To: Andyman
>> Richard Andrews said, "I feel the same way a Jew might feel if you put a state symbol on a swastika" <<
Ummm... checking my score card. Atheist Russians slaughter 30 million Christians; Atheist Chinese slaughter 100 million Bhuddists, etc.; Atheist Germans slaughter 20 million Christans and 10 million Jews... I'd compare it more to Nazis having to bear with a state symbol on a Star of David.
57 posted on
12/01/2005 8:26:00 AM PST by
dangus
To: dangus
Don't forget the humanistic/atheistic influences in this nation alone which has resulted in the slaughter of 45 million babies.
61 posted on
12/01/2005 8:29:52 AM PST by
Lexinom
To: dangus
Atheist Germans slaughter 20 million Christans and 10 million Jews...
Most Germans during the period 1933-1945 were most certainly not atheists. Even now, in Germany, you're registered by default in a religion and have to go to some lengths to convince them you're an atheist and should not be paying the Church tax.
To: dangus
Atheist Germans slaughter 20 million Christans and 10 million Jews
That's a point for hearty discussion.
The inner circle of the Nazi Party surely had atheist and nominal Christians
that used Christian symbology and some pretty looped reasoning to
get the herds of Germans to go along with them.
And way too many theologians and "church people" either assisted or
stood aside and let Hitler and Co. do as they pleased.
IIRC, the Christian element that did go along happily with Hitler
followed something called "Positive Christianity". All you need to
do is look at a fair number of Nazi posters that use Christian symbolism
that apparently motivated a lot of the German foot soldiers of WWII.
At the same time, the committed Christians that risked life and limb
to oppose the Nazis does get relatively poor coverage, e.g., Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
And, IIRC, the largest single grave of Catholic priests in the world
is at one of the concentration camps. They paid the price for
not giving in to Hitler's vision.
103 posted on
12/01/2005 12:32:48 PM PST by
VOA
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