On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 6:37 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*> Oh, Adolf was trying a sales pitch!* > Exactly. Look just under the skin of any successful preacher or dictator and you will find a used car salesman, or a "My Pillow" pitchman. *> What he was trying to do is recruit the Jew-haters of the Church which > had always worked. * > And you can thank religion for the fact that hate mongering of that sort has always worked. *> The trick of both Christianity and Islam is the other side. To survive > one's death and especially, the death of one's loved one's, you have to > follow the rules.* > And the most important rule of all these preachers and dictators insist is to have faith, because God thinks the greatest virtue of all is stupidity, believing that something is true when there is not the slightest reason for doing so. Thus the more ridiculous an idea is that you nevertheless believe the more virtuous you are, and so the better your chances are of living in Santa Claus's workshop after you die. But if you give even the slightest hint that the idea is dumb, well, I quote George Carlin: *“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!* *But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”* > *Dolf secretly hated Christianity, for being tainted with what he termed, > "The Jewish pity ethic." * > It doesn't matter if Hitler believed in Christianity or not, what's important is that Hitler knew that tens of millions of Germans DID believe in Christianity and he could use that mind virus to get them to dance to his tune. > *> The comparison to Trump show's me that you are trying for a "rise," out > of me* > Both Hitler and Trump were evil but I think Trump is more like Mussolini than Hitler as both have an air of intense incompetence and almost humorous ridiculousness hanging around them that Hitler didn't have, at least not at that high an intensity level. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> ygn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3kKyaZDWZyj5t8e-cXi3Eo8oHTUmtuxxOTHxgoQ4%2BLrg%40mail.gmail.com.
