June 12, 2010, 09:53 PM
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Join Date: December 8, 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by al Furqaan
OK, let me try to explain this:
Premise = God does not exist.
Hitler: "Jews (and Slavs, communists, homosexuals, gypsies, clincal retards) are bad, therfore exterminating them via genocide is good".
You: "hitler is evil".
do you see that both Hitler and yourself are acting upon your individual consciences?
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Wat?
According to biographer John Toland, Hitler was still "a member in good standing of the Church of Rome despite detestation of its hierarchy, he carried within him its teaching that the Jew was the killer of God. The extermination, therefore, could be done without a twinge of conscience since he was merely acting as the avenging hand of God—so long as it was done impersonally, without cruelty."
The whole justification of killing jews was because of religious reasons, and germans supported him because he gave religious reasons. He didn't go around killing non-germans because they are "bad" or would have got any support to kill simply because they are "bad".
Hitler didn't act on his personal conscious, he did what he did because he found justification in religious belief.
Heinrich Himmler (the Reichsführer of the SS), the person ordered by Adolf Hitler to implement the Final Solution, or Holocaust, told his personal masseur Felix Kersten that he always carried with him a copy of the ancient Aryan scripture, the Bhagavad Gita because it relieved him of guilt about what he was doing — he felt that like the warrior Arjuna, he was simply doing his duty without attachment to his actions.
Last edited by Blah; June 12, 2010 at 11:16 PM..
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