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Originally Posted by bcb
Don't be silly.
It's been regarded time and again that the Nazi's didn't promote Christianity. But if they did, it wasn't anything mainstream.
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A popular image of the Nazis is that they were fundamentally anti-Christian while devout Christians were anti-Nazi. The truth is that German Christians supported the Nazis because they believed that Adolf Hitler was a gift to the German people from God. German Christianity was a divinely sanctioned religious movement which combined Christian doctrine and German character in a unique and desirable manner: True Christianity was German and True German-ness was Christian.
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http://atheism.about.com/od/adolfhit...iChristian.htm
Racism amongst religion is as long as history, and anti-antisemitism amongst Catholics, Christians and Muslims is to this day evident.
Nazi Germany was a Christian/Catholic nation which supported, not surprisingly a theocratic type following of a leader 'sent from God' and the ground work was done by people of faith, the ground work of extermination.
You can't pretend that all bad things happen because of extremism in religion, even if the moderates aren't actively participating; they are not openly and aggressively fighting against that behavior.