Christofascist MAGA Nazis love to pretend they’re morally superior because they’re Christians.
They have no idea that Christianity was militant until WW2. European history is 2000 years of Christians slaughtering other Christians and non-Christians.
That’s a typical Nazi uniform belt buckle, engraved with the words "God is with us."
Ever since WW2, American Christofascists have been trying to erase from history that the Nazis were Christians and the Holocaust was yet another Christian atrocity in a long list of Christian atrocities.
Christianity was militant until WW2. European history is 2000 years of Christians slaughtering other Christians and non-Christians.
In the Dark Ages, torture dungeons were very common. And the people who brutally tortured infidels thought of themselves as good Christians. Food for thought.
The 30 year war was Christians slaughtering Christians.
The 80 year war was Christians slaughtering Christians.
The 100 year war was Christians slaughtering Christians.
The British Empire, who killed millions around the globe before WW2, were Christians too.
The American colonists, who enslaved Africans and exterminated the Native Americans, were Christians:
The shocking savagery of America’s early history
Genocide of indigenous peoples: When European settlers arrived in the Americas, historians estimate there were over 10 million Native Americans living there. By 1900, their estimated population was under 300,000.
How Christian slaveholders used the Bible to justify slavery
Why did so many Christians support slavery? Key reasons advanced by southern church leaders.
Southern Baptist seminary confronts history of slaveholding and 'deep racism'
After German Nazi Christians took Christian thirst for infidel blood to the extreme in WW2, European Christians finally had enough of their own savagery, and shifted focus from "kill the infidels" to "love thy neighbor."
But Christians in many other parts of the world are still genocidal maniacs.
The civil war in Rwanda was Christians slaughtering Christians:
Accepting the Unacceptable: Christian Churches and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
The genocide occurred in one of Africa’s most Christian regions, with ninety per cent of the population identifying itself as part of a Catholic, Protestant, or Seventh-day Adventist Church as of 1991.
Inevitably, in the aftershock of the genocide, many questioned the role, and attempted to fathom the association of Rwanda’s Churches with the genocide.
And the fascist Russians slaughtering Ukrainians are Christians slaughtering Christians:
Russia is persecuting Christian churches in occupied Ukraine
Russia’s religious persecution and misinformation in Ukraine
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Russia killing and torturing Ukrainian Christians, not 'protecting' them.
Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of Ukraine. Men are often the victims: a significant number of documented crimes of sexual violence by Russian troops, including forced nudity, genital mutilation, rape and forced exposure to sexual violence against others, were being carried out against men.
Russians committing rape, widespread torture against Ukrainians
Why the Russian Orthodox Church supports the war in Ukraine
Weird that Christofascist MAGA Nazis who cheer for Russia’s fascist invasion of Ukraine never mention all the raping, or the fact that Ukraine is Christian, huh?
There is a lot more Christofascist MAGA Nazis don’t want you to know.
They’re not just trying to hide the history of Christian slavery in America from students.
Denying that the German Nazis were Christians is deliberate disinformation by American Christians who don't want to admit that the Holocaust was yet another Christian atrocity in a long line of Christian atrocities.
There are still church bells in German churches with Nazi inscriptions:
The Evangelical Church in Central Germany surveyed its belfries last year, and confirmed that there were still six bells with Nazi inscriptions in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt.
It told the Church newspaper Glaube+Heimat that it would not reveal their location for fear of encouraging "far-right bell tourism" - the practice of neo-Nazis visiting churches to celebrate the mementos of Hitler's regime.
The Nazis were Christians
The population of Germany in 1933 was around 60 million. Almost all Germans were Christian, belonging either to the Roman Catholic (ca. 20 million members) or the Protestant (ca. 40 million members) churches. The Jewish community in Germany in 1933 was less than 1% of the total population of the country.
How did Christians and their churches in Germany respond to the Nazi regime and its laws, particularly to the persecution of the Jews?
The racialized anti-Jewish Nazi ideology converged with antisemitism that was historically widespread throughout Europe at the time and had deep roots in Christian history. For all too many Christians, traditional interpretations of religious scriptures seemed to support these prejudices.
In other words, the Nazis slaughtered Jews because they were Christians, not in spite of it.
Until WW2, European Christians slaughtered infidels for not being Christians.
Hitler followed Martin Luther's instructions on how to deal with Jews for not converting to Christianity.
Hitler didn't come up with the Holocaust. Martin Luther did, hundreds of years before Hitler was even born.
In 1543, Martin Luther proposed the Holocaust in his book "The Jews and their lies."
Religious views of Adolf Hitler
"We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. In fact our movement is Christian."
-Adolf Hitler
"We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."
-Adolf Hitler
Martin Luther paved the way for the Holocaust
A shocking part of Luther’s legacy seems to have slipped though the cracks of the collective memory along the way: his vicious Anti-Semitism and its horrific consequences for the Jews and for Germany itself.
At first, Luther was convinced that the Jews would accept the truth of Christianity and convert. Since they did not, he later followed in his treatise, On the Jews and Their Lies (1543), that “their synagogues or schools“ should be “set fire to … in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christian.“
He advised that the houses of Jews be “razed and destroyed,“ their “prayer books and Talmudic writings“ and “all cash and treasure of silver and gold“ be taken from them.
They should receive “no mercy or kindness,“ given “no legal protection,“ and “drafted into forced labor or expelled.“
He also claimed that Christians who “did not slay them were at fault.“
Luther thus laid part of the basic anti-Semitic groundwork for his Nazi descendants to carry out the Shoah. Indeed, Julius Streicher, editor of the anti-Semitic Nazi magazine “Der Stürmer,“ commented during the Nürnberg tribunal that Martin Luther could have been tried in his place.”
The picture below is a Nazi propaganda poster idolizing Martin Luther:
The text says "Hitler's fight and Luther's teachings are the German people's strong defense."
Nazi propaganda claimed that Jews were attacking Germany, not the other way around.
Fascists use lies as a weapon, to switch the roles of victim and attacker.
Just like Trump. He uses Hitler’s fascist propaganda lies every day.
This thing called "Christianity" has track record of covering up their depravity with the perversion of truth, logic, ethics and human rights, making an abomination of them. Religion seems to be a cancer for any society that aspires to be a liberal democracy.
Interesting history compilation. I am a Christian, but your history lesson is exactly WHY church and state need to remain separate. It’s why the “Founders” didn’t want a state church. Hundreds of years of war over who was worshipping God correctly! I stood on a tower in France that over a thousand Huguenots were thrown to their deaths because they denied that a priest had to talk to God for them. I have had a Near Death Experience and seen Heaven. There is a life after this one - but I just felt love and acceptance. There is no hate. There is no “forced religion”. What the “Christian Nationals” propose is wrong. People who commit horrendous acts in the name of “their” faith are following false prophets and false teachers. Render onto Caesar what is Caesar’s and onto God what is God’s. Your faith is between you and God. Keep the “state” out of it.