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The Athiest 40 70.18%
 
The creationist 17 29.82%
 
Total:57
kanageddaamen said:
Player1x3 said:
Everyone who was close to Hitler said that he was an atheist. In the public he presented himself as a christian to turn th people agaisnt the Jews. Example from his own book:

To whom should propaganda be addressed? … It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses… The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision. The whole art consists in doing this so skilfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. But since propaganda is not and cannot be the necessity in itself … its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect… it's soundness is to be measured exclusively by its effective result". (Main Kampf, Vol 1, Ch 6 and Ch 12)

The book Hitler's Secret Conversations 1941-1944 published by Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc.first edition, 1953, contains definitive proof of Hitler's real views. The book was published in Britain under the title, _Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944, which title was used for the Oxford University Press paperback edition in the United States.


All of these are quotes from Adolf Hitler:

Night of 11th-12th July, 1941:

National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.... Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things. (p 6 & 7) 

10th October, 1941, midday:

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. (p 43) 

14th October, 1941, midday:

The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.... Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse.... ...the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.... Christianity the liar.... We'll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State. (p 49-52)

...and theres waay more where this came from. Just tell me if you want more quotes and the links

Hitler had the biggest respect for muslim and tradition japanese religions. He also said that it is unfortunate, that the german religion is the Christian one.

The HIGHEST tool for the deaths in Crusades in around 3 million (source:wikipedia) and I used 1.5-2 million mark to be fair. I have no idea what kind of crap Dawkins made you believe.

And you should know this argument very well, because apparently, Middle Age Catholic church represents whole Christianity and every Christian person today...oh wait, double standards are atheist exclusive, right?

And LOL at '' entirely irrelevant''. Communism is a political belief that is agaisnt religion and promotes anti-theism (which is an extreme form of atheism). Are you going to convince me that people were able to follow their religion freely and worship whatever they want in any of those countries led by those people. Sure, they didnt kill people for being ahtiests, but they did for being theists. Thats like saying ''KKK didnt lynch people for being black, they lynched them for not being white !''


None of the quotes you provide show any rejection of a god whatsoever, they just illustrate his disdain for power structures (in this case churches) that may conflict with his own dominance.  Rejection of the Christian church is not a rejection of the belief in god, or even in all of Christian beliefs.  There is no rejection of Jesus as a messiah in there at all.


Iprovided evidence that prove that he despised Christianity...and its pretty obvious that he hated the Jews too.He was also a believe of ''survival of the fittest'' thoery and believed in natural law.

10th October, 1941, midday:

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. (p 43) 

We can assume that in his mind, this can be applied to every religion , and that he hated religion in general

As for rejection of Christ:

The following points are from Bede's Library an article called "Hitler and Christianity by an agnostic and an amateur historian of 20th Century German history, Edward Bartlett-Jones.

A Hitler Youth marching song (Grunberger, A Social History) illustrates it:

We follow not Christ, but Horst Wessel, Away with incense and Holy Water, The Church can go hang for all we care, The Swastika brings salvation on Earth.

(Horst Wessel was an early Nazi party Sturmabteilung street-fighter murdered by communists and turned into a martyr by propaganda chief Josef Goebbels.)

And while I havent given an ultimate proof that he doesnt believe in God, I ve given a pretty strong evidence that is not a christian and is very likely that he was a non-believer.



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Mnementh said:
Player1x3 said:


  • Mao-Tse-Tung, Atheist: 40 million plus dead
  • Joseph Stalin, Atheist: 20 million plus dead
  • Adolf Hitler, Atheist: 15 million dead
  • Vladimir Lenin, Atheist: 5.5 million dead
  • Kim-Il-Sung, Atheist: 5 million dead
  • Pol Pot, Atheist: 2 million dead
  • Fidel Castro, Atheist: 1 million dead

          (all in time span of max 70 years)
Vs.

  • Catholic Inqusition: (time span: 500+ years) 20-30.000 dead
  • The Crusades :  (time span:200+ years) 1.5-2 million dead

Atheist dictators killed millions of people over the past century, and caused more death in a much shorter time span than almost any other catastrophe that has happened in the civilized world, and imprisoned  or murdered hundreds of thousands in an effort to eradicate religion itself, because, you know, mass murder is the inevitable result when a community becomes too intolerant of outlandish dogmas and too fond of critical thinking. Oh the irony!


You compare atheists that killed people with people killed because of Christianity. Nobody was kileld because of Atheism, the killings the people you named did there not because someone did not follow atheism or for bringing atheism. This is the typical hate-speech against atheists. Yes, some bad people were atheists. But atheism was not the reason for the bad things they did.

I already adressed this poin in my previous response.



Player1x3 said:
kanageddaamen said:
Player1x3 said:
Everyone who was close to Hitler said that he was an atheist. In the public he presented himself as a christian to turn th people agaisnt the Jews. Example from his own book:

To whom should propaganda be addressed? … It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses… The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision. The whole art consists in doing this so skilfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. But since propaganda is not and cannot be the necessity in itself … its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect… it's soundness is to be measured exclusively by its effective result". (Main Kampf, Vol 1, Ch 6 and Ch 12)

The book Hitler's Secret Conversations 1941-1944 published by Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc.first edition, 1953, contains definitive proof of Hitler's real views. The book was published in Britain under the title, _Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944, which title was used for the Oxford University Press paperback edition in the United States.


All of these are quotes from Adolf Hitler:

Night of 11th-12th July, 1941:

National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.... Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things. (p 6 & 7) 

10th October, 1941, midday:

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. (p 43) 

14th October, 1941, midday:

The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.... Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse.... ...the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.... Christianity the liar.... We'll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State. (p 49-52)

...and theres waay more where this came from. Just tell me if you want more quotes and the links

Hitler had the biggest respect for muslim and tradition japanese religions. He also said that it is unfortunate, that the german religion is the Christian one.

The HIGHEST tool for the deaths in Crusades in around 3 million (source:wikipedia) and I used 1.5-2 million mark to be fair. I have no idea what kind of crap Dawkins made you believe.

And you should know this argument very well, because apparently, Middle Age Catholic church represents whole Christianity and every Christian person today...oh wait, double standards are atheist exclusive, right?

And LOL at '' entirely irrelevant''. Communism is a political belief that is agaisnt religion and promotes anti-theism (which is an extreme form of atheism). Are you going to convince me that people were able to follow their religion freely and worship whatever they want in any of those countries led by those people. Sure, they didnt kill people for being ahtiests, but they did for being theists. Thats like saying ''KKK didnt lynch people for being black, they lynched them for not being white !''


None of the quotes you provide show any rejection of a god whatsoever, they just illustrate his disdain for power structures (in this case churches) that may conflict with his own dominance.  Rejection of the Christian church is not a rejection of the belief in god, or even in all of Christian beliefs.  There is no rejection of Jesus as a messiah in there at all.


Iprovided evidence that prove that he despised Christianity...and its pretty obvious that he hated the Jews too.He was also a believe of ''survival of the fittest'' thoery and believed in natural law.

10th October, 1941, midday:

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. (p 43) 

We can assume that in his mind, this can be applied to every religion , and that he hated religion in general

As for rejection of Christ:

The following points are from Bede's Library an article called "Hitler and Christianity by an agnostic and an amateur historian of 20th Century German history, Edward Bartlett-Jones.

A Hitler Youth marching song (Grunberger, A Social History) illustrates it:

We follow not Christ, but Horst Wessel, Away with incense and Holy Water, The Church can go hang for all we care, The Swastika brings salvation on Earth.

 

(Horst Wessel was an early Nazi party Sturmabteilung street-fighter murdered by communists and turned into a martyr by propaganda chief Josef Goebbels.)

And while I havent given an ultimate proof that he doesnt believe in God, I ve given a pretty strong evidence that is not a christian and is very likely that he was a non-believer.


Again, due to the forseen power struggle with the church that had reign over much of Europe.  It was propaganda to enforce a generation of people loyal to him above all others.  How does any of this translate to his own personal views and imply atheism?



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Player1x3 said:
beatles1082 said:
Dr.Grass said:
beatles1082 said:


This is the STUPIDEST. Argument in existence. My blood boils when I hear atheists spewing this utter crap. You're just jumping on the exact same bandwagon you're supposedly decrying.


You're just too stupid to see it.

 there's no need to feel threatened by an atheist.   There are still 7 countries where the state can excecute citizens for being an atheist.

  • Mao-Tse-Tung, Atheist: 40 million plus dead
  • Joseph Stalin, Atheist: 20 million plus dead
  • Adolf Hitler, Atheist: 15 million dead
  • Vladimir Lenin, Atheist: 5.5 million dead
  • Kim-Il-Sung, Atheist: 5 million dead
  • Pol Pot, Atheist: 2 million dead
  • Fidel Castro, Atheist: 1 million dead

          (all in time span of max 70 years)
Vs.

  • Catholic Inqusition: (time span: 500+ years) 20-30.000 dead
  • The Crusades :  (time span:200+ years) 1.5-2 million dead

Atheist dictators killed millions of people over the past century, and caused more death in a much shorter time span than almost any other catastrophe that has happened in the civilized world, and imprisoned  or murdered hundreds of thousands in an effort to eradicate religion itself, because, you know, mass murder is the inevitable result when a community becomes too intolerant of outlandish dogmas and too fond of critical thinking. Oh the irony!

Because it was totally their atheism and not their extreme ideologies that were the cause of those genocides. Besides, Hitler was a catholic and so was Mussolini.



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Player1x3 said:
kanageddaamen said:
Player1x3 said:
Everyone who was close to Hitler said that he was an atheist. In the public he presented himself as a christian to turn th people agaisnt the Jews. Example from his own book:

To whom should propaganda be addressed? … It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses… The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision. The whole art consists in doing this so skilfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. But since propaganda is not and cannot be the necessity in itself … its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect… it's soundness is to be measured exclusively by its effective result". (Main Kampf, Vol 1, Ch 6 and Ch 12)

The book Hitler's Secret Conversations 1941-1944 published by Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc.first edition, 1953, contains definitive proof of Hitler's real views. The book was published in Britain under the title, _Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944, which title was used for the Oxford University Press paperback edition in the United States.


All of these are quotes from Adolf Hitler:

Night of 11th-12th July, 1941:

National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.... Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things. (p 6 & 7) 

10th October, 1941, midday:

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. (p 43) 

14th October, 1941, midday:

The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.... Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse.... ...the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.... Christianity the liar.... We'll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State. (p 49-52)

...and theres waay more where this came from. Just tell me if you want more quotes and the links

Hitler had the biggest respect for muslim and tradition japanese religions. He also said that it is unfortunate, that the german religion is the Christian one.

The HIGHEST tool for the deaths in Crusades in around 3 million (source:wikipedia) and I used 1.5-2 million mark to be fair. I have no idea what kind of crap Dawkins made you believe.

And you should know this argument very well, because apparently, Middle Age Catholic church represents whole Christianity and every Christian person today...oh wait, double standards are atheist exclusive, right?

And LOL at '' entirely irrelevant''. Communism is a political belief that is agaisnt religion and promotes anti-theism (which is an extreme form of atheism). Are you going to convince me that people were able to follow their religion freely and worship whatever they want in any of those countries led by those people. Sure, they didnt kill people for being ahtiests, but they did for being theists. Thats like saying ''KKK didnt lynch people for being black, they lynched them for not being white !''


None of the quotes you provide show any rejection of a god whatsoever, they just illustrate his disdain for power structures (in this case churches) that may conflict with his own dominance.  Rejection of the Christian church is not a rejection of the belief in god, or even in all of Christian beliefs.  There is no rejection of Jesus as a messiah in there at all.


Iprovided evidence that prove that he despised Christianity...and its pretty obvious that he hated the Jews too.He was also a believe of ''survival of the fittest'' thoery and believed in natural law.

10th October, 1941, midday:

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. (p 43) 

We can assume that in his mind, this can be applied to every religion , and that he hated religion in general

As for rejection of Christ:

The following points are from Bede's Library an article called "Hitler and Christianity by an agnostic and an amateur historian of 20th Century German history, Edward Bartlett-Jones.

A Hitler Youth marching song (Grunberger, A Social History) illustrates it:

We follow not Christ, but Horst Wessel, Away with incense and Holy Water, The Church can go hang for all we care, The Swastika brings salvation on Earth.

 

(Horst Wessel was an early Nazi party Sturmabteilung street-fighter murdered by communists and turned into a martyr by propaganda chief Josef Goebbels.)

And while I havent given an ultimate proof that he doesnt believe in God, I ve given a pretty strong evidence that is not a christian and is very likely that he was a non-believer.

And that is more opf anti-atheistic hate you add. That is the point to discuss the religion or not of Hitler? He did not kill people for any religion or for atheism, so bringing Hitler or Communism into this discussion is clearly Off-Topic, to avoid the real questions here. It is not important if Hilter was an atheist or not. Important would it be, if Nazis explained their killings with atheism - and they did not.



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SlayerRondo said:
Player1x3 said:
beatles1082 said:
Dr.Grass said:
beatles1082 said:

 


This is the STUPIDEST. Argument in existence. My blood boils when I hear atheists spewing this utter crap. You're just jumping on the exact same bandwagon you're supposedly decrying.


You're just too stupid to see it.

 there's no need to feel threatened by an atheist.   There are still 7 countries where the state can excecute citizens for being an atheist.

  • Mao-Tse-Tung, Atheist: 40 million plus dead
  • Joseph Stalin, Atheist: 20 million plus dead
  • Adolf Hitler, Atheist: 15 million dead
  • Vladimir Lenin, Atheist: 5.5 million dead
  • Kim-Il-Sung, Atheist: 5 million dead
  • Pol Pot, Atheist: 2 million dead
  • Fidel Castro, Atheist: 1 million dead

          (all in time span of max 70 years)
Vs.

  • Catholic Inqusition: (time span: 500+ years) 20-30.000 dead
  • The Crusades :  (time span:200+ years) 1.5-2 million dead

Atheist dictators killed millions of people over the past century, and caused more death in a much shorter time span than almost any other catastrophe that has happened in the civilized world, and imprisoned  or murdered hundreds of thousands in an effort to eradicate religion itself, because, you know, mass murder is the inevitable result when a community becomes too intolerant of outlandish dogmas and too fond of critical thinking. Oh the irony!


Youre argument is fundamentaly flawed in its comparison of some of the worst tragedies commited by athiest (noting hitler was a roman catholic) to those commited in the name of christianity. 

I already disputed this non sense multiple times by now

The reason I say that it is flawed is that athiesm is just people not believing in the existence of a god and does not provide as religion does divine instructions on what an individual must do or can do in the name of that particular religion. 

Oh no, that wasnt my point. I believe neither Atheism or Christianity are in favour of murder. My point was, that the killing arguments can be both applied to christian and atheist authority during history. I was just replying to ''you shouldnt ever fear an atheist killing and starting wars'' comment. I dont think either beliefe, atheism or christianity are responsible for murders. Its the followers, not the ideology.

At best the argument can be made that thoose mass murders did the things they did partly to rid the world of religion. But all of them (bar hitler who was only killing jews because they were his scapegoat) tried to rid the world of religion because they percieved it as a threat to their authority. The obvious reason that they saw it as a threat was that it was so similar to their own power structures that demanded complete unquestioning authority.

And The Holy See saw Arab Empires and Muslims to be the treat of their authority...so whats the difference again?

And lets not forget Hirohito the emperor of Japan who did not only believe in god but rather believed himself to be a god who did terrible things and commended people to do terrible things. 

I agree, but i hardly see what this has to do with the topic

Just because someone kills people to spread an ideal does not mean that that ideal is wrong or leads people to evil but rather reflects on the people who choose to adopt such inhumane tactics to spread such ideals. For examplemany people were killed in the was for independance as well but does that mean that the idea of American independance was wrong?

I agree completly. But then again, why do i always hear this argument coming up only when atheism is put in bad light?

Religion on the other hand gives people instructions of what to believe and what to do that cannot be questioned as they are the divine word of the lord and to do so would be blasphemy. Sure there are thoose who do not believe everything there bible says but to them I say if you think part of it is wrong why dont you believe all of it could be wrong? 

Divine word of the Lord is also ''Do not kill'' and Love thy neighbour and many many more...so the only way this can translate into killin people is by wrong interpretations and fundamentalism

What you're argument fails to do is prove causation rather than correlation since the actions of thoose people on your list are clearly done in the name of maniacal dictators (which they most certainly were)

...and same can be said about crusades

I dont believe that christinas who do things they were not told to do in the bible should be used as examples of why christianity is bad. But thoose who use arguments put forth by their religious text or the commands of their religious leaders will damm well be used to show why religions are a dangerous force in the world today.

 





The point remains, an absence of religious faith was never the initiator of any war or any atrocity. The same cannot be said about a presence of religious faith.



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Atheists and Theists will be battling each other for the rest of time. Many say, "through scientific study we will some day be able to discover whether there is an existence or lack of existence of a 'Creator God'. It will tell us who is correct and who is incorrect."

The problem with this, however is that Science cannot prove what is in the supernatural realm. Science can only study within the laws of the universe from which it uses as its boundaries. Science is used to determine what can be known through its uses of measurements, calculations, Physics, observation, laws of nature, ect. Science can only operate in laws of consistency. If the laws of the universe were ever changing then Science could not operate properly. Knowledge itself would be unreliable.

If a 'Creator God' does indeed exist then that being would most certainly have supernatural powers if He was able to create matter, the universe, laws of physics and nature, gravity, ect. If the 'Creator God' did not create the laws of the universe, matter, laws of physics and nature, ect. then that would mean those laws would have been set in place before His existence. In other words the 'Creator God' would have come into existence as a result of those laws in place. The laws of physics and the universe establish a set of guidelines and order. without them knowledge and reason cannot exist.

How can there be order or a set of laws and guidelines without a form of intelligent intervention to create those laws and guidelines? If there is no intelligent intervention to determine those laws then within the bounds of Science it defies logic. Matter exists today. we know that through observation. so then it is an unanswerable question to ask, "how did the environment and laws of physics (the foundation and makeup if you will) for matter to form exist without some kind of intelligent influence to establish those laws?" The ability to have heat, friction, the foundation of physics, the original makeup to develop more and more complex entities through time...how did those forms of order and laws of the universe ever become realities without intelligent intervention? One cannot simply answer those questions without simply saying that those products always existed for infinity of time and were never instituted. But to give that answer is to defy logic and reason, is it not?

Some atheists say, "well you cannot simply explain away our existence through an even further complex being that created everything." , because then logic would dictate that you would have an infinity amount of creators in order to have the existence of a complex being that created the universe. But it even further defies logic to say that we have the laws of the universe, the foundation and environment for physics, knowledge, matter, ect to exist without an intelligent influence to form those guidelines of order and laws.

Either the laws and makeup for the universe have existed for infinity of time without any intelligent influence to establish those laws (which defies reason and logic), or a supernatural omnipotent being who has existed for infinity time who cannot simply be fully comprehended or understood by our minds established those laws that made it possible for our universe to exist with complex entities. We know what we can observe. We can observe that we have a product, a universe, complex life forms, laws of nature. We see results of something. The results of something with the intelligence to establish their ability to exist. Through observation one can know the existence of an intelligent creator.




Existence is predicated upon observation. Have you observed God? Can you form a test in which God would be proven to exist? No, you cannot. Thus, God does not exist, cannot exist in our physical World, and cannot be proven to exist. Simple science.



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