<p>We don’t have to pray, though many choose to…as well, many practice meditation, often involving a mantra, and other forms of silent thought. At the very least it works wonders on the nerves may even lead to some happy and transcendent ending too. Certainly when the faithful are praying they are not out robbing a bank, or launching a cultural revolution, or executing those with college degrees, or bustin’ a cap into those wearing reading glasses.</p>
<p>Hitler? I’m sorry, what religion was Hitler a congregant to? Im unfamiliar with him belonging to any traditional faith. Do you mean that he liked the trappings of the occult? How clever of you to think of that as being religious; there are those who would say that only through submission and self sacrifice can anyone be a person of faith (those that are referred to as being poor in spirit in Christianity, or those seeking nirvana in Buddhism, or those seeking fana in Islam) its pretty much all the same in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. The Nazi leader did not seem to be humbly submissive to anything we could reasonably call transcendent. </p>
<p>Then, that leaves the greatest butchers of all, Stalin and Mao. Any chance they were secret converts to the faith too? Or at least some way we could shoe-horn them into a church, temple, mosque or synagogue? That would be very clever indeed.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>