Quote from stu:
I don't know why you want to make assumptions about what you think I believe, and I certainly don't think it sensible for you to suggest that religion as it is instilled into the mind of nations and one madman called Hitler, can only be really thought of existentially!!
This thread is littered with the usual religious attempts trying to exonerate religion of all blame, cause, or influence when history and the facts show quite the opposite. Is that your attempt to do the same?
And here you are apparently hand waving away religion's dramatic impression on everything it touches; only able to be considered from an existential viewpoint, because all human systems are "religious". What!?
Itâs nonsense to turn away from the reality of pernicious ideology embedded by religion in general and Christianity in this case particularly, by turning it into a philosophical exercise.
Just what do you mean by putting "religious" into inverted commas for goodness sake!
Of course there were other factors. So were they all existential ones too?.
Less or equally to blame along with the teachings of the Christian religious message as it penetrated the consciousness of every German who followed it including Hitler, to at least assuage any awareness of atrocity in glory of its own divine and heavenly dictator who, can judge them as they judge themselves through His holy word, to be righteous by their actions?
That is the banefully glorious measure and justification religion makes available to the theist.