Why do atheists say such silly things?

Question

like arguing that Hitler was a real Christian even when he and his fellow Nazis were slaughtering millions of people (and you "conveniently" ignore the very obvious distinction between someone claiming to be a Christian and someone actually living as a Chrsitian, and the fact that the Nuremberg prosecutors denounced Nazism as fanatically ANTI-Christian!), but you deny that the scientists who rejected Galileo's work were real scientists. So what's up with that?

Answer 1

so you think that non believers say silly things and believers do not????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

And yes, Hitler was a Christian. Remember, the ONLY requirement for being a Christian is accepting Jesus as your savior, something that Hitler DID do!
-The organizations that rejected Galileo's work were mostly churches

Answer 2

Perhaps it's just that the truth sounds silly to people who are deluded.

If a person's acts define him/her as a christian, then there are not many christians around. How many have given everything they own to the poor?

You are probably right though, that some scientists rejected Galileo's work... just as some scientists reject global warming today. This does not take away from the fact that the church silenced Galileo, not the opposition of other scientists.

Answer 3

Hitler was a Christian, i.e. he believed Jesus to be the messiah. If one were to argue that Hitler wasn't Christian because Christians are peaceful then atheists could claim the Stalin wasn't an atheist because atheists are peaceful. To be Christian implies nothing more than a belief in the words of the bible, it does not imply any sort of morality. The "scientists" of Galileo's days didn't follow the scientific method and thus weren't truely scientists. The two things aren't really comparable.

Answer 4

Nazi-ism is certainly against many of the teachings of Christianity (though not as many as you may wish to think). But to be a Christian requires nothing more than accepting Jesus as savior. I personally do not know whether Hitler accepted that. He did claim to hold such a belief, much like Newton, Descartes and others whom Christians seem eager to embrace, but who we can be no more sure about than Hitler.

To be a scientist, however, requires that one dispassionately accept ideas supported by evidence, which Galileo had. Ergo...

Answer 5

Why should Hitler alone be exempt from the "faith not actions" definition that Christians use fo themselves? He believed that Christ was the messiah--according to most Christians, that's enough to make him a Christian, no matter what his actions.

As for Galileo, whether his detractors were scientists or not is a moot point. Their rejection was on cosmological grounds, not scientific, so in that instance they were not acting as "real" scientists.

Answer 6

I thought that the only requirement was to accept Jesus in their hearts and ask for forgiveness, Hitler could have made his peace with Jesus before his death. Christianity has a long bloody history and that is not easily forgotten. Galileo was ostracized from his community and excommunicated from the church. These "real scientists" couldn't have done that, all they could have done is say. "We think that his theory is bunk." Only the Church could have done that to him. Of course other Christians claim Hitler and Nazism was Anti-Christian, no one wants to claim that psychopath. But the Church has never been known for its love of truth, has it?

Answer 7

You're conveniently ignoring the fact that if a person says a silly thing, that person is not actually living as an atheist. Real atheists don't say silly things, because atheism is all about not saying silly things.

Hmm. I really can't bring myself to say that kind of thing with a straight face. How do you manage it?

Answer 8

Firstly, there is ample evidence in support of the notion that Hitler was indeed a christian. He said so himself on more than one occasion. And for the record, all that is required for one to be a christian is for them to proclaim their belief in Christ as the son of god. Being christian has nothing to do with how you live your life and everything to do with your superstitious beliefs.

Secondly, the 'scientists' who rejected Galileo's work were Copernican dogmatists, not scientists. They were scientists for the church and devoted to the Vatican, not the scientific method.

Answer 9

i've never said that hitler was a real Christian, and i don't know what atheist would
however, the scientists that rejected Galileo's work weren't real scientists...do you own a cell phone? if so, then whoever told Galileo (a giant that Einstein stood on to get to his nobel prize winning theories) was obviously wrong

Answer 10

Sorry pal.
Washing your hands is not going to change the fact that Adolph Hitler was a christian. And that the Nazi party was founded on christian beliefs.
Here read and learn;
http://nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm
Oh and the fact that you're actually stupid enough to compare Hitlers beliefs and what they led him to do with scientists arguing with Gallileo, is not only pathetic, it's sad beyond belief.
You have my pity, you really do.

Answer 11

Probably because he claims to be a Christian himself.
We meet people spewing hate, intolerance, and the like daily claiming to be Christians. This is the only giude we have to go by... and Hitler fits it, if only as an extreme.

heck, look at the Christian group from Westoboro baptist Church in Kansas protesting soldier's funerals all the time. All because the government wont declare being gay a capitol offence. How are they, or you, so different from hitler? All you lack is the power to enforce your hate.