Opinion: Paul Thornton, a Nazi?
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The mailbag’s full of fiery reaction to Paul Thornton’s recent Opinion Daily ‘Stalin was an atheist — so am I’...
From the Holy Land, 24-year-old guy Lior Amsterdamski is relieved by the sanity:
Hello.. my name is Lior, and I’m a 24 year old guy Israel. i just wanted to thank you, for the wonderful column you wrote about atheism. i read it first thing on Thursday morning, and it really made my day :) it’s great to hear such good arguments, and so well written as well. I apologise upfront for my horrible English, but as you’ve probably guessed English is not my native language. anyway, i wanted to let you know that your article meant a lot to me. I’ve heard that in the united states there is a wide spreading open discussion about religion these days, but i must say that in Israel atheists remain a quiet majority.ironically, in a country torn apart by religion, and threatened daily by religious fanatics, most secular people think they should mind their own business and hope that everything will turn up OK, and religion remains a taboo. since being Jewish is also a nationality for Israelis, one shouldn’t even mention religion if he doesn’t want to hurt the status Que. strange place to be living in, i guess. anyway, thanks for an island of reason and logic, in the sea of superstitious lunacy that is out there, sincerely yours, Lior.
In the biggest feat of overpromising since Jesus told an audience at the Bellagio that he could get a camel through the eye of a needle, Robert Landbeck says he’s got a piece of writing worth waiting 2,000 years for:
The players of contemporary God wars now have something to really worrry about. Apodictic Certainty which could blow them all right out of the water. The first new interpretation for two thousand years of the moral teaching of Christ is spreading on the web and it has teeth. Check the link.
Did someone say Hitler? Unfortunately yes, and Judith Abeles replies:
Hitler was not, in fact, an atheist. ‘Mein Kampf’ contains Hitler’s declaration that his mission of destroying the Jews is in the name of god. I don’t have the exact cite handy, but it is easy enough to find.Cordially, Judith Abeles
Finally, Sharon says don’t just remember Hitler for the bad stuff:
How I feel? After learning what atheists did, murdering 110,000,000 in the past century. Their opinion means nothing to me anymore. Their belief system is dirt. It was these murderers and monsters who stood in judgment of their enemy -- the one which could have brought Communism to an end: Hitler. I have no respect for Communism and its decades of lies, deceits, frauds, bloodshed, rape (6 year olds - 80 year olds raped as Red Army poured into Germany, -- est. 2 million women raped.) Don’t ask me to ‘hate’ Hitler ever again. THAT is my opinion. Sharon