The Conflation Of Religion And Ethics

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Religion Ethics Comic

A reminder that actually being good and just is significantly different from labeling oneself as good or religious.

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  • http://www.twitter.com/cosmic_bob Cosmic Bob

    I would change the second last line to: “Religion does not correlate with ethics.” Leave out the “always”. Good poster though.

    • Anonymous

      I agree. “Not always” could represent a 99.99% correlation.

    • Anonymous

      Malcom X did agree that Blacks could use militant and violent tactics to protect themselves, as he was a member of a militant group for alot of his life, both he and Bin Laden believed in a “better” race, Take Malcom X out of this analogy

      • diego

        that was before he went to mecca and found his faith. learn something.

        • Troy

          Well I learned something. It seems finding faith and religion can make you a better and less racist person. Tell us diego; is it just Islam and Mecca that increases morality, or can any religion do that.
          To bad Hitler had never been to Mecca. We could have avoided the whole Holocaust/WW2 thing. If there’s one thing we know about the Muslims, its that they love them some Jews.

        • Anonymous

          The basic teaching of Islam is to destroy everyone who believes in somethings different than them. Some are radical about it and some arent but that is still one of the base teachings.

          • Anonymous

            Umm, no it isn’t…

          • Anonymous

            Islam and the basis of all religion is to teach us to do good and prevent evil deed~ your statement is ignorantly untrue. Please stop spreading nonsense fact~

      • Tone

        Malcolm X never believed in supremacy, only separation. You should look up writings, interviews and speeches during the last year of his life. With the veil of racism stripped away, he was able to develop all inclusive revolutionary ideals. Malcolm X did not lose the idea that violence has its place in protecting people and their rights. But, is that really “Bad/Evil?”

        Malcolm X may not be the best example to use in this context because of the general conception of him and the once crippling adherence he had to racist ideology leading up to the last year of his life. Even with that veil, he was still an integral part of the Civil Rights movement and made strides in helping Blacks in America gain pride/power.

        I really do suggest reading his ideas in his last year of life.

        • Anonymous

          The problem with is that Malcolm X still wanted races to be separated which seems still rather racist.

      • Anonymous

        he also said a man with a book is more powerful than a man with a gun.

  • Anonymous

    bill gates made his millions trough theft

    • Anonymous

      i dont know which incident your talking about but even after all the court cases in the beginning the products are still used by too many people to live better lives to ignore it. besides, competition makes better products.

      • wh666

        anon @ 1:08 was referring to MS stealing the UI off mac when bill gates worked for them and screwed them over.

        Bill gates is a common criminal and a scumbag for exploiting his own nation and then giving money away to African countries instead of repairing the damage he caused in his own country.

        I really hope he dies painfully from aids.

        • Jaqar S.

          If I recall correctly, Apple stole their idea and UI off of Xerox first. In fact, I could be mistaken but I believe rather than Bill Gates ripping his idea straight from Apple, they BOTH were “inspired” by Xerox..

          Also, consider this. If Apple had been the “top dog”, would things be any different? Perhaps worse, when you consider that Bill Gates at least has a track record of charitable and humanitarian causes, vs. Apple’s complete lack thereof and apathy toward the conditions at the factories where their products are manufactured.. Just something to think about.

          • Anonymous

            Steve Jobs and his friends were given the operating system from Xerox. Bill Gates stole it through reverse engineering while writing the first programs for Apple Computer.

            • Anonymous

              Stole, blah blah blah whatever!!! welcome to the world! Everybody steals everything! If a good idea comes up, other people will take it and put their tiny little twist to make it different. But just look what comes out at the end. Steve Jobs built a business that has tons of different products and was hurt non the less that Bill Gates may have taken Apple’s UI. BOTH people contributed to society with their technology. Its not like Bill Gates knows nothing about computers and literally stole a desktop and put it on a shelf. He made it his own. And he doesn’t wayyyyyyyy over charge for an Apple brand name, and then gives his profits away. He is the most charitble man in the world. And dumbasses, hes being smart by giving his money to Africa and whereever else instead of the US. He’s spreading the wealth, keeping America from becoming an even stronger monopoly. Its time we learn from our mistakes.

        • Anonymous

          Excuse me but I’m pretty sure Africa needs that money way more then we do, we are all human beings and we should take care of each other.

          The world needs less ignorant selfish douche bags as yourself and do take this sincerely when i say go fuck yourself

          • Anonymous

            America doesn’t need the money! We need money in our economy so we can give everybody free things, blah blah blahhhh. You can eat and are fairly fucking safe. People in other countries, yeah not so much.

            Gives us our freedom back by cutting government aid. Let us make our money and spend it on ourselves and others, instead of to the government. I would gladly give up healthcare, social security, disability, welfare. Instead of letting people free load, let the goodness of man cover them. Not the force of government.

            • Anonymous

              Bill Gates is giving his personal wealth and shut the fuck up and read something not on a Ron Paul blog or Fox.

            • pissed off

              You’d gladly give up disability? Spoken like someone who never had to spend their teenage years being the sole caregiver for their dying mother who worked 2 or 3 jobs for 52 years until she got a terminal and painful disease which killed her slowly while you had to go buy the basic food staples with food stamps and sleep with the front door wide open with a fan in front of it in the summer b/c disability doesn’t pay enough for you to be able to afford to run the ac.. There may be a lot of freeloaders in this country but there are a lot of hard working people that just get dealt a bad fucking hand, I suppose they should just be left to starve on the streets b/c you don’t wanna pay taxes? “Let us make our money and spend it on ourselves and others”???? Considering you’re words I highly doubt you would spend a nickel on others. Make any charitable donations lately? Yeah I thought not. Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes for once in your life you closed-minded pampered douche-bag.

        • Anonymous

          As someone who works in the Pacific Northwest, and works for non profits on top of that, I can safely say that you are very mistaken if you think Bill Gates has done nothing to help his own country. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is the largest foundation in world, and they support nearly every non profit in the Pacific Northwest. Yes, they provide aid and support for other countries as well, but when did helping your fellow human become an issue of borders? The Gates foundation provides support for EVERYONE.

  • Anonymous

    hmm i wouldnt exactly call malcom x a “good muslim.” he was a member of the nation of islam, a religion that teaches anti-semitism. he wanted black rights by any means necessary, he didnt care if any body got hurt

    • Harris M’barack

      thank you! finally someone who think as i do!!

      merci enfin quelqu’un qui confirme ce que je pensais… c’est une bêtise sans nom de qualifier Malcolm X en tant que BON MUSULMAN. 1° d’abord parce qu’il était loin d’être bon 2°ensuite parce que Nation of Islam n’est pas du tout reconnu par l’Islam orthodoxe !!! il n’est donc pas pour moi un vrai musulman

    • Anonymous

      He joined Nation of Islam but later turned to true Islam after his visit to Mecca (about a year before he died). Malcolm X was only trying to protect his community from police brutality and nothing short of civil race war. I don’t understand why people don’t get it– white people harassed, lynched, enslaved, humiliated, and controlled every aspect of black people and their lives. They deserved justice and they knew that the government or white people were not the ones who would help.

      • Tony M

        That’s true but looking back at the extremist approach he was willing to take was and is looked down upon by our modern society.

  • Harold Gorringe

    At first, I thought this had to do with facial hair…

    • shea

      hahahaha

      • Nico

        Me too!

  • Eminence Frontman

    Until we make an organized effort to eliminate Christianity, just as was done to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade, we as a civilization cannot move forward. When belief in an invisible bearded sky zombie becomes the basis for running a constitutional republic, we are all in deep doo-doo.

    • Brooks Martyr

      you really are ignorant of history. Next time you are wasting time at the coffee house try reading something that was not written by Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Hitchens, or Dawkins. Being a closed minded psuedo intellectual is no way to go through life.

      • Jack

        Don’t bring Vonnegut into this. All he wants is for people to be nice to each other.

    • wh666

      You are ignorant and a blatant racist, as you cite transatlantic slavery.

      Transatlantic slavery intruded on freedom, but at the time, many Africans lived in poverty with no centralised governments to provide for them, which made them easy to force in to slavery. Now their modern ancestors, have a far easier life unlike their family back on the African continent.

      Also Africans should be thankful for their part in slavery. If you knew anything about slavery, you would know that Africans were enslaved for the shortest period in history and the least numbers compared to other races.

      At the same time as the African slave trade, many other countries suffered from citizens being snatched and enslaved. Ireland, a relatively small country, had over three million abducted and sold in to slavery.

      Slavery still exists today among the longest and most enslaved race in the world, Caucasians. Eastern European women are promised jobs of being a waitress abroad and then beaten and sold as prostitutes. Some have tried to escape but had their legs broken and been treated far more cruelly than any African. Thousands are enslaved every year and some beaten and raped to death.

      So before you make a stupid, racist, cracker comment, maybe you should actually read your history books.

  • http://whocares.com what

    adolf hitler was not a christian. do some research.

    • misanthropope

      look, please never use the word “correlate” again. it’s a grown-up word, and you obviously don’t understand what it means.

    • http://ejesconsulting.wordpress.com ejes

      also hitler was a well known christian leader who had claimed in WRITING that he was doing gods work.

      do your reasearch!

      • Anonymous

        From Wikipedia:

        “In political relations with the church, Hitler adopted a strategy “that suited his immediate political purposes”. According to a US Office of Strategic Services report, Hitler had a general plan, even before his rise to power, to destroy the influence of Christian churches within the Reich. The report titled “The Nazi Master Plan” stated that the destruction of the church was a goal of the movement right from the start, but that it was inexpedient to express this extreme position publicly. His intention, according to Bullock, was to wait until the war was over to destroy the influence of Christianity”

        • anonymous

          You’re pulling your facts from Wikipedia? Try pulling a few quotes from Hitler’s book.

          I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

          - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 2

          Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

          - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 5

          I had so often sung ‘Deutschland über Alles’ and shouted ‘Heil’ at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.

          - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 5

          Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord’s grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

          - Adolf Hitler reflecting on World War I, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter 7

          i could go on but ill leave it at that.

          • Anonymous

            Hitler was not Christian! Hitler rejected Christianity.
            The book Hitler’s Secret Conversations 1941-1944 published by Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc.first edition, 1953, contains definitive proof of Hitler’s real views. The book was published in Britain under the title, _Hitler’s Table Talk 1941-1944, which title was used for the Oxford University Press paperback edition in the United States.

            All of these are quotes from Adolf Hitler:
            Night of 11th-12th July, 1941:

            National Socialism and religion cannot exist together…. The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity…. Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things. (p 6 & 7)
            10th October, 1941, midday:

            Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. (p 43)
            14th October, 1941, midday:

            The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death…. When understanding of the universe has become widespread… Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity…. Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity…. And that’s why someday its structure will collapse…. …the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little…. Christianity the liar…. We’ll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State. (p 49-52)
            19th October, 1941, night:

            The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.
            21st October, 1941, midday:

            Originally, Christianity was merely an incarnation of Bolshevism, the destroyer…. The decisive falsification of Jesus’ doctrine was the work of St.Paul. He gave himself to this work… for the purposes of personal exploitation…. Didn’t the world see, carried on right into the Middle Ages, the same old system of martyrs, tortures, faggots? Of old, it was in the name of Christianity. Today, it’s in the name of Bolshevism. Yesterday the instigator was Saul: the instigator today, Mardochai. Saul was changed into St.Paul, and Mardochai into Karl Marx. By exterminating this pest, we shall do humanity a service of which our soldiers can have no idea. (p 63-65)
            13th December, 1941, midnight:

            Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery…. …. When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let’s be the only people who are immunised against the disease. (p 118 & 119)
            14th December, 1941, midday:

            Kerrl, with noblest of intentions, wanted to attempt a synthesis between National Socialism and Christianity. I don’t believe the thing’s possible, and I see the obstacle in Christianity itself…. Pure Christianity– the Christianity of the catacombs– is concerned with translating Christian doctrine into facts. It leads quite simply to the annihilation of mankind. It is merely whole-hearted Bolshevism, under a tinsel of metaphysics. (p 119 & 120)
            9th April, 1942, dinner:

            There is something very unhealthy about Christianity (p 339)
            27th February, 1942, midday:

            It would always be disagreeable for me to go down to posterity as a man who made concessions in this field. I realize that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors– but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch Uin the next 200 yearse will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity…. My regret will have been that I couldn’t… behold .” (p 278)

          • Anonymous

            this is a propaganda book written by hitler to gain followers while he was in jail. he wrote that stuff to get support. He did want to abolish christianity! :o

          • Anonymous

            YAAA so try reading something more worthwhile than just 1 propoganda book! lololol RESEARCH!

          • Anonymous

            Considering he never once referenced Christ or the Bible, these quotes hardly support the idea that Hitler was a Christian. If anything, this shows that he believed in a god and was convinced he did the work of that god.

            Hitler was a Social/Political Darwinist. His writings made it clear he believed the Arians (especially blonde-haired, blue-eyed Germans) were a superior race and should eliminate the “inferior” Jews, blacks, and gays. His beliefs were, in reality, the logical progression of “survival of the fittest.”

        • Anonymous

          woah woah woah woah woahhhhhhhh. The Church and Christianity are incredibly different. The Church is run by men who are close to God. Christianity is purely God and all of his glory. See the difference? Church has man involved, an obvious flaw and corrupted by sin. One can be a full fledged Christian and not agree with the Church. So if Hitler wanted to do away with the Church, I’d say thats a good thing… It would allow people to fully give themselves to God without the hinderence of the political church. It doesn’t mean Hitler was not a Christian.

          • Anonymous

            You, sir, are a crazy person.

      • jay

        hitler was not a Christian. this is well documented. he was an evolutionist. he was NOT a Christian. many people who claim to be are not. Just because someone associates themselves with God or even Jesus, doen’t make them a Christian. Their actions confirm their words. listen to what people say with your eyes, not your ears

        • Anonymous

          damn…. believing in Creationism or evolutionism doesn’t matter. What matters is worshiping God and Jesus. If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your savior, no matter what else you think, you are Christian.

    • Anonymous

      Yeah he was.

  • Anonymous

    I think this is a great concept, but as people have said, Hitler wasn’t a christian, and Malcolm X and Bill gates are both debatable. That’s all that I would change though, it’s a good perspective though.

    • Anonymous

      Yes, Hitler was indeed a Christian.

  • Robert

    Religion quite often a front, a masquerade behind which criminals hide. Of course the same could be said for politics.
    The thing to remember here is, peoples actions count for far more than people’s words.

  • Annonymous

    Hahahahahahhahahah. You think Bill Gates is ethical? I suggest you do more research, man.

    • jay

      ethics are derived from ones own “moral” standard so idk. lots of weird stuff about him though

    • I Piss on Steve Job’s Grave

      Far more Ethical than Jobs ever could be.

  • http://ejesconsulting.wordpress.com ejes

    except that hiter claimed to be on a mission from god, as did osama bin ladin. but joseph stalin didn’t claim to be on a mission from atheism.

  • someone smart

    hitler was an aeithiest and malcom X was a bad guy just an fyi

  • Ducre

    Yeah I like the points made in this, however I disagree with certain characters chosen. The norm would be for me to be annoying about it all and say something to piss people off, but I’m not interested in that. Malcolm X was a jerk, sure he changed his violent ways before he got shot, but there are better muslims outs there to use as the positive. And i agree with the other posters about Bill Gates, sure his methods weren’t exactly agreeable, business is business, don’t play the capitalism game hoping to win millions if you can’t accept getting stepped on by those who actually win. Darwinism.

  • Frank

    How was malcom X a good person he was a black supremecist……..

  • Aldakoopa

    Malcolm X was a black supremacist. What the crap.

  • James

    Im sorry, I thought it was ‘ethics dont correlate with facial hair.”

  • Anonymous

    If you follow the teachings of the Christian religion then you’ll be ethical. But just saying “I’m a Christian” doesn’t make you anymore of a Christian then me saying, “I’m a goldfish” makes me a goldfish.

  • ggggg

    all the “good” people are somehow american…

    • Anonymous

      good eye. this post is lame.

  • Ben

    People comment on how much evil is done in the name of religion, then are rebutted by the non religious mass murders in history. The whole time they miss the connection between all the greatest evils to have ever walked the earth, its not religion its the state.

  • Fred

    The thing is that most evil religious people do the horrible things they do because it tells them they should in whatever religious text they subscribe to; they actually follow the precepts of their religion most accurately.

  • Rayeth

    “..religious moderates are giving cover to fundamentalists because of the respect that moderates demand of faith-based talk. Religious moderation doesn’t allow us to say the really critical things we must say about the abject stupidity of religious fundamentalism. And as a result, it keeps fundamentalism in play, and fundamentalists make very cynical and artful use of the cover they’re getting by the political correctness in our discourse.”

    -Sam Harris ( The End of Faith)

  • Rayeth

    “..religious moderates are giving cover to fundamentalists because of the respect that moderates demand of faith-based talk. Religious moderation doesn’t allow us to say the really critical things we must say about the abject stupidity of religious fundamentalism. And as a result, it keeps fundamentalism in play, and fundamentalists make very cynical and artful use of the cover they’re getting by the political correctness in our discourse.”

    -Sam Harris ( The End of Faith)

  • tim

    “..religious moderates are giving cover to fundamentalists because of the respect that moderates demand of faith-based talk. Religious moderation doesn’t allow us to say the really critical things we must say about the abject stupidity of religious fundamentalism. And as a result, it keeps fundamentalism in play, and fundamentalists make very cynical and artful use of the cover they’re getting by the political correctness in our discourse.”

    -Sam Harris ( The End of Faith)

  • Mother

    And remember When god puts you all in the ovens, it will be forever.

  • Erick

    I think the main thing that people are missing, is that it doesn’t matter about what religion one belongs to. A lot of people are baptised into the Catholic Church and yet when they mature, they completely disagree with its teachings. Religion doesn’t correlate with ethics at all, however being devout to a religion and acting according to its rules does. Christianity is about love, forgiveness and being morally and ethically correct, and as far as I know, Muslims do refer to Allah as “merciful” and “compassionate” too. If anyone tells you that religion supports any sort of hatred, then I suggest you stop listening to them and walk away.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you should read some more about Bill Gates…

  • mattvdm

    awful examples for a good point. calling hitler a christian is spurious/cheap, he decimated swathes christianity in germany. and malcolm x was a racial separatist, and inciter of violence. putting him and MLK on the same side is frankly offensive.

  • Anonymous

    Malcolm X called for violence and anarchy. He wasn’t a nice muslim?

  • Joe

    soooooo, all in all, this meme is a fail?

  • Anonymous

    What does it make you evil or good, the fact that you’re or not a friend of the USA?

  • Anonymous

    Jeje! Bill Gates?

  • Cjc

    Umm.. interesting idea, faulty logic… your description of people as being either good or evil draws on moral and ethical categories which assume some sort of universally applicable ethic… ie.. calling Bin Ladin “evil.” Your argument breaks down from a position of moral relativism… This argument needs religion or at the very least an idea of universal good and evil to survive…. “being good” is a relative statement and you couldn’t judge anyone else by your standard without a universal application..

    PS secular humanism doesn’t work either, it derives its ethical standards from judeo-Christian norms..

  • Kashif

    good idea, but poor knowledge
    Malcom X doesn’t represent Muslims, you could have given more examples.

  • Mr.Mustacho

    religious people are only good when they’re black?

    the real revelation here is is that facial hair causes all evil
    (Luther cheated on his wife)

  • Zegin

    Hitler was not christian. In his own words, “National Socialism and religion cannot exist together…. The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity…. Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things.”

  • Liu Xaun

    Don’t call call people evil. It defeats the purpose of your message entirely.

  • http://www.halfbakedpotatoes.com/creamofthecrop Half Baked Potatoes

    Ha, all I got from this was be careful with facial hair. One small mustache could be the difference between good and evil!

    Funny drunken mayhem by clicking my name

  • Anonymous

    Hitler rejected Christianity and Malcolm X believed in violent military actions for African Americans against white Americans and wanted to further cause separation of the two instead of integration like the civil rights movements. This pic is an awful rendition of whatever point it was trying to make.

  • Anonymous

    FUCK OFF GUYS! Stop looking at the examples and look at the point.. Religion is a free and individual choice. unfortunately many religions come with a heavy political weight. The organization of religions causes bad things to happen because human are drawn to do bad things. When a bunch of people get together, someone is going to do something unethical, No matter what background these groups of people come from. And sometimes that person might just be a leader of the group. That doesn’t mean the whole group is unethical. I love this post, not for the examples, but for the point that is made with your words and the situations in which these people changed.

  • Anonymous

    HITLER, STALIN, AND BIN LADEN KILLED TONS OF PEOPLE!!
    KING, MALCOLM X, and BILL GATES DIDNT!

    Thats his basis for good and evil. TO ME THAT SUMS IT UP PRETTY WELL!

    • andres

      well you have low standards…malcolm x was not hitler but he was not good, he was a black supremacist and a criminal…if killing determines good vs bad your idea of right and wrong is outdated by some hundreds of thousands of years…

  • olvap

    Bil gates is a good person? may be not the best example.

  • olvap

    ha! all the good guys are americans. Hitller wassnt cristian, you should use ex president Bush. but you have a lot of good examples in your cuntry.

    • Anonymous

      Forgetting your shit spelling, Hitler was indeed a Christian.

  • ethan

    why is osama bin laden evil? i think hes a hero

  • wouldntyouliketoknow

    Worst stumbleupon ever!
    & your guys comments aren’t even worth reading…let me hit the stumble button again and find something better.
    THUMBS DOWN losers/racists

  • chip

    you used really bad examples for christians and muslims… martin luther king jr cheated on his wife constantly… malcolm x proposed killing white people numerous times… also one could hardly call hitler a real christian, similarly one could hardly call bin ladin a muslim. just my opinion. i do agree with what you were getting across, i just think you used poor uses of people.

    • Yeah Prolly

      Who do you think they should have used? Mind you, the whole point is that the people be iconic to nth degree.

  • Anonymous

    Malcom X was a militant extremist. your argument is invalid

  • Alive

    Yeah, facial hair does!

  • Tara

    Hitler wasn’t Christian….

  • Yeah Prolly

    “Religion, or lack thereof, does not always correlate with ethics.” would have been better also. But I like this as well. Tremendously so. Annnnnd (try not to die of shock) I’m a Christian.

  • Anonymous

    Hitler wasn’t Christian, he was agnostic.

  • Jo Dawg

    Check up your history Malcolm X, wasnt a good Muslim.

  • Opinionated *and* educated

    Adolf Hitler stated that the greatest evil he had to deal with was Christianity and his plans of genocide were fueled by the theories of natural selection and evolution. Fact Check. Please and thank you.

  • Phil E. Drifter

    religitards are greedy. They’re not happy with their finite life, they think they can live FOREVER… (after they die) if they adhere to rules that were finally written down by primitives after figuring out they could write them down instead of embellishing them with each retelling.

    They were tripping balls on natural drugs like hallucinogenic (psylocybin) mushrooms, peyote… cannabis…

  • andres

    True, and nice poster by the way BUT you are just agreeing with what an atheist would tell you about religious people and atheists alike. Yes, there are good and bad religious people just as there are good and bad atheists but what is terrible is when a good person sees an otherwise bad act as good or acceptable or required by the religion they practice. I don think this can be said of those who seek to reduce human suffering by interpreting thousands of years of data describing suffering? These people are mostly not religious (though some religious people subscribe to these beliefs) these people are deists, agnostics, atheists. Religion has been an essential part of human evolution but we’ve reached a point where those beliefs which are based on miraculous stories can kill millions and we simply cannot afford to ignore this. Extremism exists and it is a product of religion.
    On a last note, Stalin did not kill millions of his people because of his atheism, but who here has an example of people killing “because it said so” in their religious book?

  • imjustaman

    February 28, 2012 at 1:54 PM

    Anon, You’re absolutely right!
    People need to understand what is really going on.. They say people who are Depressed have got the idea in this day and age;Life is what you make it, the mind is a powerful thing.. Pitty we don’t use our full potential because of this… ‘economy’ we live in.. Nothing you can do about it unless we
    UNITE AS ONE!

    divided we fall- IN NUMBERS WE STAND! STRONG!
    LIKE FUCKIN REALLY HARD METAL!

  • Tyler

    Hitler wasn’t a christian and Malcolm X wasn’t good.

  • Jalon

    I don’t have a “holy” book that extols the virtues of genocide towards those of a different belief system. I am not required to believe that the same “god” that ordered theses atrocities is a loving one.

  • mildly amused

    Hitler was not a Christian. He was an atheist.

  • Anonymous

    This is garbage. Back to the drawing board.

  • AnAlchemist

    I’d keep the “not always” because of Divine Command Ethics

  • jose

    did someone else realized that all the good people there were american?

  • Anonymous

    can we all just saY karma will bite ya in da ass!!!

  • Nerfherder17

    Any religious person would claim that their opinions on ethics were given to them by God, as God is the one which (according to religious people) makes the rules. Religion always corresponds with ethics, Hitler almost certainly thoguht he was doing the moral thing.

  • Butthole Jr.

    Nope, it conflates with bad facial hair, apparently.

  • JoeClark

    Bill Gates is a eugenicist who promotes vaccines as a means of population reduction. He also recently took a huge stake in Monsanto, a corporation whose toxic food is known to cause sterility, cancer and a host of other health problems. Gates is one of the biggest criminals of our era and reportedly is very close to being revealed as such. (See benjaminfulford (dot) net)

    Amongst many other problems I have with your choices.
    This whole article is riding “teh fail boat”.

  • Datamonkee

    You ass monkies are totally missing the point.. way to nit pick a good statement with the minutia of idiocy.

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