re: #702 researchok

It’s lovely. I especially liked this part:

For Hitler, it was the notion of the uber mensch, the ‘pure’ Aryan. For the Arabs, it is a romantic vision of a new Caliphate, one where Arabs and Muslims are perceived as righteous leaders, scholars, recognized and catered to by others. These tactics have proved to be very successful. Arab world political and religious leaders keep the chains of tyranny tightly bound- and Arabs, like the German volk, look adoringly at their leaders and say, ‘Thank You.’

It’s really a fair, toughtful, and nuanced critique. Since we’ve entered Godwin territory, I have found a very similar article, which I supposed could be titled “Why I hate Christianity”.
nobeliefs.com

Hitler’s anti-Semitism grew out of his Christian education. Christian Austria and Germany in his time took for granted the belief that Jews held an inferior status to Aryan Christians. Jewish hatred did not spring from Hitler, it came from the preaching of Catholic priests and Protestant ministers throughout Germany for hundreds of years. The Protestant leader, Martin Luther, himself, held a livid hatred for Jews and their Jewish religion. In his book, “On the Jews and their Lies,” Luther set the standard for Jewish hatred in Protestant Germany up until World War II. Hitler expressed a great admiration for Martin Luther.

Hitler did not have to parade his belief in God, as so many American Christians do now. Nor did he have to justify his Godly belief against an Atheist movement. He took his beliefs for granted just as most Germans did at that time. His thrust aimed at politics, not religion. But through his political and religious reasoning he established in 1933, a German Reich Christian Church, uniting the Protestant churches to instill faith in a national German Christianity.

Future generations should remember that Adolph Hitler could not have come into power without the support of the Protestant and Catholic churches and the German Christian populace.

Come on — do we have to have this discussion again and again? I’ve seen your 678, but the article you have linke engages in the same kind of reasoning — if some Muslims do it, Islam is to blame.