I'm an atheist. The problem is that "New Atheist" type atheists are so badly out of step with historical scholarship and so thoroughly enmeshed in their own circle-jerk groupthink that they believe anyone who doesn't reflexively blame every historical evil on religion like they do must be an agenda driven fundie.
The problem is that you jumped to a very wrong conclusion and have thus been barking up the wrong tree for the whole post. It also seems to be interfering with your reading ability and critical thinking faculties.
As such you whine about me not linking to a
book, me not giving references for songs that I gave 2 references for in the post you replied to, etc. then you commit fallacy after fallacy all while completely failing to provide any evidence in support of your claims, or any arguments against the substance of the posts.
Ask politely?
If you think about this for a few minutes, you might realise
quite how vacuous a comment it is.
Jesus wept
Playing the "OMG you're, like, really dumb" card while repeatedly failing to read basic English
Me:
Luther: Hated Jews, wanted them to become Christians. Being Jewish was due to what you believed, and thus you could stop being a Jew and become a good member of society.
Nazis: Hated Jews, Jew was a 'scientific' racial designation and thus immutable. A Christian 'Jew' was still a Jew.
Thus, while anti-semitism in Nazi Germany drew significantly on a Christian legacy, as well as factors deriving from WW1 and Communism, it also drew heavily on scientific racialist theories.
Ecco: Then please explain why Martin Luther believed he could eliminate this immutable characteristic by converting people from the Jewish religion to the Christian religion.
Me: Because ML saw Jewishness as religious, not a racial, which is unsurprising as he lived nearly 400 years before scientific racialism was invented. That's kind of the point
Ecco (
still failing to grasp the point)
:
Please tell me that you don't need a 4th bite at the cherry...