[aristeides]

I feel obliged to point out that any Christian support for the Nazis out of anti-Communism was fundamentally mistaken. Nazism was as anti-Christian as Communism, implicitly, and that implicit hostility was already becoming apparent in World War II, and would have become an obvious reality had Germany won the war.

[Marduk]

"I feel obliged to point out that any Christian support for the Nazis out of anti-Communism was fundamentally mistaken. Nazism was as anti-Christian as Communism, implicitly, and that implicit hostility was already becoming apparent in World War II, and would have become an obvious reality had Germany won the war."

How so? It was the Communists, not the Nazis that razed churches to the ground and imposed atheism. The Pope approved the Nazi invasion of the atheistic USSR and refused to declare the Allied war on Germany a "just war". To this day there is massive persecution of Christianity in the Liberal Democracies, such as the USA.

[LarryLied]

I feel obliged to point out that any Christian support for the Nazis out of anti-Communism was fundamentally mistaken.

It sure was. The Old Guard in Germany thought they could use Hitler to put down the communist threat and at the same time contain him. As you know, they were mistaken.