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Old 08-23-2009, 02:18 AM
 
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that's right Dusty! being a christian is a requirement in order to belong to the KKK and nazi party...go figure!! It doesn't get much nuttier than that!!!
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Old 08-23-2009, 07:06 AM
 
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that's right Dusty! being a christian is a requirement in order to belong to the KKK and nazi party...go figure!! It doesn't get much nuttier than that!!!
Maybe in some alternate history, but in our history many Nazis weren't Christian. Heinrich Himmler was into a mix of Hinduism and the occult. Rudolf Hess tended toward occultism and was in the Thule society. The majority of Nazis were at least nominal Christians, but Christianity was never a requirement.

Among prominent Neo-Nazis Savitri Devi was an eccentric kind of Hindu and Matthew Hale was a member of some nontheistic religion.
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Old 08-23-2009, 08:32 AM
 
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Maybe in some alternate history, but in our history many Nazis weren't Christian. Heinrich Himmler was into a mix of Hinduism and the occult. Rudolf Hess tended toward occultism and was in the Thule society. The majority of Nazis were at least nominal Christians, but Christianity was never a requirement.

Among prominent Neo-Nazis Savitri Devi was an eccentric kind of Hindu and Matthew Hale was a member of some nontheistic religion.
it does make me wonder how well you can read, I specifically said the ku klux klan and the american nazi party. When in a crowd (these two groups are not mutually exclusive) they will introduce one to another (so they don't say aloud that they are klan or nazi) with this phrase "let me introduce you to a good christian man!"

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Old 08-23-2009, 08:39 AM
 
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that's right Dusty! being a christian is a requirement in order to belong to the KKK and nazi party...go figure!! It doesn't get much nuttier than that!!!
Had I stayed more than a few days in Belgium, I would have gained a lot of weight, excellent chocolate!!!!! Nice people too, or, at least the ones I met.
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Old 08-23-2009, 09:18 AM
 
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On what basis do you think the American Nazi Party requires its members be Christian? George Lincoln Rockwell was an agnostic according to Wikipedia. William Luther Pierce, of the Turner Diaries infamy, was a "cosmotheist." Granted the Aryan Nations are from "Christian Identity", which is a highly Anti-Semitic/Nazi form of Christianity.
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Old 08-24-2009, 12:38 AM
 
Location: Ostend,Belgium....
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LOL Dusty! you must have met the few nice people of Belgium!! I think English people are much nicer...I agree about the chocolate though
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Old 08-24-2009, 09:04 AM
 
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it does make me wonder how well you can read, I specifically said the ku klux klan and the american nazi party. When in a crowd (these two groups are not mutually exclusive) they will introduce one to another (so they don't say aloud that they are klan or nazi) with this phrase "let me introduce you to a good christian man!"
yup.
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Old 08-24-2009, 10:36 AM
 
Location: New York City
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Well since the time I started this thread (under an older screen name), I still look around for some here and there. The funny thing is, I have a Facebook account and some of my friends come on their pages preaching, quoting scriptures or giving prayers. They often get a haughty "AMEN," or "that's right!" The few times I have thrown up anything remotely resembling disbelief in the bible's god, you could hear the gasps followed by "what's wrong with you?"
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Old 08-24-2009, 03:13 PM
 
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The Black Panther Party was a Marxist-Leninist/Maoist group, so I would imagine quite of few of them (especially Newton and Seale) were atheists.
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Old 08-24-2009, 03:37 PM
 
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You know it's interesting but just recently on a trip to the Washington, DC area I met a woman who is an African-American and is an Atheist, she said that her father was a Baptist minister and her mother was a Methodist and that while she was in college and started questioning things about religion, that that was the time that she became an Atheist, interesting how those of higher education who's questions about religion cannot be answered to any satisfaction, begin to think for themselves and will walk away from the religion they were brought up with.
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