alt.education

atheist@home.com wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:40:13 -0700 (PDT), dford3@gl.umbc.edu wrote:
>
> >On Mar 26, 12:38 am, athe...@home.com wrote:
> >> I mean christian activists wouldn't be deliberately deceptive would
> >> they?
> >> Well maybe other than Jim and Tammy Bakker...and Oral Roberts...and
> >> Benny Hinn...and Jimmy Swaggert...and Peter Popoff..and Robert
> >> Tilton...and...
> >> and...
> >> Never mind.
> >>
> >> atheist@home#1554
> >
> >October 1941 Hitler: "Science cannot lie.... It's Christianity that's
> >the liar."
> >http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1136858756.936587.76390%40g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
> >
>
>
> Lies are lies no matter who tells them.
> Sort of discouraging isn't it?
> To know that lying believers are just like lying atheists when it
> comes to propaganda and falshoods.
> And religious belief, like Lenin and Stalin's communism, or Hitler's
> nationalism is in many cases one of the most evil and deceptive lies
> ever conceived by cruel, diseased and backward minds.
> Lenin, Stalin and Hitler may not have been religionists but they
> certainly had a lot in common with many believers.

Right, here's just a few

Power over the masses
Rampant use of propaganda [Goebells "Tell the masses a lie often enough given time they will
all believe it]
Incite fear and then claim to be able to ameliorate it

>
> But thankfully, in most cases, religionists don't have the power those
> particular tyrants had, or the power they themselves once had to
> commit the atrocities so common in the history of the church.
>
> atheist@home#1554