Under God With Liberty

Jamesw84 wrote:

"RELIGION IS A MENTAL DISEASE"- Benito Musollini


I agree with this thesis strongly. Religion is a lie to get people to behave and feel unwarranted guilt on their part

Way to go, James. Great quote coming from a man who allied his nation with Hitler.

real life wrote:

Jamesw84 wrote:

"RELIGION IS A MENTAL DISEASE"- Benito Musollini


I agree with this thesis strongly. Religion is a lie to get people to behave and feel unwarranted guilt on their part

Way to go, James. Great quote coming from a man who allied his nation with Hitler.

Since when did Italy ally with Germany in WW2?

Jamesw84 wrote:

real life wrote:

Jamesw84 wrote:

"RELIGION IS A MENTAL DISEASE"- Benito Musollini


I agree with this thesis strongly. Religion is a lie to get people to behave and feel unwarranted guilt on their part

Way to go, James. Great quote coming from a man who allied his nation with Hitler.

Since when did Italy ally with Germany in WW2?

Yes, they did.

I am wondering why you aren't aware of this. Did you study history in an American public school?

How can people believe there is an afterlife in the first place? Has anyone seen it?

Sorry if I offended you

Jamesw84 wrote:

real life wrote:

Jamesw84 wrote:

"RELIGION IS A MENTAL DISEASE"- Benito Musollini


I agree with this thesis strongly. Religion is a lie to get people to behave and feel unwarranted guilt on their part

Way to go, James. Great quote coming from a man who allied his nation with Hitler.

Since when did Italy ally with Germany in WW2?

Yes, they did.

I am wondering why you aren't aware of this. Did you study history in an American public school?

real life wrote:

Jamesw84 wrote:

real life wrote:

Jamesw84 wrote:

"RELIGION IS A MENTAL DISEASE"- Benito Musollini


I agree with this thesis strongly. Religion is a lie to get people to behave and feel unwarranted guilt on their part

Way to go, James. Great quote coming from a man who allied his nation with Hitler.

Since when did Italy ally with Germany in WW2?

Yes, they did.

I am wondering why you aren't aware of this. Did you study history in an American public school?

I learned about WW2 and did the history subject up to year 10, then I dropped it because it made me feel so bored. I learned about the Aussies, the Germans and the Brits and the Yanks, and finally the Japs, never once learned about any of the other allies of the Germans :p

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (Predappio near Forlì, July 29, 1883 - Giulino di Mezzegra near Como, April 28, 1945) led Italy from 1922 to 1943. He created a fascist state through the use of state terror and propaganda. Using his charisma, total control of the media and intimidation of political rivals, he disassembled the existing democratic government system. His entry into World War II on the side of Nazi Germany made Italy a target for Allied attacks and ultimately led to his downfall and death. In November 2004 he was voted the 34th greatest Italian in a television poll....................

The term "Axis Powers" was coined by Mussolini, in November 1936, when he spoke of a Rome-Berlin axis in reference to the treaty of friendship signed between Italy and Germany on October 25, 1936. Later, in May 1939, Mussolini would describe the relationship with Germany as a "Pact of Steel", something he had earlier referred to as a "Pact of Blood".

As World War II (WWII) approached, Mussolini announced his intention of annexing Malta, Corsica, and Tunis. He spoke of creating a "New Roman Empire" that would stretch east to Palestine and south through Libya and Egypt to Kenya. In April 1939, after a brief war, he annexed Albania, a campaign which strained his military. His armed forces are generally considered to have been unprepared for combat when the German invasion of Poland led to World War II. Mussolini thus decided to remain 'non-belligerent' until he was quite certain which side would win.

On June 10, 1940, as the Germans under General Guderian reached the English Channel, Mussolini declared war on Britain and France. In October, Italy attacked Greece and lost in result 1/3 of Albania, until Germany attacked Greece as well. In June 1941, he declared war on the Soviet Union and in December he declared war on the United States.

Following Italian defeats on all fronts and the Anglo-American landing in Sicily in 1943, most of Mussolini's colleagues (Count Galeazzo Ciano, the foreign minister and also Mussolini's son-in-law, included) turned against him at a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council on July 25, 1943. King Vittorio Emanuele III called Mussolini to his palace and stripped the dictator of his power. Upon leaving the palace, Mussolini was swiftly arrested. He was then sent to Gran Sasso, a mountain recovery in central Italy (Abruzzo), in complete isolation.

Mussolini was replaced by the Maresciallo d'Italia Gen. Pietro Badoglio, who immediately declared in a famous speech "La guerra continua a fianco dell'alleato germanico" ("The war continues at the side of our Germanic allies"), but was instead working to negotiate a surrender; in a few days (September the 8th) Badoglio would sign an armistice with Allied troops.

Rescued by the Germans several months later in a spectacular raid led by General Kurt Student, Mussolini set up the Italian Social Republic, a Republican Fascist state (RSI, Repubblica Sociale Italiana) in northern Italy. He lived in Gargnano during this period. But he was little more than a puppet under the protection of the German Army. In this "Republic of Salò", Mussolini returned to his earlier ideas of socialism and collectivization. He also executed some of the Fascist leaders who had abandoned him, including his son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano. During this period he wrote his memoirs entitled My Rise and Fall.

On April 27, 1945, in the afternoon, near the village of Dongo (Como Lake), just before the Allied armies reached Milan, Mussolini, along with his mistress Claretta Petacci, was caught by the Italian partisans as he headed for Chiavenna to board a plane for escape to Switzerland. The day after, April 28, they were both executed along with their sixteen-man train, mostly ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic............

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How can people believe there is an afterlife in the first place? Has anyone seen it?

Anyone seen gravity lately?

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Sorry if I offended you

Your extreme ignorance is offensive...you are misguided, and forgiven nonetheless