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Godspeak
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.
Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter 8
Spread the Gospel
Spake the people
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NO! So good for Japan; let's hope the US follows.
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Maybe it's only because I've been away from the sect for so long, but I hadn't considered the...
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Thanks for posting and creating an awareness of the Jehovah's Witnesses *blood...
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Jehovah's Witnesses are unpopular for many reasons, none of which matched the early church...
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Good points.
Naturally, theists may try to respond to those points. But if I may...
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If I may toot my own shofar, a few of the posts I like best:
Hello! I wasn't aware of Stalin's alleged religious leanings, but it wouldn't come as any surprise; like most people, he was raised in a society with religion. Nor would his ousting of religion, even if he maintained some inner personal leanings toward "faith", be a surprise; he wanted complete power, and religion was a rival for power.
Of course, we all know that his atrocious failure as a human doesn't reflect badly on either his atheism or his Christianity (whichever may have formed his personal beliefs); his motivation was megalomaniacal lust for power, and not religion or non-religion. I wish more "atheism creates Stalin!" wackos would get that (especially the ones who also want to toss the religious nutcase Hitler into the atheist camp as well...)