A curious story - My uncle (my dad's brother) went to travel abroad in Mozambique (Africa) and it was supposedly a temporary measure to make some side money but he loved it so much he married a black woman and had kids with her - I remember my grandmother cried about it all the time and while she still considered him her son it was never the same again. Once he came to Portugal and brought his kids - Back in the day I was about four years old and it was a time when seeing a black person, specially in the north, was quite rare - I confess I probably didn't know about the existence of black people, I thought everybody was supposed to be like me and my family (white) - I went to my grandmother's house with my family (at the time only dad and mum) to have lunch and I played with my black cousin - It was amusing, and because I was a jerk every now and then I locked him in an old storage granny had - He started yelling saying "let me out let me out" and I said something like "Shut up nigg**!" (The Portuguese word to offend black people is not nigg** but I'm translating it so that people get the point) - Lesson to learn - I was never taught to be racist against anyone and I didn't even know about the existence of other races, but I reacted with distrust and mockery towards my black cousin - It was not learned behaviour, I simply felt like behaving that way; and I needn't say that if the kid was white I wouldn't have called him a "cracker".
Humans have a tendency to pick on different specimens - Whether it is because they're fat, short, darker skinned, disabled, etc, is a matter of context. Of course religion justifies racism every now and then but racists will exist regardless of religious beliefs. In many ways I still believe Nazism and fascism (please bear in mind fascism is broader and nazism is merely a sub-sect of fascism) are partially if not fully anti-religion/anti-Christian - The fact Hitler had the help of Muslim divisions or Mussolini promoted Catholicism is irrelevant - Ideologies that require a huge commitment to something like the State, the leader or the nation's values from an abstract conception are incompatible with religion because you can't worship and dedicate yourself to two ideas at the same time - Nazism, in particular, is incompatible with Christianity because of the whole "help the poor, weak, disabled, etc" and the "god created every man equally" motto churches now promote. I don't care that the Catholic church supported Hitler, they didn't like jews for many reasons, but to argue nazism is pro-religion is naive - It is only pro-religion when it benefits the State and the bloodline purity of the aryan race. I don't see why I should actually believe Hitler was a devout Christian Catholic - He said many things to manipulate people, some of them true, but most were not - Why should I believe that he was a Catholic anymore than I believe Jews are truly an evil race?
Humans have a tendency to pick on different specimens - Whether it is because they're fat, short, darker skinned, disabled, etc, is a matter of context. Of course religion justifies racism every now and then but racists will exist regardless of religious beliefs. In many ways I still believe Nazism and fascism (please bear in mind fascism is broader and nazism is merely a sub-sect of fascism) are partially if not fully anti-religion/anti-Christian - The fact Hitler had the help of Muslim divisions or Mussolini promoted Catholicism is irrelevant - Ideologies that require a huge commitment to something like the State, the leader or the nation's values from an abstract conception are incompatible with religion because you can't worship and dedicate yourself to two ideas at the same time - Nazism, in particular, is incompatible with Christianity because of the whole "help the poor, weak, disabled, etc" and the "god created every man equally" motto churches now promote. I don't care that the Catholic church supported Hitler, they didn't like jews for many reasons, but to argue nazism is pro-religion is naive - It is only pro-religion when it benefits the State and the bloodline purity of the aryan race. I don't see why I should actually believe Hitler was a devout Christian Catholic - He said many things to manipulate people, some of them true, but most were not - Why should I believe that he was a Catholic anymore than I believe Jews are truly an evil race?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
