As for the millions of German people who accepted and supported the Third Reich, they were only the products of their history (Mosse 9). The ferocity of the racism and anti-Semitism that existed in pre-Nazi Germany was sustained by the nature of the German Volkish beliefs. These views had been held by many Germans well before the Third Reich began; they permitted its existence. But the actions of the Reich, the aggressive war of Germany against the people of Europe, was instigated by the political outcomes of the First World War and the fate of the Weimar Republic, and would not have come about with the Volkish and racist sentiments alone.
"Volk" beliefs were themselves integral in German Christianity and in the predominant strains of regional protestantism ("Christian faith is a heroic, manly thing. God speaks in blood and Volk a more powerful language than He does in the idea of humanity." -Joachim Hossenfelder, Bishop of Brandenburg). When coupled with the Church's historical antisemitism (as neatly encapsulated in the writings of Luther), the two formed fertile ground for the antisemitic propaganda of the Nazi party.
This toxic combination of Church and culture is not at all dissimilar to the toxic combination of Mosque and culture being manipulated by propagandists in the Middle East today.
Hence my questions: "[Do] you mean the Germany of 70 years ago? The Germany whose population at the time was manipulated by antisemitic propaganda that appealed to their protestant heritage, much like the middle eastern population today is being manipulated by antisemitic propaganda that appeals to their Islamic heritage? That Germany?"
So, perhaps we can cut to the chase. Exactly what in my post do you disagree with and why?
“Who is the threat today? The western societies that have accepted the reality of rational scientific investigation? Or the middle eastern societies that are mired in the mythological mumbo-jumbo of creationism?”
Exactly how is creationism driving middle eastern crazies? Was it creationism that produced two world wars? or did they arise amongst those claiming, “rational scientific
investigation”?
The biggest threat to Western society today is the decline of moral clarity into an amoral materialist view of human life.