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      As long as enough people are narcissistic and lack empathy, this will happen. Because at the end of the day, conservatism is narcissism. As is easily demonstrated in all tthe “leaporads ate my face” social media groups. Where you can see them cheering something on when it’s hurting others, and then crying as soon as it impacts themselves or someone close to them.

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        Yeah. Iranians have a shitty government, but in all honesty they’ve been kind of pulled into all kind of bullshit most of the time. If you look at history, they’ve rather rarely been the aggressor.

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        Does Netenyahu represent Judaism? Trump stands for Christianity? Khomini for Islam? Hitler for Atheism?

        No, none of them is religious they each abuse an extreme version of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or even Athisim as well. They prey and indoctrinate their audiance with shitty idologies to stay in power through it. In case of Athiesm, China replaced religon with a cult of patrioty through which they could justify their minority genocide and the endless list of CCP oppression.

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          Hitler for Atheism?

          Fucking what?

          No, none of them is religious they each abuse an extreme version of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or even Athisim as well.

          What is this bullshit? Is this the narrative now? Hitler did what he did because of “extreme atheism”?

          Absolutely ahistorical fucking horse shit

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            read the comment above. it’s still subjective,(because you’re arguing about what a person might have believed from the inside), but it explains what seemed to be hitler’s real religious views. It was an extreme version of panthism.

            These cult leaders come up with extreme evil idologies under the name of any religon and it even happens in the name of Atheism, or anti-religon itself. China committed multiple genocides against religious minorities like the Falun Gong and Ugyher Muslims in the name of anti-religion and cult of national patrioty.

            So in conclusion, evil extreme idologies can come from and in the name of good religon of faith, or can even come from good lack-of-faith, and that’s why you should not blame neither demonize nor bomb people just because of their general faith of religon or atheism.

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              You say he was, and then post an article that concludes

              it seems evident his religion was closest to pantheism

              and then talks about how he constantly talked about god as this or god as that. Pantheism is not Atheism and the constant babbling of what god does or wants as if it was fact he exists certainly isn’t either.

              Then there’s “Mein Kampf” where Hitler himself talks about continuing “the work of the Lord”.

              So glaube ich heute im Sinne des allmächtigen Schöpfers zu handeln: Indem ich mich des Juden erwehre, kämpfe ich für das Werk des Herren.

              So today I believe I am acting in the spirit of the almighty Creator: By resisting the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

              This senctence is in basically every german history schoolbook.

              A speech of him from 1927:

              Wir müssen Gott dan­ken für diese Gnade. (…) Gott hat Völker, aber keine Klassen geschaffen.

              We must thank God for this grace. (…) God created peoples, not classes.

              And a speech from 1939:

              Es sei „eine Anmaßung, anzunehmen, daß der liebe Gott die Welt nur für ein oder zwei Völker geschaffen habe.“

              It is “presumptuous to assume that the dear/good Lord created the world only for one or two peoples.”

              “Der liebe Gott” is a german christian notion I cannot find a good translation for.

              Spoken like a real Atheist, eh?

              Hitler constantly talks about God, what he thinks he wants him to do or what would serve his (Gods) purpose. Hitler. Was. Not. An. Atheist.

              Every attempt to make him a “not christian” comes down to “no true scotsman”, as you skillfully demonstrate:

              he was preaching an extreme idology that did not belong to any religon

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                Good writeup man, but it’s still subjective because you may have proved what he showed, but not really what he stood for and believed inside. He lied about talking to god to comit horrible crimes then took his own life when felt surrounded. Every action there really concludes that he really believed that there is no god aka an atheist. Btw similarly I can prove to you that David Miscavige really believes in that Scientology spaceship coming at the end of times. I can quote him and show that all ot David Miscavige 100% belives in the narrative of scientoligy, while both of us we know this criminal scum indocrinated his followers with evil ideas for his benefit and that he actually inside does not belive in that scientology stuff… but thatwill remain subjective still. That’s why I know and think Hitler was an Atheist. it doesnt mean atheism is bad or that we should demonize atheists.

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                  but it’s still subjective because you may have proved what he showed, but not really what he stood for and believed inside

                  A thing no one can do.

                  He lied about talking to god

                  Opinion with no base. One could say >subjective

                  Every action there really concludes that he really believed that there is no god aka an atheist

                  Thats both, opinion with no base and bullshit. Christians (or believers of any religion) do and have done horrible things. Being a christian / theist does not stop you from being a bad person. You want to tell me that Hitler was no true scotsman?

                  Btw similarly I can prove to you that David Miscavige really believes in that Scientology spaceship coming at the end of times. I can quote him and show that all ot David Miscavige 100% belives in the narrative of scientoligy

                  And thats all you can do, because you, just like me, can not tell what people think or believe.

                  while both of us we know (…) that he actually inside does not belive in that scientology stuff

                  I don’t. And I think it’s arrogant to pretend to know what someone believes when he states other.

                  this criminal scum indocrinated his followers with evil ideas for his benefit

                  Not a thing a believer couldn’t do. Actually a thing believers quite often do.

                  but thatwill remain subjective still

                  Agree.

                  That’s why I know and think Hitler was an Atheist

                  You don’t know, you just think. And for what we have left on the table to examine, you’re wrong.

                  it doesnt mean atheism is bad or that we should demonize atheists

                  Yet, believers commonly use the lie of “Hitler beeing atheist” as an example for atheists beeing bad people.

                  In conclusion, once again, a pretty wordy “no true scotsman”

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            I thought Hitler was some sort of vegan atheist with a little sprinkle of occult Arayan BS? Christian trappings were for the masses and rank and file?

            Personal general impression, no source.

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              He wasn’t a member of a major religious group, but he was definitely not an atheist. There has been a tremendous effort to sanitize Hitler’s image, and that of the Nazi’s in general, into something less problematic for the images of a great many groups/organizations they were associated with (look up the ‘clean wehrmacht’ myth if you want to see how this works). Since showing Hitler was a staunch supporter of your opponent’s viewpoint would be an instant victory in basically any discussion, and revulsion of atheists is one of those rare things religions can generally all agree about, the two get lumped together not infrequently.

              It’s… unpleasant, to say the least.

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    “Father Abraham had many dumbs, and many dumbs had father Abraham…”

    It makes me sad I know the song, still.

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      They’re really not values… It’s history. The old testament is a story of people becoming better over generations, and the ebb and flow of it

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        The old testament is a story…

        The whole thing is a story and shouldn’t be taken seriously but here we are. People like to pick and choose which parts of the story are worth following. Old or new testament doesn’t matter, believe in one then you have to believe in the other.

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    Seniority should demote individuals, from positions of power, to those of advisory.

    Privilege readily blinds those who experience it.

    Authoritarianism is most attractive to the weakest.

    Religion is the most destructive human invention.

    I’m not into kink shaming, unless practicing it inflicts harm in a non-consensual manner.

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    Peak lib shit. Y’all can’t tell the difference between imperial genocide and its victims. This is why y’all keep losing.

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      Well modern Iran is built on persecutions. Be it Zoroastrians, Jews, Christians, Mandaeism, Ba’hai all were persecuted, even sunni and sufi muslim also persecuted.

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    Their governments should just rotate each leader once in a while just to keep things fun … I doubt anyone would notice or that it would change world politics