Reply #90: You can't have it both ways...

[PurpleChez]

You can't state unequivocally "Nazis were absolutely Christian," and then when you unearth information to the contrary, offer up the revision, "I don't care if the Nazi leadership used Christianity to manipulate the population (but were not themselves believers)." Well...I guess you can...but it's shady. Instead of acknowleging a error, you said that it didn't matter. I mean, if a Freeper did that we'd flip out. If Rumsfeld did that we'd all have aneurisms. Your may be correct that "there are Christians who kill for Christianity. There are no atheists who kill for atheism," but my point (sorry if I didn't make it clearer) was that, even though I am not a traditionally religious person myself, I have little patience with the freshman-philosophy-major view that religion is the great source of evil in the world. My point is that people, like Stalin and Mao and too many others, have managed to bring about untold suffering without invoking God, and that we need to be very mindful of the distinction that you so easily dismissed above -- is religion itself the great evil, or is it "just" one of many tools abused by evil men in search of power?