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To: judywillow
I mean, Germans are totally competent people, inventive, industrius and all that and, if Martin Luther had convinced them to esterminate Jews, it would not have taken them 500 years.

So he was an incompetent genocide-advocate. Oddly enough, though, we have churches, schools and people here in Lincoln Nebraska, lovingly named after him. You'd think they'd be a little embarrassed.

You claimed there was no philosophical support in Christianity for Naziism. I gave you philosophical support from one of the founders of modern Protestantism. The objection that the Germans didn't get right down to butchering Jews, after Luther spewed out his venom, may have been partly because they were butchering fellow Christians for much of the next 200 years.

The basic reality is that Luther, despite any personal failings he might have had, taught Germans and others as well to read and learn what Christ himself had said instead of relying upon the interpretations of the catholic priesthood and, once the people started doing that, then so long as Christianity prevailed in those lands there would be no fear of genocide since nothing Christ himself ever said could be interpreted that way.

Luther disagreed.

It was only after Christianity had been essentially replaced with one of the great isms based upon the theory of evolution that any of these darker demons in the German psyche would ever be acted upon.

You haven't ever lived in Germany, have you? It's simply untrue to say Christianity has been replaced; it certainly hadn't in 1933. On the contrary, Catholic and Protestant states still have different holidays based on religious feast-days; the state still collects a 'Church tax' which goes to the church of your choice (and which isn't easy to get out of). When I lived there, in the mid-1980's, you still couldn't buy groceries on Sunday. Even today, 64% of Germans are still officially church members.

Some nice pictures of pro-Nazi Christians here. Sure doesn't look like it was supplanted to me.

596 posted on 01/25/2005 12:13:13 PM PST by Right Wing Professor (Evolve or die!)
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To: Right Wing Professor

Wait, are those bagpipes I hear warming up in the distance? ;)


597 posted on 01/25/2005 12:16:49 PM PST by general_re (How come so many of the VKs have been here six months or less?)
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