If you remember your Bible, the Hebrews in question were not exterminated. — Olivier5
It is an unfortunate polemical statement. It's very different from Hitler's "scientific racism". — Olivier5
you forget — Apollodorus
he expected many to be killed as a result of the revolution the two of them were promoting. — Apollodorus
It's the same ideology. The only difference is that Marx and Engels had no means of implementing their ideology whereas Hitler did. — Apollodorus
Indeed. The best you can do is ally yourself politically, maritally or otherwise with some who do share enough of your values, in the hope of promoting them. — Olivier5
she gets her will done, while I fix things around the house easily, and know the difference between postmodernism and logical positivism. On top of this, I constantly crack jokes she does not like, and she still smiles and closes one eye to them, while she speaks trivial stuff and I listen intently and make big eyes at what she says, and agree with her all the time. For the two of us it's a small price to pay for the benefits we give and take, and we mutually revel in the joy of the exchange. — god must be atheist
A thorough survey of the philosophy of ethics reveals a stark and disturbing truth viz. no existent moral theory that's made a clean break from theism manages to draw a clear boundary between that which is moral (good, mandatory) and immoral (bad, prohibited). I — TheMadFool
Marx achieved far more than Hitler. You can say what you want of Stalin but the USSR was a country of peasants in 1917, and it won the space race less than 50 years later, while also winning the second world war in the meantime... So communism did work for them, in a way that Nazism did not. — Olivier5
Yeah, religion...or ideology. — Janus
I can't think of anything that is ideology free, can you? — Tom Storm
Killing "in the name of God" (or "destiny") is, IMO, a greater evil than killing in the name of the State alone (e.g. USSR, PRC, Khmer Rouge, NK) because in the latter case the killers know (and accept via indoctrination) that they sacrifice their guilt-less consciences to "the glory and defense" of the State, in contrast to those "doing God's will" and who thereby "believe" they are absolved of all guilt ("sin") — 180 Proof
Complementarity of skills is a good thing in a couple. But there need to be some common ground on values I believe. — Olivier5
You are not getting it. Which is worrying, given the point is so simple.
The claim that morality requires God (which is demonstrably true) is not equivalent to the claim that belief in God is necessary for moral behaviour. Indeed, they are so obviously not equivalent that I think anyone who regularly conflates them is a total berk. — Bartricks
I can't think of anything that is ideology free, can you? — Tom Storm
Trees, mice, birds, inanimate objects, many directly perceptible things, celestial bodies, causality. — creativesoul
moral norms and values are the prescriptions and values of God — Bartricks
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