You’d think at least they’d have colour photography in Florida by now.
Every Nazi I know - and the internet has acquainted me with many - was Christian.
That doesn't mean Christians are Nazis, but it's not great company to keep..
Nazis specificly shunned the church in order to get prime real estate on indoctrination.
Nazism is a very, very dangerous ideology which can infect all classess and religions (or-lack-there of). None of us are immune to propaganda.
Funny sidefact: One of the first countries to acknowledge the sovereignty of the Third Reich was indeed the Vatican.
When was a sovereignty of the Third Reich in question? Hitler and the NSDAP took power under legal means and then transformed into a dictatorship. They would have been recognized when they came to power.
There's a book about it called Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, and how the church used The Nazis and Holocaust to further their power in Europe
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.
Hitler's primary problem with the Catholic Church is that he wasn't the Pope.
I come from a region of germany with a lot of nazis and you can put almost anyone in that region into 4 categories:
With Christians I mean not every christian, but people who really live that out 100%.
Depending on the region this can have different consequences.
In my region the church helped refugees and at least cares a little bit about the environment.
While this isn't the case everywhere and so on, the Christians are a group seperate to the nazis in my region.
And since there are way too many nazis in my region, I will not make myself the Christians as enemys.
"Not Nazi" has to be enough in these circumstances.
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.
Are you aware that the "Bekennende Kirche" was one of the few Organisations oposed to the nazi regime?
As a Sapphic woman, all I can say is Bring It The F On.
So for the people here who don't know what this is about: Super conservative Christians like to claim that without God, there can be no morals because God told us what's right or wrong. They deny the intrinsic morals we humans have. This image turns that BS argument on it's head.
No it doesn't. All this image is implying is that Christians can be immoral. It says absolutely nothing about the idea that an objective morality needs an external source. This is claimed (incorrectly I would argue) by many atheist philosophers as well, so it's not just "Super conservative Christians" that say it.
If the image was intended to do what you said then it utterly failed.
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.
You should first learn to read. He said nazi PROPAGANDA, fcking moron.
Who puts out Nazi propaganda? Who would you be equivalent to if your message is on the level of Nazi propaganda?
You would/could be anything and your message would still be on the level of nazi propaganda.
The quality of an argument/message is independet from whom it comes from.
If it would depend on whom a message comes from, it would lead to "Argumentum ad hominem"...
PS Initial topic: causation vs correlation! All Nazis ate bread. -> "Eating bread makes you a nazi."
PS2: trying to find a correlation between religion (christianity) and absolute evil(being nazi) is exactly what Nazis did. They said that there is a correlation between being jewish and the cause of all bad things happening.
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.
“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.
