lead directly to the Holocaust? Hitler was raised a Catholic, claimed to be doing God's work and got a sympathetic hearing from a predominately Christian Germany.
2006-12-22 19:35:08 · 8 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/pius.html
2006-12-22 20:29:58 · update #1
you are absolutely correct on all points.
in fact, the catholic church knew all along what was going on inside germany during nazi rule. the mass genocide. they knew about all of it, and the numbers of people being slaughtered, but because the victims were almost all non-catholics, they kept silent about it and let it continue, saying nothing to the rest of the world about it.
2006-12-22 19:39:24 · answer #1 · answered by Jeebus is my Rectum 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Before the Jews were rounded up, other socially undesirables became the first victims of the holocaust. Homosexuals, blacks, gypsies, mentally retarded, physically handicapped, convicted murderers and rapists, and so on were first slaughtered. Jews themselves didn't step up to stop this.
By the time the Nazis started in on the Jews, the killing machine was in place, automated, and fine-tuned.
To say that all the non-Jewish German people were anti-Semitic and agreed with the holocaust is absurd. What would you do if an SS soldier was pointing a loaded gun at your head demanding to know where your Jewish friends were hiding? Would you sacrifice your own life for a friend, neighbor, co-worker, or acquaintance? Some did. Most did not.
2006-12-22 19:53:57 · answer #2 · answered by bikerchickjill 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is man's choice to complicate and con-volute what God intended to be simple. Catholicism, Baptists, Methodists, Seventh Day Adventists...Whomever; they all are religious denominations created by man and are therefore subject to the same corruption inherent to anything of mortal creation.
This doesn't mean one should condemn a particular sect of Christianity based on the mistakes or evils that persons involved within that sect have committed. It merely illustrates that the only perfect church is the church of the heart and your relationship with God must first and foremost begin within.
2006-12-22 19:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by region91footballer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PLEASE do not be so ignorant of God's Word so as to confuse catholicism with Biblical Christianity. A true believer knows that the Jews are God's chosen people!
2006-12-22 19:42:57 · answer #4 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
History seems to agree with what you state. Seems many atrocities have been committed in the name of God by fanatics as you well know. Nothing quite like religion is there?
2006-12-22 19:42:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well that's news to me. I think you are right on the money!
2006-12-22 19:45:47 · answer #6 · answered by Kaka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But not everyone is catholic!
2006-12-22 19:40:53 · answer #7 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mr. Rectum, please educate yourself on the role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust.
2006-12-22 20:05:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋