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2009-12-28 12:37:38 Excellent.
and er... God bless you! —NormanNitram
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2010-07-03 01:09:57 The Danger of Crusading Atheists David Gelernter
Writer, Artist, & Computer Scientist
The Second World War was a difficult a crisis as mankind ever will face. Fifty million people died, humanity teetered on the edge. State paganism was preached aggressively by Hitler-ite Germany, which despised Christianity as much as it hated Jews; didn’t hate Christians as people, but it hated Christianity. The Japanese empire, which revived state paganism in preference to the more sophisticated religion of Buddhism and Christianity that had been popular in Japan. Stalinist Russia, which was an aggressively pagan nation, suppressed Christianity. That was a crisis. That was an enormous crisis and we rose to the occasion. We defeated it. It damaged us, we still bear the scars. I think we’re going to face a crisis in the coming century that will be different in character. Crises never—we never see the same crisis twice. I know we have the moral strength to rise to the occasion, and I hope and pray that we do in practice. —PerigGouanvic
2010-07-03 22:38:49 "State paganism was preached aggressively by Hitler-ite Germany, which despised Christianity as much as it hated Jews;" - what's all this about? Part of the secret for Hitler was that he got the Catholic church to support him... —docmartin
2010-07-04 23:38:58 But state paganism remains important in explaining the attraction of the Nazi regime? I dunno, just a question. —PerigGouanvic
2010-07-12 22:15:55 My 'guess' would be that paganism and 'worship of the State' (as desired by the Nazis for sure) are opposed... —docmartin
2010-07-13 03:48:16 Perhaps it's just bad wording. Both with Stalin and Hitler, there is a sort of atheist vacuum, filled by the leader.
Then, 'paganism' should be replaced by atheism. —PerigGouanvic
2010-07-17 19:38:20 Yes, don't want to mix them up! Actually, the Nazis seem to have encouraged 'folk' beliefs, so they could be said to be Paganists, but I rather think Stalin was into Stalin worship only...
