Keiran,

Be honest in your selective quotations from Hitler......you fail to quote the many statements of his which clearly show his loathing of Christianity as well as Judaism.....so he rejects the Judeo/Christian God. I see you still have a fetish about "teddy bears". You should get seen to about this.....I'm sure there's help available.

Keiran,
What is your claim? Are you saying Hitler was an example of the life and attitudes of Jesus Christ. To call onself a Christian means to live as Christ and display his attitudes.

To claim to be Buddahist means to live by the example set by Buddah. If you live by somthing else and call yourself a Buddahist it does not make you an example of a Buddahist.

If you are a atheist and you say prayers each night to God in the belief he hears your thoughts, does not make you an atheist.

If you are presenting examples of Christians I suggest you at least find people who lived his life and attitudes. It only shows the distorted view you hold of Christ and those that can be called his disciples. Hitler had more in common with the life and attitudes of Hammas or Iran than any semblence of Christ.

Quoting Hitler like that, to prove a very tenuous point of view, calls for a classic comment from Jesus, the Jew, (who is adored by Christians, and Messianic Jews alike!)

"You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!"
How did you manage to swallow that very humpy camel?

Best to come to terms with his Risen Presence - the hound of heaven, who's really bugging you, I reckon.

B. F. Skinner proposed the stimulus-response model of behavior and someone else proposed the cognitive science model. But behavior is neither just caused by stimuli in the environment nor is it blind execution of internal plans. Well we get comments from Francis, Philo and Tennyson to the selected quotes from Hitler that prove that living organisms do not "respond to stimuli" rather they control input variables. i.e. behavior is produced by comparing inputs with desired inputs, and using the difference to drive output or behaviour. Their purposeful behaviour is a means of controlling their own perceptions.

When reading these Hitler quotes, if your perceptions are limited to a religious playpen we will get Francis's "Keiran, Be honest in your selective quotations from Hitler" because it is selective only of his fetish perceptions.

Philo, with his comment "It only shows the distorted view you hold of Christ and those that can be called his disciples." is similarly selective of his particular fetish perception.

Tennyson similarly with ... "Best to come to terms with his Risen Presence - the hound of heaven, who's really bugging you, I reckon."

What then does a non-theist Keiran say about these Hitler quotes where Hitler is demonstrably damming of atheism? e.g. "which is a return to the state of the animal". Well my behaviour comes from wider and inclusive perceptions. My earlier comment on this was about tyrant dictators where they were not about democracy nor a secular democracy because they assumed the position of an omnipotent teddy (god).

i.e. These Hitler quotes seriously point to people drilled in accepting, believing, in faith, and unthinking obedience to an all powerful 'teddy' figure as all part of the same picture.

Perhaps we can move to Solomani's " favourite pet peeve and ....... areas of academic expertise." .... evolution. lol

Aah! The omniscient Kieran with his teddy bear fetish......proving that he hasn't grown up and not capable of responding to simple challenges to his muddled thinking. Kieran, I left my teddy bear years ago......you're still carrying yours.

Keiran,
When you actually understand human behaviour then we might begin to believe you. With this pseudo analysis of pschhology you have dismally failed.

Quote, "Well we get comments from Francis, Philo and Tennyson to the selected quotes from Hitler that prove that living organisms do not "respond to stimuli" rather they control input variables. i.e. behavior is produced by comparing inputs with desired inputs, and using the difference to drive output or behaviour. Their purposeful behaviour is a means of controlling their own perceptions."

Until you realise you are standing outside the human mind making clinical comments suggest there is a part of you that is not defined by your own analysis. It is called the will or the spirit. You will continue in your vanity and infantile foolishness because it defines who you are. Engage intellect and reason!

James the elder step brother of Jesus and son of Joseph said, "Devils believe in God and tremble." As in Jesus day the religious demons who had Jesus crucified were Jewish zealots. They believed they were doing the will of God. The apostle Paul believing he was doing Gods will had followers of Jesus put to death before his conversion. [Read Acts] A disciple is one who emulates his master not one who sprouts the teaching of the master. A true Buddahist is one who practises the masters teachings, not one who sprouts the teachings of the master.

The nature of your spirit reflects juvenile antagonism, and you attempt to degrade by infantile patronising comments. Engage intellect and mature!