faffi wrote on 07/09/18 at 13:22:33:We have the same discussions here, with some people fighting hard to keep the Norwegian culture. My reply to that is that - luckily - our culture is under constant change. For instance, until 1972 it was criminal to be homosexual here and you risked prison. Women were only given common right to vote in 1913. And Norway became Christian by means no better than ISIS use today - if you refused to be a Christian, you lost your head. Literally. And now people fight to keep our nation Christian. If we were to turn Muslim, we will fight tooth an nail to stay that way a thousand years from now.
I really dislike religion. Religion really is the culprit for virtually every war and grief. No, that is not objective. It is highly subjective. But even Hitler was convinced he was backed by God. Or at least used God in order to get the German people behind him.
faffi, The problem here is you are simply incorrect, and I say that with all due respect. Yes there have been terrible things done in the name of religion and my comments here are not to try and justify those things. However the 20th century brought the greatest loss of life humanity has ever seen and it was all in the name of Secularism. Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong. Much of it was just racism like Rwanda. 120 million in total. Mao even stated that he would stamp out religion for all eternity. Funny thing is China is the fastest growing Christian Church in the world right now.
People like Hitler and Stalin were driven by the nihilistic worldview of 19th and 20th century philosophers such as Nietzsche.
The difference is: when Christians do horrible things such as the Crusades it is totally against the teachings of their Worldview. When secularist do horrible things like gas all the Jews, it is totally inline with a non theistic, survival of the fittest, Worldview