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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2010 at 22:30
Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

I'm going to attempt to steer the debate in a more productive and conciliatory direction by suggesting that a theist can not be a real prog music fan.

But some of the greatest musical minds of all time (not just your 20-year simple prog) have been theists... just one word: BACH. And examples abound.... 

...And we also have prog artists who are theists. 

You can be stupid and be a prog fan. 
You can be narrow-minded and be a prog fan. 
You can be fat, obese, thin, anemic and be a prog fan. 
You can be a pop fan and a reggaeton fan and be a pop fan. 
You can even be a prog-hater and be a prog fan (you'd just a repressed prog fan really)

The only thing you can't be if you are a real prog musicv fan is, you really can't be DEAD. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2010 at 22:56
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:


...And we also have prog artists who are theists. 

 
 
Of course is a joke by Textbook, but you are right, many Prog artists are religious:
 
Lets start with Rick Wakeman (Christian),  Kerry Livegren (Christian), all Glass Hammer (Christians), Proto Kaw (Christian), Geddy Lee (Jewish), Neal Morse (Christian), John Lodge (Christian), Vangelis (Orthodox) Peter Gabriel (Christian with sympathy for Buddhism).Most of the Italian Prog musicians are Catholic, Dave Cousins (Catholic/Anglican), IONA ((Christians)etc
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2010 at 23:17
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:


Of course is a joke by Textbook, 

I wouldn't be so sure.... WinkTongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 03:46
So it happens that Hitler have a political care of the power of churches even the jew one in the begining!
The first encounters of the catholic church with Hitler was precisely about the eugenic processes against the boys with mental illness.
Answering your arrogant pose i would beg you to mind that mister Galton (founder) and the son of Darwin himself was the second president of eugenic society. I dont have time to search the quote now im going travelling but the first thing you could do is really read " The origin of the especies"....you must know your profets words dont you think?....... if not probably you will end saying Darwin discovered evolution LOL
About Hitler do some research and you find that his aim was to create a new terrible race based on nietzsches vision of the "blond beast"...he was pagan politicaly and internaly, doesnt matter what he did for washing his face....you can search for quotes evrywere in the internet...i recommend trevors ropper book and speer book to see what im talking about.
But when im comeback if you still talking this things i guarantee you that your gonna get what you want...even if you dont like it. Quotes....yeah...a bunch of them indeed.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 03:49
Originally posted by shockedjazz shockedjazz wrote:

So it happens that Hitler have a political care of the power of churches even the jew one in the begining!
The first encounters of the catholic church with Hitler was precisely about the eugenic processes against the boys with mental illness.
Answering your arrogant pose i would beg you to mind that mister Galton (founder) and the son of Darwin himself was the second president of eugenic society. I dont have time to search the quote now im going travelling but the first thing you could do is really read " The origin of the especies"....you must know your profets words dont you think?....... if not probably you will end saying Darwin discovered evolution LOL
About Hitler do some research and you find that his aim was to create a new terrible race based on nietzsches vision of the "blond beast"...he was pagan politicaly and internaly, doesnt matter what he did for washing his face....you can search for quotes evrywere in the internet...i recommend trevors ropper book and speer book to see what im talking about.
But when im comeback if you still talking this things i guarantee you that your gonna get what you want...even if you dont like it. Quotes....yeah...a bunch of them indeed.


Oh ffs.

Where did you research this.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 03:58
Hitler was interested in the autoritarian and jerarquic estructure of catholic church...he wanted to do something similar in a dark romantic paganistic way, also was interested in the material and moral power of the church in Europe he needed them close to him.
Hes intention was that nazisim ( the party) became a religion ( a blood ties religion a race religion) you can find speeches on youtube on that...also they celebrated german baptasings and things like that documented? of course you have several documentarys in the net.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:07
Hitler and the Nazi Party - they were was never a religious organisation or intended to act as a religion. The aspects of volkisch nationalism that the Nazi party developed during the 1930s was National Socialism at it's most core level. A part of this volkisch nationalism was the promulgation of initially positive eugenics (the development of superior genetics and the protection of human health) and gradually declined through a slow process into negative eugenics - the destruction of unworthy life. The Catholic church in Germany was an extension of Nazi ideology because it came to represent the glory, supremacy and power of the Germanic peoples. I'm not sure what you mean about Paganism, but I assume you mean that the Church was representative of wider Aryan culture, rather than simply a religion.

Nazism was never a religion, Hitler's megalomania may have made it seem so, but this was a classic trait of his cult of personality. People wanted power in Nazi ranks - people like Bormann, Goering, Steicher, Himmler and Eichmann all strove to please him because they knew service to Hitler was the only real corridor of power in Nazi Germany. The bureacracy of volkisch nationalism in Germany allowed the true face of Nazism thus to be hidden behind a facade of cultural progressivism, futurism and delusion.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:13
when i come back i will setlle that even with bibliographie...hope you search on the net before i come back.

"Todo cruzamiento de razas provoca tarde o temprano la decadencia del producto híbrido, mientras el elemento superior del cruzamiento sobreviva en puridad racial. Cuando se ha b*****deado hasta el último vestigio de la unidad racial superior, es cuando desaparece para el producto híbrido el peligro de extinción”.
Spanish wikipedia
"Debe procurar que sólo engendren hijos los individuos sanos, porque el hecho de que personas enfermas o incapaces pongan hijos en el mundo es una desgracia, en tanto que el abstenerse de hacerlo es un acto altamente honroso”.
  • "En España, bajo la dominación de los Árabes, la civilización alcanzó un nivel que raramente se ha repetido. La intromisión del cristianismo ha traído el triunfo de la barbarie. El espíritu caballeresco de los Castellanos es efectivamente una herencia de los Árabes. Si Carlos Martel hubiera sido derrotado, el mundo habría mudado su faz. Ya que el mundo estaba condenado a la influencia judaica (y su subproducto, el cristianismo, ¡es algo tan insípido!), hubiera sido mejor que triunfara el Islam. Esta religión recompensa el heroísmo, promete a los guerreros la gloria del séptimo cielo" (28/08/1942, Hitler's Table Talk 1941–1944, Enigma Books, 2000, p.667).




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:15
Ok, well you can argue whatever you want, I don't have the time to trawl through historical scholarship to refute or add to anything you discover.

Also, I don't speak Spanish. Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGhdX1SI3KY
IT was not the want i was searching but it gives hints of what im saying....maybe it was the one in riefenstal movie when hes talking to the political elite...have no time hope you find it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:24
yes your so sure....my efforts in vainCry LOL
Maybe you need the scholarship your refering.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:31
I've got plenty of scholarship, but that's not the point.

The point is, Nazism and religion were linked through National Socialist volkisch culture... they enhanced the power and constructed legitmacy of each other. It was a political animal, not a sole mutation of religion.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:33
No i went to far i dont want to be arrogant myself, you can do whatever you want...
My apologies Any Colour Smile
In one week we keep it going.....just try not to be so closed...we disscus that with quotes texts and books.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:37
Originally posted by shockedjazz shockedjazz wrote:

No i went to far i dont want to be arrogant myself, you can do whatever you want...
My apologies Any Colour Smile
In one week we keep it going.....just try not to be so closed...we disscus that with quotes texts and books.


No worries.

I'm not closed though, I'm a history student - it's my job to be open and objective towards truth and research. By the way, don't believe everything you read.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:37
Yes exactly so a especific german religion obidient and totally linked to the party itself was settled.
Im not inventing:there were nazis baptizings, weedings and so on........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:40
Hitler adopted and adapted (perverted) any ideology that fitted with his demented view of the world. He even "endorsed" islam while condemning Christianity as being a Jewish byproduct (history wasn't his forte obviously) - why? because the arabic islam was actively antisemitic, not because he agreed with any of its theology.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:40
i will find quotes give me one week Smile
you als have to be carefull on your readings, as i im Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:45
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Hitler adopted and adapted (perverted) any ideology that fitted with his demented view of the world. He even "endorsed" islam while condemning Christianity as being a Jewish byproduct (history wasn't his forte obviously) - why? because the arabic islam was actively antisemitic, not because he agreed with any of its theology.


I'm not entirely sure Hitler condemned Christianity as a Jewish byproduct, but he did mutate religion into something he could use as an endorsement of Nazi ideology.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:46
Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Hitler adopted and adapted (perverted) any ideology that fitted with his demented view of the world. He even "endorsed" islam while condemning Christianity as being a Jewish byproduct (history wasn't his forte obviously) - why? because the arabic islam was actively antisemitic, not because he agreed with any of its theology.


I'm not entirely sure Hitler condemned Christianity as a Jewish byproduct, but he did mutate religion into something he could use as an endorsement of Nazi ideology.
Run shockedjazz's spanish quote through Google translate Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 04:56
Well, that contradicts things I have read before, including extracts from Mein Kampf. Anyway, I still don't think this is a valid point of distinction. Hitler's religious contempt was mostly irrelevant beyond the fact that he actively persecuted only one group - the Jews. He may have claimed some aspects of Christianity were "bland", but he definitely engaged in an active political mutation of religion, nationalism and culture. Such fusion was neccessary to gain and hold support for the Nazi Party as they progressed towards the state which eventually waged a campaign of war and destruction.

I guess, what I'm trying to say was that basically Hitler needed religion to justify much of his rhetoric.


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