This Nuremberg Rally speech beautifully answers that silly point made by the pro-religionists, who justify the need for god by saying ‘look at the genocide caused by atheists like mao and stalin’.

Actually, the point is this: while ever the act of worshipping is seen as a virtue, the temptation to totalitarianism, fanaticism, fraud and to demagogy is always going to be there.

To Laura’s point, what if he happens to call for feeding the poor and sheltering the homeless? Well, fine, let’s hear it for Scientology and the Nation of Islam too, then, and all their good deeds.

What if he also invokes the ultimatum of Matthew 25:41, i.e. ‘believe in me or go to hell’?, and which he has done in the past in reference to the Jews, whom he claims are denied salvation. And by the way, his greatest inspiration is the late Wallie Chriswell ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.A._Criswell ) who blissfully looked forward to world destruction, like those nauseating novels by Tim LaHaye. People with views like that are a serious danger to the planet, especially with Iran on the verge of nuclear capability. **

Everyone, every philosophy and every belief should be treated with skepticism, questioning, ridicule if needs be. Including the belief that there can be no better morality than that of an eccentric preacher said to have lived in Palestine, 2000 years ago. Judge people’s reputations by actions, not the other way round. We need a to build an informed society where people base their world views on reason, evidence, logic. That’s the way to eliminate the Stalins and Pol Pots….

** The human race will be lucky to survive this century.

Remember that this is a heavily edited video clip, which I think deliberately conceals context.

One of the things I like about this site is that the writer help debuank selective reporting from conservative sources that smear the gay community. Lets not stoop to the same low standards in attacking back.

Jim I admire your work here tremendously, you can do better than this.

The horrors committed under Stalin were not part of Lenin’s plan nor were they extension of Lenin’s philosophies.

We are finally starting to see a clearer picture of the gross power-lust and fascist-leaning tendencies of Rick Warren and the rest of the Christianist movement. When more is revealed, perhaps the rest of America will see him for the hate-filled snake-oil salesman that he truly is.

Actually, the best place would be the Orange County Register.