Can Agnostics, Atheists and Humanitarians be accused of being white supremecists as Christians are now being accused?
Racial tension is being stirred up with call by American Shaun King to destroy Christian statues & stained glass windows.
Statue Wars come for JESUS as activist claims Christ and Virgin Mary are ‘white supremacy’ [rt.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Can a humanitarian be a racist? I suppose they are selective humanitarians.
Certainly agnostics and atheists can be. I hope they leave the beautiful stained glass windows. Actually I love beautiful old cathedrals even though religion is about oppression of the people.....all people.
MsDemeanour
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June 23, 2020
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Germany's Nazis of the 1930s considered themselves to be atheist, or agnostic. So I don't see why not. Ones belief/lack of belief in the supernatural does not necessarily equate with one's place on the political spectrum.
Although most atheists and agnostics tend to be progressive-minded, there are some who can be quite reactionary. Witness the right-wingers who have infiltrated this site!
davknight
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June 23, 2020
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"Germany's Nazis of the 1930s considered themselves to be atheist, or agnostic." Who the fuck told you that fairy tale?
Hitler was a practicing Roman catholic, Nazi germany had a concordant pact with the Vatican and churches thrived under the Nazi regime with many Bishops and arch bishops being party members who refused to speak out against the holocaust.
No doubt some SOME atheist, or agnostic were also Nazis, why not even some Jews joined the party they even had their own special regiment (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-24-mn-12209-story.html) so there is no end to human stupidity.
But a political force that were obliged to wear belt buckles reading "Gott mit uns" surrounding a swastika were not an atheist organisation.
@LenHazell53 Hitler was born to Roman Catholic parents, but ceased attending services after he turned eighteen yrs old. Hitler and most high-ranking Nazis considered themselves atheists or agnostics, but showed toleration for Catholicism, if simply because a large number of Germans were Catholic. The Nazis courted the Church the way Trump courts the evangelicals. All tyrants like to tell people that "God" is on their side.
@davknight True after a fashion, but Hitler was still no atheist or agnostic, he was a member of the Thule society and in later years a Rosicrucian, while never giving up his catholicism and tellingly never being excommunicated, Pope Pius XII in fact proclaimed Adolf as a hero of the church and made Hitler's Birthday a Roman Catholic Holiday.
Himmler was an occultist, Goebbels was a Catholic and wrote voluminously on religious philosophy, Hermann Göring was a convert to Protestantism from the RC, Adolf Eichmann was a Calvinist, I could go on but I stand by my contention National Socialism in German in the early twentieth (unlike communism) was not and did not require its membership to embrace or profess Atheism and was pretty much open to all, bigots and bastards.
re: witness the right wingers that have infiltrated this sight.
There are very few and perhaps fewer wishing to make a right-wing post for fear of being shot down and that is disappointing. I need to have my views and biases challenged to force me to reflect on different perspectives. I'm not good at it but believe it is healthy to be open to discourse and perhaps changing minds over different issues.
Absolutely. An atheist can be a bigot and a racist no doubt. This site has quite a few of them. Religious people can be totally decent human beings. I don't judge believers, I.just know their wrong about "God". MLK, Ghandi, Mother Teresa***(apparently she's a POS) all people of faith. Check out Mankind Quarterly, it's Scientific Genetics. Atheistic racism.
barjoe
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June 22, 2020
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Do not disagree but as we don't have stained glass windows or statues it won't be inaminates being destroyed!
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu AKA Mother Teresa was an utter monster of arrogance and cruelty, I would not mention her on the same page as Mohandas K Gandhi and not in the same library as Martin Luther King. She was the very epitome of Roman Catholic evil and is one of the very few people I rejoice at being dead and returned to the filth where she belonged.
@LenHazell53 I didn't know anything about her. History has been too good to her. I researched what you said and found article in Vice discussing a Canadian researcher who described her "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, also known as Mother Teresa, was a colossal fucking piece of shit" I was using her as an example, I stand corrected. Sorry
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