Sam Harris has a great interview with Steven Pinker on his latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Harris sits down with Pinker for a discussion about the history of violence. Sam Harris asks, “Need I remind you that the ‘atheist regimes’ of the 20th century killed tens of millions [...]
The trend of conservatives making light of the Holocaust and throwing about Nazi comparisons is getting uglier. So much that 400 rabbis have taken note. A full-page advertisement by 400 rabbis in today’s Wall Street Journal has put a spotlight on a trend many people see as alarming: the use of the word Nazi to bash opponents [...]
This is getting sick. The Holocaust was a horrific atrocity and watershed event in human history. The meaning of the word is being distorted and demeaned in political rhetoric and casual comparisons. Over the last few years, U.S. political discourse has been saturated with opponents accusing each other of Nazi-like policies or behavior. Most recently, [...]
Hitler’s Children, an interesting documentary on the dialogue between children of Holocaust survivors and the children of the perpetrators.
Despite all evidence Adolf Hitler was a Christian, some still blindly assert he was an atheist. Why? To imply all atheists are bad, of course. The following photos provide a pictorial glimpse of Hitler, how his Nazis mixed religion with government, and the support for Hitler by the Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany. In, [...]
Extremism and domestic terrorism seem to be on the rise, or at least more prevalent. At U.S. News: A month before a suspected white supremacist walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington and opened fire, the Department of Homeland Security warned that domestic right-wing extremism was the most pressing domestic terrorist threat that [...]
