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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Anti semetism is utterly rooted in Christianities belief that the Jews were the Christ killers, that the nazis were less religeous doesn't alter the fact they were, so to speak, standing on the shoulders of a thousand years of church sponsored anti semetism. Martin Luther was heavily anti Semitic in his older years.
Without the churches history of anti semetism there would have been no holocaust
And while the pope may not have been Hitlers Pope he was defiantly Mussolini's pope.
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No one disputes that. To call the Nazis a "Christian organization" is misleading though. They are an ethnic based nationalist organization that existed within a pre-existing Christian culture. They did exploit pre-existing Anti-Semitism in a Christian nation, but they largely sought to decrease the influence of Christianity (and the powerful Christian institutions) and replace it with nationalism. The tenants of Christianity were not nearly as important as those of racism and nationalism to the Nazis. This differs from ISIS, who are largely blind to race/nationality (although white western converts don't always ultimately have a good time), and instead focus on religion as the core of their belief system.
Although Jews may have been one of the greater victims of the Nazis, people also forget that groups like the Romas, handicapped, etc.. suffered similar fates and to a lesser extent so did Poles and Slavs.