The Holocaust was Christians… killing non-christians for being different. Also btw I'm a Christian, I just like calling out old christianity (not traditional christianity) for it's prejudices which a LOT of Christians still withhold today
How so? It’s not like Hitler was Christian
He was. It's not widely known because he considered party ideology more important than religion, but he was indeed a Christian (and he blamed the Jews for everything from murdering Jesus to destroyinh the country)
Honestly since I have religious trauma around Christianity I’ll respect the nice people so long as they don’t try to convert me but I won’t tolerate too much preachiness and I literally just,,,, don’t know what my faith is because I can totally get behind a higher power I just think that if I had the patience for Buddhism (as in, I am a very impatient person, nothing is wrong with Buddhism.) I’d like it a lot better.
I,,, just wanna say that the Holocaust was not really religiously motivated?? I'd Really like to see sources for that, please, because I have literally never heard any whisper of that being the cast. Yeah sure, Hitler was Christian, aight, I can buy that I suppose (didn't Act it but whatevs) (do wanna clarify that I am an atheist(?) bisexual witch, not a Christian so that's not where this is coming from) but I cannot buy that the Holocaust was religiously motivated or happened because of Christianity. That's the same claim that ISIS and the Taliban is happening,,, just because they're Muslims, when that obviously is not correct, y'know? ANYWAYS i wanna see sources please :)
Well I’m not saying you’re wrong, it feels like this chat has been derailed and now I’m here just to watch the chaos.
I didn't say the Holocaust was religiously motivated on the part of christianity, I did however say that if was used for spreading Nazi propaganda and ideologies just like the modern Taliban. Also, there's no single way to "act" Christian. Religion is an identity and anybody who prays to the Christian God, is Christian. Just like Muslims, anyone who prays to the Muslim God is a Muslim. Doesn't necessarily mean inherent good or evil. My point was just that what the Taliban is doing today, many Christians and Christian countries have done before.
@Icefire_the_always_exhausted Well one of my main sources is The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity by Richard Steigmann, and many people who knew him personally (Direct sources that you can find in many different articles) knew he went to churches and believed Jesus was a man to be honored, although he did hate churches and protestants (which made sense because they were calling him out). From any standpoint, people saw Hitler was a Christian, whether they believed he was a heretic or not (which he most definitely was.)
Germans saw him as a pillar of Christianity while the English saw him as a plague upon their religion (But they weren't much better)
I see what you're saying, and I get the point you're making. However, irregardless of whether or not Hitler believed in Jesus and all of that, to lump the Holocaust in with the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades feels wrong, because it was not religiously motivated. If something is not primarily religiously motivated it cannot and should not be lumped into the same category as things that are. I would even say the same for Colonization and Slavery; while neither was a good thing, neither was religiously motivated. The Bible was used, yes, in some cases, to excuse it, but they were not motivated by religion, they were motivated by trade and merchants and the desire for cheap labor
I didn't say it was motivated by Christianity, I said it was done by Christians. Big difference. And all of those things were done by Christians.
By WHITE Christians specifically. My point is, modern Christianity, especially in a white perspective, DOES benefit the cishet white man, BECAUSE of its history in oppression. It also can harm POC and LGBT communities in many ways, like how the last Native American Residential school was closed while my parents were alive.
Yes, that's true, and I do understand the difference. However, much of European history was committed by Christians, simply because of how prevalent the religion was throughout Europe (And still is). And so it kind of rubs me the wrong way when it's all lumped together and pinned on Christians, because it feels like an oversimplification (my apologies I am a massive history nerd). And so yes, Christians committed like, most of the awful things that have happened in the past 500, 1000 years. Christianity has done some shitty things that can be blamed on them, for sure. Conversion therapy, the crusades, the fucking Inquisition, homophobia (literally can be blamed on Christians lmao), and just,,,, a lot of bad things like that. However, just because something was committed by a Christian is not a reason, in my mind, to hold it against the religion? Yeah, White Christians have murdered and raped and destroyed for centuries, but to boil all of the varying influences down to "Well they were Christian, so Christianity and Christians = bad" is an oversimplification and just a bad take, imho. Am I making sense? Or have I simply misunderstood what you were saying?
(also I do want to note that I'm not like,,, shitting on you or your opinions at all!! I simply like to debate and I'm doing my best to be respectful while doing so)
By WHITE Christians specifically. My point is, modern Christianity, especially in a white perspective, DOES benefit the cishet white man, BECAUSE of its history in oppression. It also can harm POC and LGBT communities in many ways, like how the last Native American Residential school was closed while my parents were alive.
definitely definitely definitely I completely agree with that point, and I don't disagree about that at all
No, you make sense, and like I said, I don't think christianity and christians are inherently bad, I think christians who don't acknowledge their history and hypocrisy are bad.
Yes precisely, yes. Do you see why I have a problem, though, with them all being lumped into the same category? Yes they were committed by white Christians, but they don't necessarily belong in the same category?
Well, that IS the category. I'm not saying they're that similar, in fact, a lot weren't similar at all, but the category I was alluding to was just "atrocities committed by white christians".
Calm down queens I wasn’t trying to start discourse. Look, both of what you guys are saying has merit but I think it best to say… perhaps chill?
Yes, it's a category all of them can fit under, sure, but it is far from the most relevant category. Does that make sense? Just because there is correlation does not equal causation. For instance, car sales and autism diagnoses have both been rising. Is there any similarity between the two? Does one drive the other? No. Similarly, Christianity may be a common thread between each of these, but it did not necessarily drive each of these (again, except for the Crusades and Inquisition. Those were driven by white Christians lmao). Yes, they all fit within the category, but it's not quite relevant? And it is not direct correlation
Calm down queens I wasn’t trying to start discourse. Look, both of what you guys are saying has merit but I think it best to say… perhaps chill?
Skdbdhhs sorry Orion, not trying to start a fight, I just,,,,, care deeply about this and idk exactly why, I just do
I wasn't trying to fight either ashahdghss I just wanted a healthy debate, which @Icefire_the_always_exhausted was very good at. Thanks! and sorry!
No problem my dudes, just seemed to be getting a teeny bit heated was all. You’re good!
I've been eating popcorn and watching this go down
I think you both brought up good points though ^^
Lmao thanks, Reed
considering that communism is arguably the greatest threat to a peoples collective freedom, I believe that it should remain The scornful stain on humanity that it is…
equality achieved only at the point of a sword, or the stroke of a pen, is not true equality.
objectively every communist government in history has had to use violence and repression to keep everything from going to hell. Communism is the single greatest threat to the freedom of a sovereign people across history.