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Ok so if there werent any religion they would be motivated by something else...just like Hitler was motivated by a concept of a master race
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It's funny you should bring that up. While Hitler may have been motivated by an extreme form of eugenics, the millions of Germans who supported him didn't all share that same view. Hitler wasn't the one who personally committed the atrocities of the Holocaust; that great dishonour fell to the masses of willing Germans who carried out his dirty work. And why were Hitler's executioners so willing (to paraphrase a book title)? Because of hundreds of years of anti-Semetic attitudes pervasive amongst Christians (the dominant religion of Germany in the 1930s and 40s) who justified their hatred of Jews because they "killed Christ"*
*which, of course, ignores the whole point that Jesus himself
wanted to be killed, if Christian dogma is to be believed, but nobody can ever say that religious fanatics are a particularly sensible group.