Germany was 96% Christian when they started WW2 and killed the Jews. Why did they do those things?

Question

What good is such a religion?

According to an encylopedia Germany was 51% Lutheran, and 45% Roman Catholic at the time.

Answer 1

Christians put Bush into power (with help from some underhanded stunts by the Republican party in Ohio, Florida, etc.)

Christians are programmed to be sheep.

Answer 2

Christian teaching in the Bible, in essence said that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ. The Christian Europeans viewed Jews as the worst species of heretics and attributed all social ills to their presence. If you can understand the feeling of belonging to a group, it is very hard for an individual to stand up against the majority even when their wrong. There is no good in religion. It have caused the death of millions of innocent people for thousands of years. It's very easy to say I don't know, instead of making up some silly story of why. The problem is that thousands of people kill one another using these silly faith based stories as their reason. Imagine a world without religion. Think of all the billions of dollars spent on a bunch of mystical ideas. This money could be spent to help mankind instead of throwing it down a sink hole. Fred S

Answer 3

Christian??

are you forgetting King "Christian" of Denmark who had all his people wear the 6 pointed stars of David in defiance of the Natzis and saved the Jews for a time

There is a large difference between being a follower of Christ and being a cultural Christian in name only

in truth you are not exactly right

you were seeing not a movement from Christianity pur se but the results of the philosophers like Neitche who felt God was a joke and mercy was a weakness... hardly a Christian view
Germany was in fact considerably influenced by the extreme liberal views of Biblical Critisism that undermined the sciptures in the years preceeding this and to some degree the weakening of the church though the liberal textual critisism ran its course
in making the church unable to call evil by its right name

you are in part seeing the fruits of secularism, and surprizingly, in part very secular ideas proposed in the United States by the American Psych Assoc to eliminate some disabled were picked up by Natizis... so you are seeing the consequence of secular ideas being caried to their conclusion... additionally you were seeing social Darwinisn carrying Darwinism to its conclusion
additionalyy there was some amount of disdain for the Jews for financiel envy and some because Hilter dabbled in Occultic things... none of these are Chrstian views

some leaders in Germany commit suicide when they saw the concentration camps... and we have to conclude to some level the general public knew and should have done more and to some level did not ocmpletely know what was going on

I agree that it was an opportunity for Christians to speak up, but God does not call us to a fair fight and often are the discenting minority

you may have seen a minority of Christians protesting like Karl Barth or come hiding Jews as in folk like "The Hiding Pace" but people going through the motions and in name only are not displaying the fruit of the kingdom and likely do not have saving faith. Some like Corrie Ten Boom and her family nobly hid the Jews and most of her family died in camps.

and to some extent Chrstians are not perfect, they are under construction and forgiven

Answer 4

The Nazi party brainwashed it's military and that was led by Hitler. Many Germans did NOT support this movement. Meantime for the idiot on here a Catholic IS a Christian stupid.

Answer 5

You did what you were told or you died, it was all about self perservation, and some Christian shared the same fate a the Jews did for not going along with it. Plus, majority of the population had no idea about what Hilter's plans were.

Answer 6

The Christian Witnesses of Jehovah were persecuted, tortured, imprisoned and killed for not supporting Hitler.

All they had to do was sign a paper renouncing their faith and they could have been released from that. Very few of these courageous Christians comprimised by signing.

Answer 7

God i lose interest of the comparable previous lame examples for Christian bashing. a minimum of this one is trouble-free to refute. basic--because of fact Hitler, and just about all of the Nazis, and various the human beings available calling themselves "chrisitan", are no longer actual Christians! "no longer each guy that calleth me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the dominion of heaven" -Jesus

Answer 8

this is not my view , but its interesting.




I don't see much future for the Americans. Everything about the behavior of the American society reveals that it's half judaized, and the other half is negrified. How can one expect a state like that to hold together?
- - - Adolf Hitler

Answer 9

Envy
Contempt

Hitler was personally a Catholic, but not a Christian.

Answer 10

They were led astray by a very charismatic leader

By the way, not all of Germany supported the nazi party