Thank you, Maritimus. Agreed. Hitler did not do it alone. It took a huge number of people, some willing, many coerced, to carry out his program. His harangues were powerfully effective in motivating people emotionally.

Monstrosity, like a cancer, emerges gradually, without a full plan at the start. Evil metastasizes.

I am one of the survivors.

I agree with you, puzzlelady.

From my personal experience and knowledge, the Catholic servants of Hitler's Germans, killed and burned alive anybody that they did not like because they were Orthodox Christians. I know of a man who was thrown into the fire under a boiler in his own factory. I know of a village where all the Orthodox were herded into their church, locked in and the building torched.

Not all Christians, nor all Germans are monsters. But neither that religion, nor that ethnicity provide an immunity against monstrosity.

Go ahead and rewrite history, but the Nazis were Germans, and most Germans were Catholic. German obedience to the Leader was a by-product of religious obedience.

Absolutely correct! Hitler was a pagan who hid behind the church, so long as it didn't challenge him. For dear Adolf, his form of worship was sitting through a Wagner opera, with its paean to the old Scandinavian/Germanic pagan deities. A significant number of Christians, Catholic as well as Lutheran, including many of the clergy, were sent to the death camps because they opposed Hitler's condemnation of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally disabled.

No, that was the Nazis and many Christians were persecuted as well.

Love that one too! Those Brits have a way with humor.

Stock up on Guns and Ammo we may need it yet if ISIS rears it's ugly head. With that said, a thought occurred to me that maybe they are the Beast of Babylon from the Book of Revelation. Although, I still think that the writer of Revelation was on a bad trip from a contaminated loaf of bread.

Well said/played on both counts!

As you wish, but I would mention that it was Christians who perpetrated the Holocaust.

Same here. And was it Churchill or Shaw, who, when a lady told him, "If you were my husband, I would put poison in your tea," replied, "Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it."

With regard to the statements quoted:

My mother put it another way: "That was mean thing to say but sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you." This was usually followed by "Now, if you continue to cry, I will really give you something to cry about."

This was said while my mother was drying my tears.

This confused me at first because I felt "hurt." But somehow this put what Johnny or Mary just said to me in a different perspective. Nothing they said could actually, physically hurt me. The only hurt I felt was caused by what I was thinking. As soon as I realized the speaker was mean - I didn't feel so bad.

Took some repeating...but I got it.

This little saying has fallen into disfavor. Shame.

Strange comment. If you thought this was a shot across my bow, you guessed wrong - I'm no Christian. That being said, I've never had a Christian of any flavor tell me he had to kill me because I was an unbeliever. There is a distinct difference between the Rapture folk and the Islamic "Twelvers." The Twelvers believe they have to act to bring about Armageddon to bring back the Twelfth Imam, but the Rapturist Christians believe that the end of the world is for God alone to decide. Between the two, I think I'd rather live with the Christians, who I know aren't going to threaten to kill me.

"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business." --The True Believer, Eric Hoffer.

Anyone who is offended chooses it, generally, because the are seeking "external validation;" they do not have the self-esteem, self-respect for themselves and they have to attach to someone else to give their lives some meaning. They are not individuals, they are pathetic parasites.

What about the extremist Christians who can't wait to see the end of the world so they can be taken up in the Rapture?

I learned this lesson as a teen reading The Fountainhead. It took but one sentence which was like turning on a light in a dark room. "But I don't think of you, Mr. Toohey." Ayn Rand taught me in those few words, more than a book full of psychological gobbledegook could. I realized that in order to be like Roark, it was important to be in control of myself. It took a while. It was harder than learning how to drive, but easier than rocket science.

For those who wonder why liberals want the rest of us to be so accommodating to extremist Muslims, I'll tell you why: the twisted psyche of the modern liberal extremist sincerely believes they are the only true "enlightened ones", and feel no remorse for the fate of those who do not acknowledge that "fact." Look at how they embrace the most extreme environmentalist position of the "Earth First" crowd, who endorse the idea of reducing the human population to no more than 100 million, by any means necessary; somehow, in supporting the justification of slaughter of the "unbelievers" by extremist Muslims, I think they feel that this may be one of the ways to reach that goal. Living in their fantasy world, it never seems to occur to them that they too are vulnerable to be taken out by one of the offended parties.

I figured Gulcher's would "get it" with my above post.

Good link! The Churchill/Shaw interchange was precious. I still love Churchill's drunk/ugly interchange.

What I read from this is that the terrorists are succeeding.

Everyone here who ain't a dino is a ninnyhammer!

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To those of particular religious persuasion and peculiar sensitivity, to make a drawing of the founder is offensive, to quote his teachings even without comment is offensive.
Regarding such feelings of offense, I am indifferent. . I am offended myself by the surrender monkeys saying only those feelings matter.
I have my own peculiar sensitivities in that mass beheadings, capturing and enslaving schoolgirls, placing offensive weapons in schoolyards and hospitals, are offensive to me. It seems it is bad to offend with ideas, but consideration must be given to violent nut cases.

Being offended is right and proper, it is a survival mechanism. What matters is how you deal with it.
Dr Hurd is wrong. Psychotherapy is the art of getting people to pay you for listening to their stories.

His comics are very interesting. You can download them to your computer. I'd never done that with a comic before

Thanks kh for posting. Brilliant guy, and article. I think I'd heard of him before (no pun intended), but in any case, have sent a friend request on Facebook...