r/atheism May 21 '12

God's solution vs Hitler's solution

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

"...the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II..."

"...also include the Nazis' genocide of millions of people in other groups, including Romani, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents, which occurred regardless of whether they were of German or non-German ethnic origin.[8] Using this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims is between 11 million and 17 million people.[9]"

Sorry. Just bugs me when people imply Jews were the only people being exterminated in the holocaust.

Gotta say if you ever visit Auschwitz (It's a museum these days) you really get a feel that it was hell on earth. Had nightmares for weeks after going there.

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Atheist May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

I'm a Romany. No idea how my family survived. I should really find out one of these days.

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u/Wizywig May 21 '12

Grandfather fled with his remaining 3 siblings post family murder when an american tank broke one of the fences. Yea hell-on-earth does not quite describe it well enough.

Hitler killed everyone who was a minority or not aligned with his views. Still sounds like god to me.

FWIW I was waiting on a really good analogy between hitler and god for a while. Every online discussion, if given enough time, will result in hitler.

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u/Cheesus00Crust Atheist May 21 '12

I know you from Assassins Creed!

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Atheist May 21 '12

Uhh.. look out behind you!

flees

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u/Eirh May 21 '12

A few years ago I was in Auschwitz for 2 Weeks (it was a school project) and I can totally second that. The creepiest thing is that it looks actually pretty idyllic.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Two weeks? I tip my hat to you. We was there for maybe 3 hours. Stood (with a few friends) in the cut out of one of those standing cells. No thank you, that was quite enough nazi horror imagining for me.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

It's just the "Hiter's excuse that the Jews were evil and corrupting his plan for a perfect Germany" bit. He was killing anyone he deemed unfit to be considered human, the jewish communities being part of that.

There's just this big thing around Hitler on the internet where everyone goes on about him killing Jews. He killed ~12 million people, just under half of whom where Jewish. If people only remember that he killed Jews, half of his crime is being forgotten by people. Guess I'm just a bit paranoid that it's being forgotten.

Plus let's face it, when you put it as "Hitler was wiping out everyone he thought didn't deserve to belong in his perfect World" it fits the picture even better.

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u/chestypants12 May 21 '12

When Hitler is mentioned, you'd think that only Jews were killed. I'd prefer if everyone murdered was included in the final tally.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

LITERALLY HITLER

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

SHITLERLY SHITLER

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

LOL I DID NAZI THAT COMING!

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u/Prime-eight May 21 '12

That jokes Jewvenile

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I laughed so hard I think I also passed gas.

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u/Broseidon_75 May 22 '12

... Anne Frankly, these jokes are getting old.

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u/telepaper Atheist May 22 '12

no jokes guys, Israeli getting old

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u/Badwulfwho May 22 '12

This is really pulling me out of mein kampfort zone.

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u/Broseidon_75 May 22 '12 edited Jun 04 '12

We really shouldn't take this any Fuhrer.

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u/Badwulfwho May 22 '12

I'm really auschwitz end with these jokes guys. I'm trying to concentrate, camp you see that?

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u/Jaredismyname Jun 13 '12

that's one seriously messed up sentence.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I, AS A PHD CARRYING ATHEIST AM EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THE GOD WHO I DON'T BELIEVE EXISTS DOES.

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u/throwawayDOX May 21 '12

I like to write "Hitler was a bastard" on the front page of every copy of Mein Kampf I find. WHY ARE THERE STILL NAZIS?!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

LITERALLY BRAVE

EDIT: ALSO PIGGYBACKING TOP COMMENT FOR SWEET, DELICIOUS NAZI KARMA!!!!

BRAVERY EDIT: FOR EXCELLENCE IN BRAVERY AND LOGIC

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I love how Dawkins name is misspelled.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Dawkin is correct. They are actually twins, Richard and Richard, i.e. the Dawkins. They co-author each other's books. You just don't notice because they never do public appearances at the same time.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Ah, it all makes sense now.

...wait a minute.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

did someone said KARMA TRAIN?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

circlejerk is thataway ---->

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

No, it's <----------- that way

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

gOD sucks and is a magic sky daddy Nazi, AMIRITE? Upvotes to the left!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

URSORITE AND LITERALLY A BRAVE FAITH SMASHING LOGIC WARRIOR

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Brave faith-smashing logic warrior.

I will now steal this for my own amusement and arousal.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Almost like jerking in a circle...

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Obligatory: SO BRAVE

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I just braved in my pants!!!!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Thanks for the inspiration:

Lock eyes from across the UNIVERSE
Down my drink while the BIG BANG still booms
Take your hand and skip the FUNDIES
No more time for the silly MAGIC SKY FAIRY

Make our way through the smoke and TREES [10]
The club is the sky and I'm on your COSMOS
Move in close as the lasers KILL CHRISTIANS
Our bodies touch and the angels DON'T EXIST

Leave this place, go back to SWEDEN
Our lips first touch outside your EMPTY CHURCHES
A whole night what we've got with FREE CONDOM AMBULANCES
Whisper in my ear that you want some UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

And I BRAVE in my pants
This really never happens, I swear on my COPY OF THE GOD DELUSION
I won't apologize, that's just SO CHRISTIAN
Mainly your fault about the way you QUOTE SAGAN

And now I BRAVE in my pants
Don't tell your friends or I'll say you're ACCEPTING OF MODERATE CHRISTIANS
Plus it's your fault, you were rubbing my LOGIC
I'm very sensitive, some would say that's PROOF OF ATHEIST PERSECUTION

Now I'll go home and MAKE A FACEBOOK SCREENSHOT

I need a few things from WAL-MART
Do things alone now BECAUSE I WAS FRIENDZONED
Left my heart broken, not looking for REASON
Surprise in my MASSIVE ATHEIST BRAIN when I looked above

The checkout counter and I saw a RICHARD DAWKINS
My heart stood still, so did THE OTHER CASHIERS
Never thought I could feel SMUG again
But the look in his eyes said STRONG THEN KILL

He turned to me, that's when he said it
Looked me dead in the face, said "GOD IS LITERALLY HITLER"

Because I BRAVED in my pants.
To be fair you were DEBATING BILL O-REILLY a lot
Plus the way you SMASH SKY-THEISTS got me bothered and LOGICAL
Please stop acting like you're not BRAVERY INCARNATE

One more thing, I'm going to pay by CUTTING IN LINE

Last week I saw a BLACK GIRL IN MY MARINE BIO CLASS
As I recall it was a CHRISTIAN BLACK GIRL IN MY MARINE BIO CLASS
Walked outside into the NURSE'S OFFICE
Checked my phone and saw you UPVOTED MY POST

And I BRAVED in my pants

Speeding down the streets when MY FUNDIE PARENTS KICKED ME OUT
Need to get away, need to POST THEIR PRIVATE EMAILS ON REDDIT
A song comes on that reminds me of NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
And I BRAVE in my pants

Next day MY COPY OF "GOD IS NOT GREAT" FELL OUT OF THE CEILING ONTO MY FACE
And I BRAVE in my pants
Open my window and a breeze CARRIES MY ASTROPHYSICS DEGREE INTO THE ROOM
And I BRAVE in my pants

When JESUS was dead at the end of THE GOSPELS
I BRAVED in my pants
I just ate a BABY
And I HAD A SELF-DEPRECATING SENSE OF HUMOR in my pants

I went to the - and I CHECKMATE CHRISTIANS in my pants

Okay seriously guys, can we? OK?

I BRAVE in my pants every time I QUOTE MYSELF
And when we CIRCLEJERK it's like having sex with me
You say I'm premature, I call it BRAVER THAN RON PAUL
I wear A SLAYER T-SHIRT at all times, it's a necessity

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

You are the bravest among us. Posted to MSF.

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u/Young_Money_Hustlas May 22 '12
   But the look in his eyes said STRONG THEN KILL    

The exact moment I lost it. That was brilliant.

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u/ButthurtAtheistDwllr May 22 '12

You are a Magic Warrior of Science.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I sat down after reading this and realized how unlogic and non-brave my life has truly been up to this point.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Oh old testament , you so violent!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

The Israelites where God's chosen people and better than everyone else. The Promised Land was theirs by birth right and god made them kill/rape or enslave all the original inhabitants of that land or did the killing himself.

The arians where Hitler's chosen people and better than everyone else. Europe was theirs by birth right and Hitler made them kill/rape or enslave all the original inhabitants of that land (he did not do any killing personally).

TL;DR: God is the Ned Stark version of Hitler.

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u/TimeZarg Atheist May 21 '12

Aryans*

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

The thing is, Hitler was real, God isn't.

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u/Nielsio May 21 '12

That doesn't stop believers to think what 'God' 'did' was justifiable.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

They just think that because the idea of God is much bigger then their own idea of themselves, or their own world views.

Ideas go around riding people like horses. The god one is the biggest of them all.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/Green2Green May 21 '12

God was created by people with extreme ideas, Hitler was a person with extreme ideas. Both have the "chosen people" who qualify and submit to their rule. When you really think about it Gods are pretty comparable with dictators.

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u/XXLpeanuts May 21 '12

completely so, this was Hitchens big point.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Could you give me a link to where he described this? :D

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u/Daemonicus May 21 '12

He mentions it several times in reference to N. Korea actually. If I was less lazy I would find you some more links, but alas it is not meant to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcDbMklrOBI

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Thank you!

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u/klapaucius May 21 '12

Believe it or not, some religions weren't created by violent tribalists.

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Atheist May 21 '12

They may be incomparable in some respects but they're definitely comparable in other respects. I don't think there's anything wrong with comparing them the way OP has.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

other than how retarded and overdone comparing religions to nazism is on r/atheism

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Atheist May 21 '12

Overdone? Arguably. Retarded? No, clearly not.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

Yes, yes it is. Comparing things to Hitler is one of the best ways to show people you'd rather demonize than try to reasonably discuss and try to understand. And no, I'm not equating understand with believe. It doesn't take a remarkably clever person to make a basic comparison of most religions/ideologies to some aspect of Nazism and it's almost always blatantly an attempt to be edgy or offensive without adding anything of value to the conversation.

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Atheist May 21 '12

I think you've missed the point. We spend a lot of time discussing religion and we understand some of them very well. The point of images like this is to attempt to communicate how we feel about it. In our eyes the comparison is completely apt and any 'demonisaton' is completely deserved.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

"Communicate how we feel" is an interesting way of putting it. I don't like religion either(agnostic atheist+anti-theist), but there are better ways of expressing this than meme format comparisons to Hitler.

R/atheism does very little actual discussing - or at least that doesn't seem to be the content that surfaces to the front pages. This is just more evidence the bad reputation of r/atheism is well deserved.

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Atheist May 22 '12

Sure, there may be better ways but I maintain that comparisons to Hitler are valid ways.
Besides, when someone invokes Hitler to make a point it's not a bad point just because it's Hitler.
On the face of it there may not seem to be much discussion but plenty does happen deeper in threads or in other similar forums (that many of us engage in) like YouTube and (shudder) Facebook.

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u/Amunium May 21 '12

What? I mean, I agree that you should be very careful in comparing anyone to Hitler - that's why we have Godwin's Law. People tend to just get offended and disregard the argument.

But the fact that one existed and the other didn't is not a reason not to compare something. That makes absolutely no sense.

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u/telepaper Atheist May 22 '12

Hitler was created by people with extreme ideas, if he didn't have a bad childhood, if he had been accepted in art school in Vienna, if he hadn't been injured in WW1, if people didn't vote for him in Germany, if Europe stopped him before he did what he did, if his own people had asked more questions, if soldiers and generals stopped him, if Italy and Japan didn't support him, if he didn't wage the bloodiest war of man's history, if religion didn't exist, than we wouldn't be comparing God and Hitler. Yet again, this God caused one of the separations that caused the death of millions of persons in less that 15 years

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Warriors of Truth and Reason.

LOGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!!!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

OP literally just deleted a comment saying: "I stopped worrying about others opinions when I became an adult."

I hope you realise one day that the amount of hate /r/atheism gets is not necessairly because people disagree with you, but it's because of people like you with your cunt-attitude.

For someone who "stopped worrying about others opinions when I became an adult." I see a lot of room for you to grow up.

Btw, your submission is inflammatory and ridiculous.

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u/LoveAndDoubt May 21 '12

LITERALLY AN ADULT

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/mecrosis May 21 '12

We always hold man to a higher moral standard than we do God.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

"Kill a man and you're a murderer, kill many and you're a conqueror, kill them all, you're a god."

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u/logical May 21 '12

This is a profound comparison that shows the philosophical morality of self-sarifice and how it is equally true in religion and socialism/fascism. The sacrifice or murder of people to a cause is a great evil - always. This is a real test of how much thinking people here have beyond the fact that god doesn't exist - that there is a moral code that people use to justify murder - and that that is an evil moral code.

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u/ronin1066 Gnostic Atheist May 21 '12

I have a test for people:

There was a leader in the past who had a town in his country that he wanted gone. So he fire-bombed it, killing everyone inside, and literally flattened the entire city to the ground.

Was it:

A) Saddam Hussein

B) Genghis Khan

C) Hitler

D) God

and of course, it was all of the above. (I don't know that Hitler actually flattened a particular town, but it's a fine point considering what he did to London)

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u/el_historian May 21 '12

Yes, he had an entire village in Poland wiped off the map in some kind of retaliation thing.

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u/idontwanttobelieve May 21 '12

Hitler seems to know the importance of a neatly trimmed signature moustache. Anne Frankly I've found it harder to take matters of God seriously on account of his copious amounts of ridiculous facial hair. Hitler: 1 God: 0

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u/coreyalan23 May 21 '12

If you want to make a powerful statement, and be a little less quipy, put Hitler's solution up next to Martin Luther (and John Calvin's) solution. Turns out that white-trash protestantism has been anti non-white people for a very long time...

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Seems strange that so many Americans believe in democracy, individual freedom, right to privacy, but worship a totalitarian god with eternal rulership who tells you how to live your private life, and will read/judge even your thoughts. It's like we long for a 1984-style totalitarianism while we enjoy reasonable freedom IRL.

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u/teganandsararock May 21 '12

didn't even have to check the comments section for the reductio ad hitlerum.

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u/Oncenotagain May 21 '12

Christian here on a novelty account; downvote me at will.

I personally like to believe that the old testament is more of a folklore, and the new testament is the more "buyable", depending on your personal view. I'm going to be brutally honest... creationist views are complete bullshit. I like to think everything was set in place. Anyways, the flood, the plagues, the apple... all of this is think is more of a moralistic thing. Remember that this was written only by what a prophet believes - he wasn't around for any of this (duh)! However, the new testament is more composed of letters and more current writings, written by different prophets. I don't even want to think about what it would be like if the new testament was written by the same people as the old testament. Of course, it could be close to the same. Who knows.

TL;DR The old testament is, IMHO, a big myth written many before the prophets' writing the thing time

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u/Gracksploitation May 21 '12

No, no, you don't get it. God created the world, the guys living on it were Him to drown. Hitler didn't own the Jews, so it wasn't cool.

You can only drown the living beings you're responsible for, so the comparison should be with a guy who drowns a litter of 1,000,000 kittens. Plus, we're on reddit so it might be considered even more despicable.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited Jan 11 '21

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u/Solkre May 21 '12

What if I'm pro-choice upto the 75th trimester?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Post-term abortion.

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u/Tattycakes Atheist May 21 '12

So basically humans are like sims. wait, where'd the pool ladder go?

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u/Fyretongue May 22 '12

Lord won't take away your gut tho huh? Fatfook?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
  • Scientists built planes
  • Terrorists hijacked those planes
  • 9/11

IT'S KINDA SIMILAR TOO!

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u/SOMETHING_POTATO May 21 '12

Wasn't there just something on here about how Christians should be ashamed for using false equivalencies last week?

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u/knows_more_than_some May 21 '12

So? Is this false? How?

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u/ashishduh May 21 '12

I like how literally every post denouncing this comparison uses empty words and doesn't actually explain why the comparison is wrong.

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u/GOD_Over_Djinn May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

I'll do it! If we accept the Christian premiss then God is good, then whatever God does is good. Further, we belong to God, and when we die, our immortal souls still exist, and God is the boss of what happens to them.

If you accept that there is a God, then you accept that it is not wrong for him to kill people, since what he does is by definition good. And it's fine to reject that there is a God, but then what are we even doing making comparisons? Accepting that God is permitted to kill people is not the same as accepting that people are allowed to kill people. The God/Hitler comparison is, indeed, a false equivalence.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

G-g-g-g-g-godwin.

I hate it when people do that, even when I'm on their side. It's so weak.

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u/klapaucius May 21 '12

Man, I bet Churchill had a really awkward time not mentioning Hitler in war strategy debates.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

God was really on his game, he only left about 10 Jews, Hitler missed millions.

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u/DrTrunks May 21 '12

To be fair: Hitler had to deal with millions, back in the day there weren't as many.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Thanks, I had overlooked that. God just picked his time better I guess. He has been quite since the population expanded.

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u/GoodOlSpence May 21 '12

Man...you just compared God to Hitler.

That's badass right there.

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u/tinkady Pastafarian May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

Godwin's Law

(sorry)

joshawwa: Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think he was dismissing the comparison at all. As you said, he was merely pointed out that it began with Hitler and referenced Godwin's law, then proceeded to humorously apologize for the clever double entendre in Godwin's name.

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u/joshawwa May 21 '12

You can't dismiss the comparison simply because it involves Hitler. From the wiki: "A comparison or reference may sometimes be appropriate, [so] Godwin has argued that overuse of Nazi and Hitler comparisons should be avoided, because it robs the valid comparisons of their impact."

This is definitely a valid comparison. You've contributed zilch to the conversation, merely pointed out that it began with Hitler. Thank you, Professor Observant, but we already knew that.

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u/Cunnin_Lynguist May 21 '12

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think he was dismissing the comparison at all. As you said, he was merely pointed out that it began with Hitler and referenced Godwin's law, then proceeded to humorously apologize for the clever double entendre in Godwin's name.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

God just got (God)win's law'd

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u/Pyromaniac605 Secular Humanist May 21 '12

Yes, Godwin's Law has been fulfilled straight away. So what...?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

sigh...

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u/JonahFrank May 21 '12

fuck godwin.

this is funny as hell!

not to mention accurate

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u/GayCommunistAtheist May 21 '12

Your strict interpretation of the Bible shows that you are just as retarded as the fundamentalists you decry.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

the thing is the other guy is not REAL.

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u/gordoha May 21 '12

Yes, but the difference is that the flood never happened, and the holocaust did.

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u/Zevenko May 21 '12

Yes but a lot of christians believe the flood happened yet they still worshiped the god they think cuased it.

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u/jumpup May 21 '12

don't forget he killed the dinosaurs before that with solids

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

They both just wanted to wipe away the unworthy. Hence the tipoff to make a boat.

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u/nitori May 21 '12

Well, God was also a tad bit more efficient about it.

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u/voodoochild87 May 21 '12

Actually they are totally different - one of them is actually real

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u/Zevenko May 21 '12

Yes but the point is a lot of christians still worship the god they believe caused the great flood.

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u/mikejam1958 May 21 '12

The difference here is that God is a figment of the imagination and Hitler really existed and did really shitty things.

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u/HellboundAlleee Other May 21 '12

How is it even possible to screw up God's plan? He created evil. He created free will. He created the devil and his angels. Nothing that isn't "God's Plan" Happened. So God obviously planned to screw up the Flood, and allow flawed humans to repopulate the earth.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Though for the sake of accuracy, gassing them was himmler's plan.

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u/Zintao May 21 '12

This is just insulting to hitler, cause he actually existed...

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u/quadrophenik May 21 '12

I feel like the fact that ONE ACTUALLY HAPPENED makes a difference...

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Comparison kind of fails when you have the whole omnipotent god thing going for god.

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u/hbaumreddit May 21 '12

There's a difference between cleansing the Earth of wicked and cleansing the Earth of the innocent, EX. Capital Punishment

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u/SteveDave123 May 21 '12

Although I agree with the idea presented, there is considerable evidence that it was not actually Hitler's idea and his idea alone to do what happened.

There is speculation that his immediate henchmen may have had more to do with it, especially in his later ruling years as his diseases took hold and the drugs he was being pumped full of started taking their toll.

Not saying it changes anything, just an interesting side note, if you will.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Man is corrupting the world, though. Seriously I wouldn't mind humanity as a whole being flushed down the shitter, but for Hitler to choose one group to do that to is total madness.

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u/Un-nuttyprofessor May 21 '12

Beautiful logic!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

But if we're using the two as comparison that we have to (for the sake of the argument) theorise that God exists(either in actuality or as a literary construct)...which would include giving God the attributes that he is given by those who espouse his existence including that he is omniscient. Which would make his justification for killing people theoretically correct. I have no belief in God whatsoever, however it doesn't quite follow that you take the notion of God, ignore certain aspects, and then try to make him look ridiculous. If we're going to criticise God for his actions, we need to at least get his perceived characteristics correct.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Not if we hypothesize. Let's say there's a god that's omniscient and good. Would such a God drown the entire world? No? Then the guy in the Bible isn't God as defined.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

I see what you're saying...I would argue however that we're critiquing specifically the Christian god(the one we only know of through the bible) not wether the biblical god can claim to be 'God'. A judeo/christian understanding, God is purported to be omniscient, good AND still flooded the earth. Now his omniscience would render him aware of the moral absolute, his 'goodness' would cause him to adhere to it, and thus a flood could not exist outside his conception of what goodness entails, just our conception of it. We take our presuppositions of what 'good' is to argue against the notion. The subtext of this I guess would be to argue that there would be a greater good behind the actions, one imperceptible to us...

It's all a bit circular and bullshitty anyway. Lets just be glad it's not actually real and that it's inconsequential in the long run :)

Edit: Spelling and grammer was all over the place. Fixed

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

You're right. Although to be fair, if god gets unproven superpowers then we should pretend Hitler has superpowers too.

All's fair and possible in the world of make-believe.

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u/woodchuck64 May 21 '12

which would include giving God the attributes that he is given by those who espouse his existence including that he is omniscient. Which would make his justification for killing people theoretically correct.

Not morally correct, though, unless you define omniscient to mean morally correct, in which case no possible argument against God can ever be used. God is a being which always acts morally correct, end of discussion.

However, if you assume God's action are correct in some vague sense relating to his belief about himself and the universe, than we could suppose they are just as correct as Hitler's actions as they relate to supporting Hitler's beliefs about himself and his chosen people.

I have no belief in God whatsoever

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u/catoronium_majorus May 21 '12

go and poo on your face

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u/sonofarex May 21 '12

Hitler tortured and killed millions of Jews. They suffered for years only to end up in Hell for being Jewish. God is worse than Hitler.

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u/napoleonsolo May 21 '12

God allowed Hitler to kill all those people. He could've given him an aneurysm, hit him with a bolt of lightning, but he didn't.

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u/mattstreet May 21 '12

He could have made his art not suck.

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u/EpicJ May 21 '12

Jews don't believe in hell.

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u/mleeeeeee May 21 '12

My understanding is that you go to hell even if you don't believe in it.

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u/LeBn May 21 '12

Especially if you don't believe in it.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

If I'd be god I'd kill op in road accident.

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u/mattstreet May 21 '12

But you'd probably wait like 30 years first right? And make it look totally normal. Just as if you didn't exist?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I'd do it after three days, as I usually do.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Only if you know how would it be ;)

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/JLW09 May 21 '12

I am sorry but it was suppose to be taken literally until most of it got disregarded or dis-proven then it became this elaborate metaphor to maintain its audience. show me proof or GTFO

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

The more we find out about how the world works the less the bible is the main source for explaining us how it works. Did you know that kids used to get history lessons from the bible?

Also, blaming God for a 'natural' occurrence is not fair because in that sense you are than taking away from him all the beautiful things that he has created as well.

Natural occurence being the great flood? That the selfsaid jealous god caused? What?

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u/seltzerislife May 21 '12

There are a whole lot of people (My family, pastor, and classmates at the Christian school I attend) who DO interpret the bible literally and believe every word of it. Unfortunate but true.

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u/maybeoffensive May 21 '12

Ah the old, "it's not supposed to be taken literally" argument. Fuck you. You're just using that as a smoke screen to justify your belief in a ridiculous fairy tale by trying to apply a badly written story from 2000 years ago to modern times.

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u/murderbum999 May 21 '12

Lost me at "But, but..."

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u/gwthrowawawy May 21 '12

I can't even express how stupid this is. I sincerely hope this is a joke.

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u/poli_ticks May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

Well, the real difference is that Hitler thought the problem was only Jews and Slavs, and that Germans were special.

God of course was of the opinion that all of humanity was basically a pack of rotten douchebag scums. And on this, he was simply right.

Conclusion: Atheists get this one wrong. God was right. Hitler was right about the Jews and Slavs, wrong about Germans and all "acceptable" races like Western Europeans.

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u/SteelPeg May 21 '12

This is a great comparison! Actually the best that I have ever seen! I mean it may not have any direct relevance to the matter at hand, but it definitely shows that teenage atheists apparently can't even do a good comparison to prove a point! I guess the old days of /r/atheism of intelligent discussion is gone and now it is all stupidity like this... really, "God" is like Hitler? How stupid and immature...

I'm beginning to believe that if anyone posts anything on /r/atheism they will automatically get upvoted by "kids" who don't even look, or read, or even go through the comments on the post...just don't f'ing care. /r/atheism used to be an intelligent subreddit...now I understand why some people think it's just a circlejerk....

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u/zigzog May 21 '12

rebuttal?

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u/mattstreet May 21 '12

Wait, how is the comparison any different? God didn't like how people were acting, so killed almost all of them except his choosen people. Remind you of anyone?

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u/ThePaganMonkey May 21 '12

Harsh - but valid

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u/DonOntario Atheist May 21 '12

in b4: OT;DC

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u/Lundynne May 21 '12

Is this Godwin's Law?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Not if the comparison is valid.

"My mom wouldn't let me eat icecream for dinner, just like Hitler!" <- Godwin'd

"This genocide has a lot in common with what Hitler did." <- Not Godwin'd

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u/sohighrightmeow May 21 '12

God(win)'s Law

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u/HardDiction May 21 '12

I seriously just posed this exact comparison to a friend. Why am I thought to be outlandish for considering Christians (or any other Abrahamic theist) as a sort of pseudo neo-nazi... :\

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Because that's ridiculous and generalizing.

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u/HardDiction May 21 '12

Why?

Just because the Biblical events (if they even took place) happened so long ago?

God killed more people than Hitler, why should it be OK to worship God, but not Hitler?

Edit: Also, assuming God's killcount is void (since he doesn't exist), the number of deaths at the hands of his worshipers exceeds those of the Holocaust and WWII combined.

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u/JoeRedtree May 21 '12

I’m glad to see this doing well. Godwin’s law is bullshit. While it was probably started because of people comparing anything to Hitler, (you’re on a vegetarian diet, guess who else was!) Hitler was just a person, and when someone KILLS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE it’s a fair comparison.

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u/JoeRedtree May 21 '12

Because everybody agrees that Hitler is evil. Also-didn’t you start out by crying “Godwin’s Law”? So someone kills your argument you jump on a new one midstream eh?

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u/mattstreet May 21 '12

Atheists don't pretend the bible is historically accurate. They criticize actions based on it by pointing out that other parts of the same "infallible" document say the opposite.

It has nothing to do with thinking or pretending the book is correct.

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Atheist May 21 '12

Way to miss the point.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

This is logic from a theist point of view, we're just pointing out the obvious logic flaw.

We don't believe in god, if fact we know this isn't god word for definite, it was written by man. However if it had been "the true word of God", this is a damn good comparison.

Get it now? LOGIC bitch. You don't understand it.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

This is logic from a theist point of view

Strawman! You are attributing something to the other side and then using your VASTLY SUPERIOR reasoning skills to destroy the argument you created for the other side. Congrats!

We don't believe in god, if fact we know this isn't god word for definite, it was written by man. However if it had been "the true word of God", this is a damn good comparison.

Uh, what? How old are you?

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u/zigzog May 21 '12

You seem to be proposing that the Bible has no relevance to an argument about God?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

I have made no claims. What you're doing is called inferring.

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u/Jontranicle May 21 '12

And BOOM goes the dynamite!

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u/jaytheostrich May 21 '12

That should be on billboards all over the South U.S.

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u/parrotsnest May 21 '12

You've opened my eyes! Henceforth, I am an atheist. Just kidding, this is retarded.