[MD] a-theism and atheism

[Platt Holden]

"Confused?" "Pathetic?" Name callers automatically lose a debate.

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:16 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [Platt]
> Nice try to avoid the issue. Compare the human misery resulting from the
> actions of big business and big government from the 1890's to the present,
> including workplace conditions in factories and concentration camps.
>
> [Arlo]
> Avoid the issue? You'd be funny were such distortions not so obvious. My
> original point, which you as usual have twisted into something about the
> Nazis,
> was that the conditions by which the majority of people live are far better
> today than they were during the 1890s. And a large part of that improvement
> are
> the controls placed upon by the social level by intellect, from workplace
> safety laws to literacy programs and public education. And last I checked,
> it
> has been a long time since an American river caught on fire.
>
> The Nazi's were, of course, anti-intellectual, and they rose a wave to
> power
> manipulating xenophobia, anti-media fear and anti-academy rhetoric. To even
> TRY
> to equate workplace safety laws with the holocaust shows only how pathetic
> you
> are, and how confused, but I'm sure such nonsense gets applause on
> talk-radio.
>
> "Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society,
> were
> confronted by the reactionary forces of fascism, a program for the social
> control of intellect." (LILA)
>
> "This conflict explains the driving force behind Hitler not as an insane
> search
> for power but as an all-consuming glorification of social authority and
> hatred
> of intellectualism. His anti-Semitism was fueled by anti-intellectualism.
> His
> hatred of communists was fueled by anti-intellectualism. His exaltation of
> the
> German volk was fueled by it. His fanatic persecution of any kind of
> intellectual freedom was driven by it." (LILA)
>
>
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