[Creggle]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

According to this quote his warped perception of Christianity propelled him towards the holocaust.

'My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross.”

Yep, religion itself isn't so bad (magnet for naivety at the worst) it's what it does to people that's bad. Somebody could read a passage from the Bible, Quran etc. and take it too literally or misconstrue its meaning, and suddenly it snowballs into a warped perception or ideology and it leads to atrocities like we've seen all through history. Religion is basically a weapon, some people wield it for the wrong reasons and kill/cause suffering to others. Unlike any other weapon though, there's no rules or regulations and there can't be really, so for the greater good it would be best removed or at least supervised. Both of those steps are nigh on impossible though, so we're stuck with nutcases like Hitler/ISIS running around doing their best to ruin the world, and people who devote their entire lives to religion that could of gone on to achieve wonderful things. I can respect why some turn to religion though, it gives a person false hope in this cesspit of a world we live in, and it's only human to cling to things like that, I guess some things we go through in life are easier to handle when we have faith to cling to.

Funnily enough I'm an optimist btw.