Stay away from Islam

What does this mean: "according to legend...?" 

Mohammad wasn't really that special, just another warlord using religion to gain power, it worked so his warlord descendants kept it going.

And I do not disagree. But for some freaky reason, you Christians think if we do not damn Mohammad to hell with every breath we take, we are also Muslims or hate Christians so much that we will support Muslims. 

All three Abrahamic religious have been at each others throats since their inception and when you're not killing each other you are killing the rest of us. Any good you do, you turn around and destroy it. You'd think after 2000 years all of you've would calm down. 

Think how much happier this world would be if the Christians and Muslims had nothing to fight over...and nothing is all the proof either of you have that your God is the correct one and the whole planet must bend to your will. Zero evidence for both. Nada.   

Thou shalt not kill? Of course, you and me and them shalt not kill. Who’s arguing with that? Theists and atheists both agree killing is something no one should do and the full extent of the law should come down upon them. Amen, sista. 

But atheist do not persecute theists. Not on the basis of atheism alone. Sniping back and forth on the Internet is not persecution. Telling God is dead jokes is not persecution. Not saying Merry Christmas is not persecution. 

And Nazism was a religion in its own way. So was/is Communism. Even Capitalism can be a religion.

Yes, no doubt Islam is a crappy religion to treat its own believers like dogs. Hopefully, it will die off someday. In the meantime, we got to live with them. 

And there are other ideologies that also persecute people and they’re called Christians. They persecute other Christians as well. Me saying this to you is not persecution. 

There are great, good, God-loving people in the churches. I do not discount that. The churches were/are centers of learning of the arts and science, as well as cultural and moral values. They celebrate the poor people, not damn them. But they are not the problem. They are usually the first to get their heads chopped off, both literally and figuratively, when self-righteous get in a panic.

The reason you (and by you means those who make this argument) can never win the argument “theists are better than atheists,” or “theism is moral and atheism is not,” is because 1) you have nothing to support your authority over anyone else’s morality except via divine revelation, of which you have no evidence other than hearsay; 2) you have no claim to being morally superior other than your actions which the church universal has historical and currently failed to prove.

I’m sure you are a good person and devoted to your Lord. If going to mass and praying the rosary makes you joyful, then do it. I would never stand in the way of that. But I’m going to stand by my beliefs, which I don’t impose on others. 

 Yes, & he got the German people to believe that too.

Yes, enough of them anyway, as we've seen in recent years it doesn't even take a majority. He used the effective tactic of turning people against one another, Us vs Them. Liberal vs Conservative. Aryan vs Jew. Germany vs Europe. His politics don't neatly align with ours today unless you understand the underlaying mental gymnastics of Fear of the Other, combined with narcissism and a longing for a past that was never experienced. One of the reasons religions, especially fundamentalist religion, is so appealing to conservatives is it is also very resistant to change; that and its perceived role in tradition. Christianity at its root is a liberal religion, Jesus was basically a hippy, even though many practitioners are conservative. Islam is a far more conservative religion and double dangerous for it, as conservative ideas spread like an infection through uneducated populations. 

There is somewhat conflicting evidence regarding whether Hitler was a Christian or not. Stalin renounced his Orthodoxy, but Hitler never formally left the Catholic Church. In Mein Kampf, when he was younger, Hitler expresses statements of religious belief and says that he prayed on his knees when WWI broke out. In the 1920's, he called Jews 'brood of vipers' in speeches which is believed that he may have gotten from Martin Luther who used it in On the Jews and Their Lies and who presumably had taken it from Matthew 3:7. Later in life, Hitler made pro-Christian statements in speeches and told his adjutant Gerhard Engel in 1941 that 'I shall remain Catholic forever'.

In private, though, he seemed to harbor strongly anti-Christian sentiments later in life. Also in 1941, in Hitler's Table Talks, he alleges that Bolshevism is the illegitimate child of Christianity and that both of them were inventions of the Jews. He calls St. Paul (who some consider to be the founder of Christianity) a 'Jew' like Karl Marx, although he never mentions anything about Jesus himself being a Jew. He is furthermore recorded saying that Christianity was the heaviest blow that ever struck humanity.

It could be argued that Hitler did not renounce his Catholicism because he did not seek to deteriorate Germany's relations with the Vatican. He may have agreed with Napoleon who said 'Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet' and Seneca the Younger who said 'Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful'.

Nevertheless, there is not much evidence that Hitler was actually an atheist. Even if he was not a Christian, it has been suggested that he maintained a belief in some divine providence.