[Bring_Back_Shantz]

That's interesting Cheese. Does this pastor fried of yours teach hate as you have claimed the church does? Or is he like 99% of clergy who are good people and into the clergy to do good? Could it be that you invite into your own home a shining example of how wrong your "Religion reaches hate" position is? Do you tell this preacher friend of yours that you think he teaches hate?

As far as you shutting up and going away, I really could care less. You're entitled to your own beliefs and I'm cool with that. But I'll ask again what is so different about you going around telling grown adults with the capacity to reason and make their own decions about what the choose be believe and the bible thumping JW that you have such a problem with. Why can't you accept that people can make their own judgements, and if for their own reasons they choose to beleive something that can't be proven and is a matter of faith?

As to you'r Hitler was a catholic bit. Yeah I know, I also know how to read dates. My quote was from 41, yours was from 1933. People change Cheese and they are capable of using religon when it suits them and then ditching it when they decide that it no longer suits their purpose.

You yourself were raised christian or something of that nature were you not? You managed to change and stop believing but Hitler is incapable of this? Or is that another example of a humanist having abilities that theists don't?

Regardless of whether or not Hitler was Catholic or not, my point stands that it is clear that he was able to (at least to some extent) use atheism as a means to persecute the theists that he hated for one reason or another.