The death of Catholicism.

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I suppose the holocaust, the culimination of 2000 years worth of Christian dehumanization of Jews, embarassed the Church into acknowleding the humanity of the Jewish people.

The Holocaust had much more to do with the idea of Eugenics and German nationalism, surfacing in the late 19th century than it had with the old clerical antisemitism. It had absolutely nothing to do with religion. In fact, the people calling the shots, went to great lengths to make it look a biological necessity. Bullshit, of course, but not rleigious bullshit.