Thursday, October 01, 2020

Arguing facts about historical atheists with Gnu Atheists on social media

 Two weeks ago, I talked about the "fun" of arguing biblical interpretation with the Religious Right on Twitter.

Now, a flip side.

The background? Esha, who is one of "those people" — a DSA Rosey, still planted inside the Dem Party, but who stans for people like Uncle Joe — Stalin, not Biden. 

I called out a tweet via a podcast that she participates in:

Then someone butted in:

Wrong:

But that didn't stop him:

And I noted:

(Update: I didn't even think about it until now, as prompted by a new Lincoln biography. American coinage says "in God we trust," but contra wingnuts, that doesn't make us a Christian nation.)

But that didn't stop him either:
Followed by:
At this point, to me, it seemed clear he wasn't reading what I was saying and didn't care to. As I pointed out, SS officers were actually required to deny religious beliefs. Troops still identified as such, and big fucking deal, because:

At this point, to me, it seemed clear he wasn't reading what I was saying and didn't care to. First, re positive Xianity?

Related to that? Joseph Goebbels' own words:

And topped by this:

They stopped responding at that point. The reality, per pieces at Wiki and elsewhere, is that Hitler's official personal religious affiliations as an adult aside, he walked, talked and quacked like an atheist, unless per tweet above, Nietzscheanism übermenschen are considered gods within a religion. He rejected Christianity and laughed at Himmler and Rosenberg's neopaganism. Period. The closest I would allow to him not being an atheist is that he was perhaps, metaphysically, some sort of deistic pantheist. Even that is a perhaps. His private-life attacks on atheism seem to be attacks on something that wouldn't allow for the greatness of German blut. Or, even more likely, that as with post-WWII Americans, "godless" and "Communism" were always in the same sentence for Hitler.

Positive Christianity? As it rejects Trinitarianism, plus historical elements of Christian origins, it's not Christian. Claiming that it is, is laughable, especially its misinterpretation of the human Jesus as a crusader against Judaism.

And, Esha as a Rosey who stans for Stalin? 

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