On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 4:44:43 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
> 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> > Where t'Rump is most dangerous is not with any comparison with Hitler, or similarities between the two men. Adolf Hitler was not the brightest man in history by a long stretch, but he was smarter than t'Rump. Hitler had a more sophisticated ideological construction, though still full of contradictions and nonsense, than t'Rump. Don-the-Con t'Rump is more of the "common man" sort, and is in many ways utterly stupid. Think of his statements about mainlining bleach, which is about the time he began to founder. Where the two are similar is the social gregarious process that surrounded them. They both were masters at rhetorical power, and they both had a cult following. Don-the-Con t'Rump still has that following and that is still a problem. Both men rode a wave of a mass social-manic psychosis and were good at fueling it to every higher flame heights. LC > > 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/8db0786b-9ed2-451f-a9ce-03134418c4a5n%40googlegroups.com.
