Why do people...?

Question

why do people blame Christians, & God for the reason for holocaust and killing jews? I as a Christian, love everyone, and wouldnt kill anybody. God for one is against that too. For Satan, he is the one whom would try to exterminate the Jewish people. He wanted to get rid of religious people. You may believe Hitler was a christian, but what bible is he reading?

I want opinions bout this, why do you think we get blamed? and why shouldnt we?

Answer 1

I don’t. Some people like to blame atheists (They’ll say Hitler was an atheist, which he wasn’t). Maybe people just need someone to be angry with.

Answer 2

I have not heard of people blaming christians outright but I assume it is because of this....

People always need someone to blame and if they cannot blame the one who is actually to blame they find someone/something else. Hitler was a Christian, how devout, I don't know. Germany is a very Christian country and there was already a predjudice against jews in Germany prior to Hitler's reign. He was an anti-semite but jews were not something that he had planned for a long time to rid Germany of. Hitler had quite a large amount of psychological problems. Growing up he had a full fleged etipus complex and was very fearful of his abusive father who allegidly beat him daily as well as the family dog. He was also the fourth born child but the only one who had survived and his mother codeled him to the point where he began feeling as if he were "superior" but had his father bringing him down at the same time. His mother died not too long before the war. He was distraught. His psychological problems took another turn and he wanted power. The kind of power he never knew as a child growing up. He belonged to a group already, I cannot remember what it was called, and started the Nazis. Seeing as how Germany was already anti-semetic, it was something that would be easy for him to get backing on.

Hitler is too easy to blame for most, and he is dead... so they look into peices of that person/thing to blame. Seeing as how people apparently blame christianity, it is still going strong since the war and the are millions of christians... rather than blaming one person who is dead, they can blame a religion and multitudes of people who will continue to live.... It is a scapegoat...

Answer 3

The Holocaust is batted back and forth like a tennis ball between the atheists and Christians. Hitler was raised a Christian and seemed, sometimes, to really believe that he was doing the work of God. He used that statement to embolden the Nazis to agree wth him, most of them having no idea what he ws doing in those concentration camps. At other times, he was an atheist. Sometimes he hated himself and sometimes he thought he was God.
The only thing we can blame the Holocaust on was an enigmatic crazy man and the bunch of half-starved down-trodden people who followed him. He was a madman, not to be blamed on any particular group. Many Christians helped and hid Jews, many people of other faiths helped Jews. Many atheists helped Jews. The Holocaust was a horrible part of shared human history, there are stories of horrible acts and of great sacrifice and compassion. We all can learn and we all share the responsibility to make sure we don't allow something like that to happen again.

Answer 4

Satan isn't to blame either. It was human being who commit this types of complete atrocities. Even if Satan existed it wasn't him that called millions of people under Hilter, or killed twenty million under Stalin. It was human being who did all of that. They had a choice and they chose to kill what they thought were lesser humans.

I don't blame God for things that go wrong. I don't blame God for all the suffering in the world. We create our own problems, our own pain and suffering. Why should we expect God to bail us out of something of our own making?

I have heard the argument Hitler was a Christian - but I haven't read real concrete proof of this. I always thought he was more agnostic/atheist. But I could be wrong. I mean he did go after Catholics, Christians and Jews, along with Gypsy's and anyone who didn't fit his criteria for physical appearance.

I also think we need to spend less time blaming people or deciding who to blame. That essentially gets us no where. We need to punish those that are found guilty of involvement in atrocities and then move on. We cannot forget the past, nor should we. But we must not let it rule our lives.

Answer 5

Crusades. John Calvin. The Inquisition. The Holocaust (Hitler was a Christian, and much of the German populace supported him). Mussolini. Lutheran princes. Calvinist princes. The Test Act in England (you had to swear that you were an Anglican). If you study history, you will find so many more. Virtually no European leader ever tolerated Jews. Only a few did, like Joseph II of Austria. SO, WE CAN BLAME YOU! Your religion has bred so much ignorance and hate.

Answer 6

Hitler wasn't a Christian at all. He wanted to eliminate Christianity which he thought to be a Jewish imposition on the Aryan race.

Anybody who seriously thinks so has probably been taken in by web sites put up by the "Freethinkers" and pagans who want to defame Christianity. These sites deliberately take quotations out of the context of Hitler's speeches to Christians which were meant to deceive, and they present them as the whole story. Any serious historical research has shown a systematic campaign by the Nazis to suppress the Christian churches. Thousands of Protestant ministers and Catholic priests and nuns went to concentration camps to die for refusing to co-operate with this. Look in any good history of the Third Reich in the index under "churches" or "Christianity" to see that I'm telling you the true story on this. Rutgers University also has a good web site presenting serious historical research into this issue.

After you've done that, ask yourself about the people who feel they must use deceit to defame other people's religion.

Answer 7

As an atheist, I can't recall ever hearing an accusation that Christians and God were responsible for the Holocaust.

Unless you're saying that all Christians are Nazis, in which case I'm pretty sure there's a large number of Christians who will disagree with you.

Answer 8

It was Hitler and his demented and unscientific idea about eugenics that took advantage of a country desperate for direction and committed all that.

I have to agree with Pangel, I have never ever heard anyone blame Christianity or it's followers.

EDIT: Okay, so apparently G-man does, in fact, blame Christians. Wow.

Answer 9

In the garden God created Adam and Eve.
Garden is Gods earth.
Satan,once named Lucifer,was cast out of Heaven onto the realm of the earth-the air,and he was given power to rule there.
Satan/Darth Vader can cause in the flesh certain things to transpire because everything that is earthly/worldly is opposite spirititually,and God is Spirit.
What we see with the eye is outside us where satan is ruling even tho he is a spirit also he is not more powerful than the Spirit God.

There were two trees in the garden,
The tree of Life,
The tree of good and evil.

God said,"Do not eat of the tree of good and evil."
You notice the tree was once good but then became evil because it was defiled by the power of satan.
Had Adam and Eve only eaten of the tree of life all would have been well from the beginning untill forever,but given free will they did eat evil because the father of lies decieved them.

Satan can create inclinations things in the thoughts but he cannot create a spirit being and he is so jealous of that fact that God can that he will do anything within his power to destroy Gods beautiful creation,and the lie is one of them,an inclination.

satan is to this day - decieving the world.
satan killed Adam and Eve by decieving them with the inclination/lie.

What our eyes can see all the pleasures of the garden that was meant to be eternal was defiled by a jealous little spoiled entity that was in fact created with so much splender and authority before pride entered in him, and he turned against the Almighty God creator of all good.
Pride-another inclination/lie.
satan just has to win by killing, BUT, he does not in the end.
Of corse a true christian would not kill,but only those who have been decieved.

It is satan who blames, by decieving the blamers.

Answer 10

Some think that Hitler was a christian, which was true up to about the age of 12!

Answer 11

Because God created Satan. Since Satan is God's creation - and since God is all powerful and all knowing and thus gave Satan the capacity to commit horrendous acts of evil despite knowing that he would do just that - it's his responsibility.

Or it would be if he existed.

Which he doesn't.