I can't believe you guys are still talking about Hitler and Nazis being Christian or not...Just drop it for the sake of this thread. Please. It's almost totally irrelevant. Nomatter how you guys try to frame it, you are really going back on forth on:
IF
1. Nazis = Evil
2. Nazis = Christians
THEN
3. Christians = Evil
or other variations thereof
Give me a break! Both tremendous good and tremendous suffering have come from people(s) of many religious backgrounds who may or may not have done things in the name of religion or using it as a justification of their actions. In most cases, religion was often simply a part of the background of a society and not relevant to the actual political actions that took place.
Religion was almost entirely absent as a motivating factor from the major political and economic conflicts (aka war) in the western world after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Religion was not the cause of the French Revolution. The persecution of the clergy during the Reign of Terror was not due to religion itself but rather it's oppressive role in the ancien regime and massive ownership of wealth & power. Religion had very little to do with Nazi Germany. Religion had very little to do with Communism. The motivating factors for all of these were economic.
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