What does it say about Christian morals/ethics/gullibility?

Question

that Hitler was able to use religion and the traditional hatred of Jews instilled in Catholics and Protestants to perpetrate the Final Solution?

How was Europe's most Christian nation so easily unhinged from its moral righteousnous?

dze: they *elected* Hitler. did you skip that chapter?

malak: you really shouldn't rely on Raiders of the Lost Ark for your knowledge of history.

Answer 1

Because Germany was in such desperate condition that people would have accepted just any charismatic speaker who offered them hope for prosperity and self-worth. Hitler stroked the people's egos and told them what they wanted to hear at a time when they felt defeated and vulnerable.

And he exploited what you so rightly describe as the "traditional hatred of Jews" to explain all the problems and shift the blame away from the Germans themselves. Rather than accept responsibility for their government and its actions, they came up with a scapegoat.

When inflation is through the ceiling, you have no job, and your children are hungry, it's easy to let yourself be convinced of almost anything.

Answer 2

Despite what the most arguementative theists and stheists believe, Hitlers poisoning German society against the Jews wasn't about religion. If it was, he wouldn't have gone after the gypsies too.

It was an economic and political decision. He told the German people that their lives would get better if they got rid of the Jews and the gypsies. He invoked objective morality (as all Abrahamic Monotheistic religions do) and demonized his opposition through the media (like Faux News does for the Republican Party). The more Jews and gypsies the Germans went after, the more were needed for prison guards and the less economic competition there was in Germany, so in a very morbid and ethically retarded way, the economic life of the average German did improve slightly.

Catholics and other Christians are very easy to persuade through objective morality. The very structure of their ethos is based on their god, the objective manifestation of all that is good, and the devil, the objective manifestation of all that is evil. Good and evil being, in reality, purely subjective terms assigned before the fact by politicians and after the fact by historians. Had Hitler won the war, we would have been learning about how the great noble Hitler defeated the evil American armies and brought peace to the world through the proper application of eugenics.

Answer 3

the population of Germany had no clue! this was actually a documentary film ! they freaked out when they saw what had happened to the Jews in those camps! but I would like to know how so many Christians, atheists, Muslims and Jews today are committing murders ,wars ,atrocities of unspeakable violence, sick and perverted children being victimizes beyond your wildest imagination! or are we going to blame the Christians or Nazi Germany for that as well - always dwelling on the past never looking into the present and God forbid the future!

always just ready to judge and point fingers!

Answer 4

Using people is easy, we all do it ... it's how you use them that determines the state of your soul. He was able to manipulate many people, and used scare tactics to convince others.

I don't know why Christians were so easily won over, but I understand that times had been real hard for them just prior to Hitler's era. Sometimes people who are hungry and cold are easy to lure I guess.

Answer 5

I think it is because people fear what is different from them. It has always been that way. Unfortuantely Hitler was a charismatic speaker that told the people what they wanted to hear and instilled in them the fear of what might happen if they let these "different' people live amongst them. God has granted us the blessing of a MIND along with our spirit, when us as human beings start believing eveything that is spoonfed to us by anyone on a pulprit, we are in deep trouble.

Answer 6

Because Germany had been shat upon by the Treaty of Versaille, they needed someone to answer the questions for them and this man was "it" to them. It probably wouldn't matter what religion a group of people was that had this type of punishment, they were pissed, and in every religion, people get pissed.

Answer 7

The Treaty of Versailles was the catalyst for Hitler's rise in a post WW-I Germany.

Answer 8

Hitler was an occultist, not a christian, though he may have said he was christian, he obviously wasn't. Nazi's used hate and jealousy to get rid of the Jews, not any belief in Christ. He also used fear, to not go along with the Nazi's got them very dead, so it became a "them or us" situation.

Answer 9

that war, like most wars, was about money, not religion. Germany was destitute after WW1 and Hitler decided to rebuild the economy by attacking the Jews, who had all the money

Answer 10

Hitler might have claimed to be a Christian and said he did things in the name of his religious beliefs but he was not a true Christian nor did Christians approve of his actions.