Hitler was well aware of the Pope and the Catholic Church and what they could do. We are taking then a religious war and that.....Hitler did not want to engage in.
Hitler was well aware of the Pope and the Catholic Church and what they could do. We are taking then a religious war and that.....Hitler did not want to engage in.
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well those two you mention and hitler also didnt do all the killing themselves, they had other people carry it out for them. no doubt some of those soldiers were christian even though the leaders weren't. they may have been hiding it from the higher ups. point is its pointless to try to decide who has killed more people atheists or christians. there are good folks and bad on both sides.
Most of those soldiers (save perhaps those actually brought up under the regimes' control) were nominally Christian. So what? They weren't killing in the name of Christ but in the name of a political ideology be it Nazism, communism or whatever. In any case, it is rather pointless which makes me wonder why atheists keep bringing it up.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
ultimately it is the killer that bears the responsibility .. neither religion or lack of it needs to be present for man to hurt man
is it? Doesn't Adolf Eichmann, for example, bear as much responsibility as those who did the actual killing? Wasn't the whole regime guilty? I agree that human cruelty need not be inspired by either religion or the lack thereof but I also think that religion does provide boundaries. The brutality abnd slaughter of the 20th century was due not to technology but to ideas.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
There's definitely guilt there, from the planning to the carrying out of the orders. No one along that chain is innocent IMO.