. Your silence about God ordering Moses to lead a campaign of killing men, women, boys, but sparing only the virgin girls speaks volumes about your moral resignation. Furthermore, I don't know how your pious mind works, "Fire", but my godless mind tells me that killing the parents and siblings of virgin girls then forcing them into marriage in order to have sex with them is the most despicable, maniacal, barbaric form of rape (yes, “rape”) I can think of. Regarding your second comment, given the example of God's crusade to ethnically cleanse Israel of Midianites and Canaanites it seems that the Nazis were in fact modeling their behavior according to the Bible. - Eric Jayne Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:17:38 +0100 http://mnatheists.org/content/view/365/88/#comment-433 For anyone that is interested in hearing both sides in an effort to find truth, a good website is www. reasons.org - Fire Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:18:59 +0100 http://mnatheists.org/content/view/365/88/#comment-432 Anyone can call themselves a Christian. We have free will as human beings. But a real Christian lives according to the Bible. The SS Nazis are not Christians. If you want to identify a Christian, actions speak louder than words. - Fire Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:17:24 +0100 http://mnatheists.org/content/view/365/88/#comment-431 You are misleading or perhaps purposely deceiving your atheist group by twisting the words in the book of Numbers. It did not state that they should rape female children. It said the young virgin women they could keep for themselves. I would interpret this to mean they were suitable for marriage. Why? Because sex outside of marriage is considered fornication, which is unlawful. They are Jews, remember? - Fire Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:14:59 +0100