There's nothing blurry about what I posted
To you, obviously. Two of us didn't feel that way. All that was being asked for was some clarity.
You're intelligent etc etc.
Hey, don't do a Smithers on me !
You're wasting your time here at HR
Well, if I am, it's my time to waste.
Compile all of the posts you have made concerning your transition from atheism to Christianity. Collate every word you have posted. It all amounts to a book you should write
Now, would I be being somewhat paranoid if I were to say that I detected an
edge in that statement ?
If you have a problem in me sharing my experience when backing up what I may say that helps explain an opinion I might opine, well there's little I can do about that.
There's quite a bit you can do about it though.
"There isn't really such a thing as a follower of Christ that isn't a convert."
Your words. Not mine. Splitting hairs?
At the risk of incurring your displeasure, all my great intelligence that causes me to be wasting my time on a music recording forum ain't helping me.
I don't know what point you are making here.
Go write your book about how enlightened you are with your newly discovered Christianity
Ouch !
And it was discovered in 1985. It's not new and I'm not in the first flushes of some loin-stirring
lurrrrrve.
Write your book. Explain why you think that "even if most Germans had been converted to think like like Hitler that the conversion (mindset) was somehow neutral? The extermination of 12 million Jewish men, women, and children wasn't neutral
Once again, you're talking in semi-riddles. I haven't a clue what you're going on about.
Let's try again.
Conversion, in and of itself {I've made that point twice before} is neutral. Not the actions that may follow the conversion, not any mindsets that may be adopted once a conversion has taken place.
I think that in Germany, for a very long time, there existed a view about Jewish people that was beyond unhealthy, that was disgusting and that would have remained whether Hitler had risen to power or not. It may not have resulted in the mass deaths that it did, but the attitude long predated the actions that went on to disgust much of the world.
Now, I don't dispute that
some people were newly persuaded by the speeches and actions of the Nazis. But for a population to go down that path in the way the Germans did, there needed to be an underlying tinderbox to ignite.
And there was.
If you disagree with that, that's OK. I don't have a problem with that. But I back up what I say and like in the thread we were talking about Luther, I showed that it went at least as far back as his time.
Thus far, you haven't been clear about your point about 'conversion'.
Stalin did much worse post WWII
I totally agree. He also did some terrible things before WWII. I don't have any awe or respect for Stalin.
