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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I don't think that anyone is suggesting that the church INVENTED antisemitism. The accusation is about complicity. And there are many good examples of it. As noted in the video above, it was Church doctrine that the Jews were responsible for deicide until 1964. |
Ok, but that church doctrine has very little to do with Nazism. Nazism was far more influenced by the secular notions of the day that were concerned with the social, cultural, economic, and the pseudo-scientific theories of racial evolution and genetics that permeated through. Deicide was far from the top of the list. Blaming religion for everything is a cop out for the rest of society to admit non-religious elements played just as big of a role, whether it be the Holocaust or residential schools. I guess it must be nice to absolve ones self of the inherited shame by compartmentalizing the guilt.
You see this all over the world. The Israel-Palestine situation, terrorism in former colonies (ME and Africa), etc... have non-religious roots, but for the intellectually lazy, it's easy to just blame religion.
Even things in history that seemed obviously about religion, like the Crusades, were at least as much about trade routes, resources, military alliances, and realm expansion, as they were about religion.