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5thhorseman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:51 am
May as well replace "Christian" with "BLM".
Yep - it's always the case, isn't it. Point out the faults of the few to tarnish the whole (Doc's whole game plan in this thread ).
Add in the fact that it's impossible to hold up to a lifetime of Christian ideals, and everyone is set up for failure. (Yes, faith vs works, etc etc...) To me it seems many would rather just say "Fuck it" and align themselves with a cause and not worry about the details of what's actually required.
"I'm a Christian, and you should be too! If not, I'll burn you alive"
"I'm with BLM and I deserve these Nikes I see in the window"
Per wrote: ↑Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:20 pm
the church had persecuted the ”perfidious Jews” since the Middle Ages. The Holocaust was just the logical conclusion.
Now cut that out.
In Hitler, God, and the Bible, international evangelist and best-selling author Ray Comfort exposes Adolf Hitler's theology and abuse of religion as a means to seize political power and ultimately instigate World War II and genocide. This fascinating study mines the depths of Hitler's beliefs and convincingly argues that without Hitler's misuse of Christianity the Third Reich would not have had its legendary rise, resulting in the deaths of more than six million Jews. Highlighting Hitler's youth, his influences, and his path to seducing a nation, Hitler, God, and the Bible is a fresh, stinging reminder of the power of the cross and how its misuse led to the Final Solution.
So yeah... one could say the beliefs of self-professing "atheists"... "culminated" in the Holocaust.
Problem with that theory is more than 90% of Germans at the time self identified as Christians... and many of the rest ended up in the camps.
But yeah, Adolf was good at twisting things.
The 90% were controlled by the 10% (the 10% being Völkisch Darwinists).
And let's not forget that 90% of the Allies were also Christian.
So one could say Christian love of the Jews culminated in the end of the Holocaust and the destruction of Hitler.
And then those Christians restored the nation of Israel...
Yeah, well the völkisch neo-paganism at its peak had some 200,000 followers, or 0.3% of the German population (after the annexation of Sudetenland and Austria). Sure, a handful of important nazi leaders, eg Göring, subscribed to this, but even Hitler thought it was a foolish idea.
In a 1939 census, 54% of Germans were listed as protestants, 40% as catholics, 3.5% as ”believing in God”, 1.5 as atheists and 1% as ”other”. Jews were roughly 0.6% of the population and probably ended up spread over all these categories, as many of them had converted to Christianity, but the nazis thought of Jews as a race rather than a religion.
Whatever you do, always give 100 %!
Except when donating blood.
Per wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:28 pm
Yeah, well the völkisch neo-paganism at its peak had some 200,000 followers, or 0.3% of the German population (after the annexation of Sudetenland and Austria). Sure, a handful of important nazi leaders, eg Göring, subscribed to this, but even Hitler thought it was a foolish idea.
The neo-pagans were only a small subset of the Volkisch Movement...
I was referring to the much larger occultist racist Darwinist Thule Society, which Herr Hitler obviously embraced.
(Göring too)
Out of the Volkisch Movement came the Thule Society... out of the Thule Society came the Nazi Party.
So one could say the Volkisch Movement at its peak had some 85 million followers, or 100% of the German population.
Per wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:28 pm
... but the nazis thought of Jews as a race rather than a religion.
Yup, Darwinism culminated in the Holocaust.
Thank God the (90% Christian) Allies stepped up to stop the satanic leftist Nazis...
Mëds wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:02 pm
Identifying as Christian and being Christian can be entirely different things.
This is how Christians avoid responsibility for their faith. "Oh, so and so did something evil. Well, they're not TRUE Christians."
The true Christians do no wrong. It's all the fake Christians giving us a bad name.
May as well replace "Christian" with "BLM".
So you believe that one person should be held accountable for the actions of another person?
I believe a faith should be judged by the actions (or inactions) of its believers.
Hmmm.....and I think a faith should be judged by its founding doctrine.
Is every scientist a murderer (or condoning of) then? Because it's science that has allowed advances in every area, and I can't think of one area that hasn't been use for ill intent. Physics gave us the atomic Bomb. Biology and chemistry gave us chemical warfare.....and Covid-19 from the sounds of it.
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