RE: The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians
September 29, 2015 at 1:33 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2015 at 3:08 pm by JesusHChrist.)
Here'a a brief Q&A with a Jewish prof that expands a bit on the cultural background for the holocaust:
http://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Micros...203880.pdf
Even if the Nazi leaders weren't religious, the cultural environment provided fertile soil for turning ideals into action.
http://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Micros...203880.pdf
Quote:Now what did the devil want? The devil wanted to rule the world, and so the Jews,
possessed by the devil, wanted to rule the world. That, I think, is the origin of the idea
that the Nazis adopted, of a Jewish conspiracy to control the world. This developed
over time, of course, with its ups and downs. There were also some Christian trends,
or streams of thought, that were opposed to this, that were more pro-Jewish than that,
but they were a small minority. Overall, the Jew was the prototypical “other” in
Christian self-understanding.
Even if the Nazi leaders weren't religious, the cultural environment provided fertile soil for turning ideals into action.