(January 1, 2016 at 3:58 pm)TrueChristian Wrote:The Germans had a legitimate concern about the Jews being their domestic enemies. The Jews had been trying for decades to overthrow the German government. Guys like Herzl only gave them more reason to not trust them. They wanted to install communism and when that slipped they did it in Russia, which led to subsequent decades of conflict with the West. They continually urged the West to attack Germany, even going so far as to blackmail Wilson to declare war on Germany.(January 1, 2016 at 2:38 pm)abaris Wrote: 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.
True enough. Nazism was not a religious phenomena, even if it had religious people in it.
My point is that even if the RCC wasn't responsible for the holocaust, and even if Priests and nuns tried to hide Jewish refugees, the Church (and Christianity generally) helped pave the way for it by dehumanizing Jews for so long.
Even if the Nazi/eugenics ideology wasn't clerical, the clerical antisemitism helped Germans and others "Get on board" with it IMO.
Prior to WWII they instigated a world-wide boycott against German goods and services. They wanted to wreck the German economy. The Nazis wanted to deport all of them but some wouldn't leave. So the Nazis treated them as legitimate domestic enemies.
As far as religion is concerned, remember what it says in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=CEV
