The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

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And what faith did the persecutors hold? The vast majority of Germans in that era, including the ones who operated the death-camp machinery, were Christian. Little good it did them in moral guidance.

Therefore what? The Germans invaded Poland and occupied France as part of the Great Commission to spread the Gospel? No. They did it out of an idolatrous worship of State power. The faith of the German populous was irrelevant.

You clearly missed my point, which is that Christianity is no guarantee of morality.

My own opinion is that technology has not made us more wise, but has relieved us of the economic burdens that compromised our moral judgement. It seems to me that industrialization allowed the abolition movement to take hold among other things. At the same time, I doubt the internet would have become such a force so quickly had it not been for the ease with which it allowed pornography to be distributed. So before we go attributing all the evils in the world to religion or overstating its positive contributions we must recognize that other powerful forces are in play.

Except I didn't attribute the Holocaust to Christianity. I pointed out that the faith of its perpetrators didn't imbue them with the morality to refuse executing it.

In other words, Christianity is irrelevant to moral progress ... real-world progress which has clearly been made when compared to the morality espoused in the Abrahamic holy books.