What made Hitler massacre millions of innocent jews - his good nature?
2007-03-25 01:50:26 · 13 answers · asked by Dirk Johnson 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How stupid of me. I meant why do they NOT believe in evli?
2007-03-25 01:53:45 · update #1
I dont know..well. I believe in both Good and Evil as without good, there is no meaning of Evil, and without Evil, there is no meaning of Good...Just as without light, there is no meaning of dark and without dark, there is no meaning of light..=]
2007-03-25 01:54:55 · answer #1 · answered by Pauli :) 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where do people get these ideas? Atheists believe that evil exists. They just don't see it as a mythical battle that goes on between supernatural beings.
It is undeniable that human beings are capable of the most vile and vicious behavior. Witness such things as the persecution of the Cathars, for example, or the Inquisition, or the Salem Witch Trials. There you have inescapable proof of evil.
People who have been corrupted by power persuade people who are passive to go along with them on such predations as those listed above and such hideous behavior as engaged in by the Nazis.
Humans do this. We do this. We are all and each capable of this and it does no good at all to excuse ourselves by blaming devils and demons. We are each responsible for our own actions. "The Devil made me do it" is not acceptable.
2007-03-25 09:00:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends what you mean by evil (and I assume you missed a not in there). EVIL as a presence over and above bad deeds, no, if you just mean bad deeds then yes evil exists.
By the way many people agreed with Hitler at the time, were they evil? How do you define what evil actual is?
2007-03-25 08:54:05 · answer #3 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that people do things and we percieve them to be good or bad due to our social conditioning. Was what Hitler did bad? Undoubtedly, yes. Keep in mind that an entire continent, and indeed an entire world let it happen and did nothing to interfere. Was the rest of the world "good?"
Do I want to perscribes some supernatural explanation to Hitler's bad acts? No, and quite frankly, I believe that by doing so, it kind of minimalizes the responsibility he should bear for his actions.
2007-03-25 09:44:30 · answer #4 · answered by hyperhealer3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't believe anything supernatural causes evil. Hitler had issues with Jews because of his Catholic up bringing. Guess where I think that evil came from.
2007-03-25 09:02:20 · answer #5 · answered by Alex 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe in mental illness, which is the real cause of evil. Paranoia produces people like Hitler. Personality disorders produce the greedy CEOs and politicians who are going to be our ruination. Anxiety disorders keep religion in business. It can all be explained through science.
2007-03-25 08:55:43 · answer #6 · answered by link955 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, he was a sociopath.
Mental illness does exist.
It's just that atheists don't try to blame behavior on some mythical cause from a fictional story.
2007-03-25 08:57:05 · answer #7 · answered by Skyhawk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in evil. There can be evil without there being god, because there is also good in the world. I'm good, but that doesn't mean I belive in god.
2007-03-25 08:53:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You need to buy a brain.
How can you judge me by what Hitler did?
That's like saying you're an idiot because people who make generalisations are.
2007-03-25 08:54:02 · answer #9 · answered by Travellin' Soldier 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm not an Atheist but I would say it was the syphilis eating away at his brain.
2007-03-25 08:54:16 · answer #10 · answered by Praetorian 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋