Which Atheist Conference speaker gave this address?
“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 teaching in conflict with the interests of the State.”
Answer tonight
Well... you changed the post during the day. That kind of spoils the surprise, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteSo of course, the answer is: the Atheist model, the great, the one and only... Adolf Hitler! Peace be upon him! Oh no wait, that's for Mohammed ;)
Ya, I screwed up. I should have put more thought into the post.
ReplyDeleteOf course Hitler was no atheist, neither was he a Christian. Sure would fit something any of the atheist leaders might say though.
Not an atheist for sure, as he referred to a higher supernatural power quite often apparently.
ReplyDeleteNot Christian either according to the quote you posted... what I don't understand though is why some influential Christians at the time were on his side? We all saw the pictures of these bishops or whatever they were shaking hand and smiling along his side. They knew he was not a Christian and did not care, or he gave the impression that he was?
What's an atheist leader? There is no such thing as far as I know. You mean 'famous atheists' perhaps?
“I don't understand though is why some influential Christians at the time”
ReplyDeleteThen you don't have a very good understanding of human nature. And it depends a lot on what you mean, “at the time.” Of course I can't know because I wasn't there, but from what I've read, the support he received was due to human nature. People in general were caught up in the hype of Hitler restoring Germany to its former glory that was lost after its humiliating defeat in WWI. When his true nature and plan began to show, again, human nature was to believe that it couldn't be true. There was fear and the false believe that if you placate a monster, all will be well. Christians are no less cowardly than anyone else.
Beyond that, check into how many Christian leaders were killed by Hitler because of their opposition to him and their refusal to follow his plan and it will become obvious that his “support” by Christians was far, far from the majority.
Actually I do understand enough about human nature to get exactly what you mean... so you are correct that the real question is more about what 'at the time' means, and I don't know myself.
ReplyDeleteWhat my question meant (and you cannot know more than me, it's just an open question...) is whether the influential priests or bishops or whatever, considered him a Christian or not, even AFTER he started killing innocent people, which he started doing pretty early in his political career...
I just find it too easy, too simple, to say 'duh.... of course he was no Christian, he would not kill all these people otherwise!'
Throughout history, we got tons of people who killed in the name of their religion, Christianity included, and it's a dishonest over-simplification to claim that they were not Christians because of their action.
That's why I personally don't care if someone is Christian; I care about what they do and say...
Anyway, that was my 2-cent of the day :)