Equating Christianity with Nazism is bad taste and shows a warped picture of history.
I guess this is an attempt to counter slurs by Christians saying Hitler was an atheist or whatever.
Still, this meme not only lowers you to the level of these Christians, but also to the level of Nazi propaganda.
Pointing out the religious environment that Nazism grew in does not lower one to the level of Nazis you delusional sack of fuck.
If Nazism grew in a Christian monoculture, where did all the Jews come from?
For the sake of debate, please refrain from personal attacks. We don’t have to agree, but can we do so in a civil manner?
I get your point: Assuming Nazi Germany was nothing but Christian, the picture would be correct.
But that was not the case. Some were even atheists! And some Christians were some of the fiercest resistance fighters.
I also think it’s dishonest to reduce the picture to just that. It’s also an example of connecting your political enemy to some monstrosity in an undifferentiated way, just like the Nazis did.
Still, this meme not only lowers you to the level of these Christians, but also to the level of Nazi propaganda.
If you want civil discussion this is not how you get it.
The majority of Germans were Christian, the official state religion was Christianity and it was recently revealed the Vatican was aware of the Holocaust well before the Allies were.
Nazis were Christians. Christians supported Nazis from the highest levels of the Church.
Any attempt to say otherwise is to whitewash the Catholic Church’s involvement and is unacceptable.
Who puts out Nazi propaganda? Who would you be equivalent to if your message is on the level of Nazi propaganda?
I don’t think that is true.
It almost certainly is, but the link between Nazism and Christianity is not as explicit as the meme would like you to believe.
There are many, many, propaganda pieces that prove otherwise, starting with the co-opting of the Iron Cross, not to mention all the early Nazi propaganda pamphlets, regardless of what the weirdo fringe of the Thule society wanted once they were in power.
That said, it’s not like the meme is saying it wouldn’t be the same shit in an alternate timeline where Martel lost at Tours, or whatever, just a reminder that most “Christians” view it solely as a tribal identity and not a moral philosophy.
“Christian”
You forgot the quotes. If they’d actually read the New Testament and followed Christ’s teachings, they wouldn’t be waving those flags.
Atheists claiming the moral high ground?
Christian Hitler and followers are pitiful when compared to mighty Atheist Mao Zedong’s achievements.
Mao’s failures were issues of idiocy and incompetence, not wanting to exterminate groups of people he didn’t like based on their race. If mao was more competent he wouldn’t have been as fucking awful (though still quite bad). If Hitler was more competent we’d have even more victims of the Holocaust.
These aren’t comparable.
I was about to question this picture, because, depending on the time it was taken, it might as well been very likely, that these children were raised as nazis in nazi Germany and not have been Christians at any point in their life. . Well the reverse image search told me it’s from a nazis rally in 1930… Wow. I’d still say, that this is not a good atheist meme. It’d go down better with their parents, waving flags at the same rally.
The Germans didn’t suddenly stop going to church and baptising their children when Hitler gained power.
