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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
No no no, everything Hitler ever had even a remote connection with is automatically and permanently linked with EVIL.
Certainly, I've heard the argument (to me personally) made that Hitler was an atheist and therefore all atheists become evil if they don't start believing. But it's like making that argument to prove there aren't any atheists, it just doesn't make sense.
No no no, everything Hitler ever had even a remote connection with is automatically and permanently linked with EVIL.
Not quite everything. Leather coats are still cool. But little mustaches, vegetarianism, and landscape painting are pretty suspect.
Goddamnit, was trying to buy an airline ticket and the price went up just as I was about to purchase. Graargh.
That is also Hitler's fault.
That sounds more like Darwin's fault to me (survival of the fittest and all).
Survival of the better planners, at least.
Survival of the airlines? At least that's how they justify it.
OK, this weather is getting crazier. According to all the weather sites I've checked, Salem is now 100 degrees, but Boston is back down into the low 90s. Minor difference, but Salem is farther north and even more coastal, so it's usually 3-7 degrees cooler than Boston, like, just about always. Is this hellish weather moving north?
I feel compelled to say there's no particular evidence that Hilter was an atheist. From what I've researched his theology was pretty whack, making it hard to classify as any particular thing. But, the argument that was made to me was that he had to be an atheist in order to be capable of what he did.
Certainly, I've heard the argument (to me personally) made that Hitler was an atheist and therefore all atheists become evil if they don't start believing. But it's like making that argument to prove there aren't any atheists, it just doesn't make sense.
I've mostly heard "Hitler/Stalin was an athiest" in response to "all evil in the world ever was caused by religion".
Because there was never any such thing as the Inquisition or witch trials @@.
"all evil in the world ever was caused by religion"
Well, that's a pretty ridiculous argument to make as well. Has evil been caused by religion? Yes. All the evil ever? Probably not.