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This is odd. It's almost funny-to-me, but not actually; I think because I'm not recognising the source material it's parodying.
My guess is that it's a fill-in-the-blanks copypasta of some screed, possibly originally against theism? (I remember the "Cafeteria <noun>" pattern from somewhere).
The phrase is a common criticism by Christians of other slightly different Christians. From an outside view, of course, the difference just looks like one of selection.
I have no idea where I adapted the text from. I wrote it a few years ago, found it again recently and went "where the heck did I get that from?" Creationist and Conservapedia sentences, I think, adapted, exaggerated and strung together.
The intended takeaway is "There is no shortage of rationalists using [label] as a proxy for their own beliefs" and an implied "don't be one" :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafeteria_Christianity
If anyone is curious about Hitler, it's quite a mess: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Table_Talk#Hitler.27s_comments_on_religion