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I’m actually not sure, but I don’t believe the Henry VIII or Cromwell preached hatred of Jews the way Martin Luther did. The Nazis were able to sell totalitarianism by blaming the Jews for every evil and Germany was willing to accept that in part because of the religiously based hatred of Jews.


32 posted on 03/15/2008 11:22:53 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("...millions hate what they mistakenly think that the Catholic Church is." ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
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To: big'ol_freeper
I’m actually not sure, but I don’t believe the Henry VIII or Cromwell preached hatred of Jews the way Martin Luther did.

Okay, but you can't seriously argue that other branches of Christianity didn't at one time or another preach similar views about Jews.

Protestants did vote more solidly for the Nazis in the early 30s. There wasn't a large "Protestant Party" analogous to the Catholic Centre Party, and the old middle class liberal parties had collapsed.

But if you look at Nazi leaders and enthusiasts, you find many of them came from Catholic Bavaria and Austria, as Hitler himself did. They had a passion that the more phlegmatic and conformist Northerners lacked.

64 posted on 03/15/2008 12:05:20 PM PDT by x
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