Have christians forgotten the Holocaust? Hitler was christian and so were many other bad people....?
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So yet again kero_bearus you are proving how small-minded you are.  Judging an entire people group by one person, now that is awfully mature of you.  I could think the same about Germans - Hitler was a German and he did all those bad things, therefore all Germans are exactly like Hitler.  It's a pretty bad argument.  If you are going to pick on Christians, then at least make your questions worth-while, not stupid questions from a 17-year old who knows absolutely nothing about Christianity.
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Hitler did not all of a sudden say, 'Hey, lets band everyone together by hating Jews.' The hatred of Jews in Europe goes all the way back to the time it became Christian. Passages in the Christian's New Testament paint "The Jews" as being the children of the devil, hypocritical, and interested only in money rather than in Gd. \n\nWho wrote the following???\n\n"""But since I learned that those miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews and who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them....Now, in order to strengthen our faith, we want to deal with a few crass follies of the Jews in their belief and their exegesis of the Scriptures, since they so maliciously revile our faith. If this should move any Jew to reform and repent, so much the better. We are now not talking with the Jews but about the Jews and their dealings, so that our Germans, too, might be informed....Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore, in John' 3:39 he states: "If you were Abraham's children would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil." It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.... For they are a heavy burden, a plague, a pestilence, a sheer misfortune for our country. Proof for this is found in the fact that they have often been expelled forcibly from a country, far from being held captive in it....Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.......but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"""\n\nIt was Martin Luther, one of the founders of the Protestant movement in Christianity! See:::\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1543-Luther-JewsandLies-full.html\n\nRemember, Germany was about one half Catholic and one half Lutheran, at the time of Hitler.\n\nCHURCH LAW and NAZI LAW \n1. Prohibition of intermarriage and sexual intercourse between Christians and Jews - Synod of Elvira, A.D. 306  \n1. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, I935 \n\n2. Jews and Christians not permitted to eat together - Synod of Elvira, 306  \n2. Jews barred from dining cars - Dec. 30, 1939 \n\n3. Jews not allowed to hold public office - Synod of Clermont, 535  \n3. Law for the Re-establishment of the Professional Civil Service - April 7, 1933 \n\n4. Jews not allowed to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538  \n4. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, 1935 \n\n5. Jews not permitted in the streets during Passion Week - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538  \n5. Decree authorizing local authorities to bar Jews from streets on certain days - Dec. 3, 1938 \n\n6. Burning of the Talmud and other books - 12th Synod of Toledo, 691  \n6. Book burnings in Germany - 1933 \n\n7. Christians not permitted to patronize Jewish doctors - Trulanic Synod, 692  \n7. Decree of July 25, 1938 \n\n8. Christians not permitted to live in Jewish homes - Synod of Narbonne, 1050  \n8. Directive by Goring providing for concentration of Jews in houses - Dec. 28, I938 \n\n9. Jews obliged to pay taxes for support of the Church to the same extent as Christians - Synod of Gerona, 1078  \n9. Jews must pay special income tax in lieu of donations to the Party imposed on Nazis - Dec. 24, 1940 \n\n10. Jews not per
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first hitler was not jewish (there are rumors that his grandmother was). Hitler was born in 1889 as a fourth child to a succesfull Austrian customs officer. at the age of fouteen his father died and at the same time he droped out of school. Four years late hitler left for Vienna. IN Vienne Hitler soaked up exterme german antionalism which was strong in vienna (even though it was in austria). these extremeists strongly believed in a uninon with the germans and a violent expolusion of the "infrior" races. Hitler was impressed wit the maoyr of Vienna and his anti liberlism and anti capitalism. From Lueger and other hitler obsorbedmuhc anti-semitism, racism and hatred for the slavs.  He wanted to destroy the jews because of his distorted view of Social Darwinsim (survival of the fitest) believing that with the destruction of the infirior races he insures the survival of the german race. \nANother reason for his hatred were his anti capitalist and anti liberalism views. He cliamed that the hews directed an international conspiracy of finance cpitalism and MArxian Socialism against German colture, german unity, and German race. \nwhen Germany lost World War I, heartbroken, he cliamed that the jews had stabed Germany in the back. He promised to fight back...the Allies and the jews. \nHitler believed in the "aryan race" which was a german supriority of the rest of the world. He believed that the jews, the slavs and many other, would impure the german race. \n\nwriters note: i am a jew, and orthodox one. Today is holocaust momrial day. to day we remeber to never forget the horrible things that happened in Europ during the second world war. But the sad thing is that we ignore these things. IN the 1990's many serbains died in an attempt at genocide and today in Darfur many inocent people, womens and children and being murdered every day with the Sudanian government doing abslutly nothing and even supporting it. MAN CANNOT REPEAT HISTORY!!! NEVER FORGET!!!\n\n"Never again shall we march like sheep to the slaughter\nNever again shall we sit and take orders\nStripped of our culture\nRobbed of our name (never again)\nRaped of our freedom and thrown into the flames (never again)\nForced from our families, taken from our homes\nMoved from our God then burned of our bones\nNever again, never again"\n-----Wu Tang Clan, Remedy  \n\n-David
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Historically, the early Christians thought of themselves as Jews who also followed the teachings of Jesus.  Later people became Christians who did not want to also be Jews and in time the leadership of the early church decreed that new converts did not have to follow Jewish custom.  This caused controversy and the church began to distance itself from Judaism.  In time Christians began to resent Jews who wouldn't accept that Jesus was the Messiah and the way to salvation.  They began to use Jews as scapegoats for all that was wrong.  The especially blamed the Jews for the crucifixion and used this as a pretext for all sorts of persecutions.  As the church became more Roman in character this scapegoating was particularly important because after all crucifixion was a Roman form of execution.  After Constantine proclaimed that Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire, the emperors strove to suppress all other religions.  They were fairly successful in eliminating the worship of the old Roman gods as well as various other religions popular at the time but the Jews persisted.  By this time most of them had been driven from their home land for even before the empire became Christian the Jews had resisted Roman rule in part because like the Christians they wouldn't worship the Roman gods.\n\nBy the time the Roman empire collapsed and the middle ages began, persecuting Jews was a cultural habit.  It is always convenient for the people in power to have one group to pick on and blame for their own failings.  In largely Christian Europe the non-conforming Jews filled that bill. Whenever there was a disaster or a plague, the authorities could blames the Jews.  Generations of people grew up believing that Jews were to be hated just because their parents did. Much later Hitler came to power by playing up this ingrained hatred and making the people believe that everything wrong with Germany was the fault of the Jews.  Even today various groups stir up hate for Jews (and other minorities) to advance their own political agendas.  Since they usually have nothing positive to offer they instead try to gain adherents by giving them someone to hate and fear and thus to organize against.
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I don't know the real scientific answer, but I think people hate any people that survive any persecution.  They think it's sneaky, but if you want to survive, you work hard to do so!  People make Jewish people the scapegoat for all their problems.  Many Christians enjoy blaming Jews for the death of Christ, but Christ was a Jew himself - so it's quite illogical.  \n\nThey've survived the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and many years of being thrown out of various countries to this day for the simple reason that they are usually a small population and a minority religion within the region.  They keep their spirit and religion in their daily life.  They stick to their values from generation to generation.  I admire their continuity.
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Forgive me for asking this, as it was mainly for "THE CHRISTIANS" You all do know it was writen by jews, right?
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both are very real. the holocaust was hitlers way of gettin rid of people of jewish faith.idealisticly hitler wanted a superior race,blonde haired blue, eyed men and women possibly under the age of 35.he was a satanic man and had the urged to rule the world.he started in the german army as a corporal but,rose to the top leader of nazi germany.he executed the jewish people simply because they were and are GODs chosen people according to the old testament {KJV}. im a christian and i have my own opinions and understandings which i wont go into now, but, hitler was not a godly man and since he did not beleive in GOD, i figure he didnt want anyone else to.now palestine is a country and a arab one at that.they are like their sister countries.always fighting about something and always in a state of unrest.arab nations have fought with each other or against each other for centuries and will till the end of time.i never understood the arabs really until i could halfway understand thecivil war.father against son,brother against brother.i know nothing of the term Palestine Murderer. could be the killing of a person or people or of the country.just my  simple understanding
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Someone give this bigot a brain-ectomy, please.  \n\n*sighs*  They're not even remotely evil and theres no solid evidence that the Jews had Christ killed (who was a Jew, btw).  Even if a group of Jews did, how do you hold the entire religion responsible?
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Id say people in the Middle East have an extremely biased view (if any) on the Holocaust. Im Lebanese, living in Lebanon, and i can say that the Holocaust is praised (unfortunately) in most Arab countries since Israel is viewed as the main enemy (along with the US). It's sad to see educated people praising Hitler and the horrible genocide he commited against Jews. Being an Arab Christian, my backgroud education gave me the right idea about the genocide. However, most Muslims have this haine for Jews (mostly because the Sheikhs and Arab leaders examplify Israelis and Jews as the force of evil and war in the world). I dont want to sound too pessimistic but a better education will not be the solution because Imams (or Sheikhs, as in muslim religious leaders) will still endoctrinate their followers... The only solution in my opinion is the creation of two states (Israel and Palestine) after both forces recognize one another according to international law. It's a shame extremism (whether ultra-orthodox jews or fanatic muslims) is the obstacle of bringing people together..
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I am incredibly pleased that there is a school somewhere in the world that teaches its students about the reality of the holocaust, and that only 1in3 people killed during it were Jewish.\nHitler was a Roman Catholic, and his Nazi Germany was endorsed by the Papacy, and as a result the Nazis persecuted anyone whom the RC church was against. The nazis not only rounded up Jews, but also Slavs, Gypsies, Communists, the Disabled and Gay people for their concentration camps. All these people were seen as unsavioury by the church, and as unbeneficial to the German society. During 1943, the Nazis started killing people in the concentration camps, for several reasons, one simple one being that too many people meant too many guards, who could be fighting on the frontline. The first people to be butchered in these camps were Russian prisoners of war, then Slavs. Finally, Jews, Gays and disabled people were also slaughtered. Approx 1/2 a million gay people were killed in the Death Camps.
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Hitler's religion is described here: http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm  It seems to be largely unknown, but mainly Christian with a healthy dose of mysticism.  He was raised as a Catholic, and vocally denounced athiesm (http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/unknown/hitler.html)\n\nOther officials within the Nazi regieme were Christian, mostly Catholic although certainly plenty of Protestants, too.\n\nNow (as someone else already mentioned) there is a "Nazi mysticism" movement, about which you can read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_mysticism
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You son of a b**ch!  I lost 17 members of my family in Buchenwald and I know many, many other Jewish people who also lost family members.  The Germans kept meticulous records and we know for a fact that the numbers are correct.  If you are a Muslim, then no explantion is needed for such hatred.  But if you are a Christian, then you are not following the tenets of your religion and you should be ostracized from the Christian community!
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History is currently being distorted by the millions of Christians who lie to have us believe that the Holocaust was not a Christian deed.  Through subterfuge and concealment, many of today’s Church leaders and faithful Christians have camouflaged the Christianity of Adolf Hitler and have attempted to mark him an atheist, a pagan cult worshipper, or a false Christian in order to place his misdeeds on those with out Jesus.  However, from the earliest formation of the Nazi party and throughout the period of conquest and growth, Hitler expressed his Christian support to the German citizenry and soldiers. Those who would make Hitler an atheist should turn their eyes to history books before they address their pews and chat rooms.\n\n    Considering that Christianity has thus far been incapable of producing an unbiased, educated follower which speaks the truth, (I haven’t encountered any), I have been forced to dispel the myth by writing this essay.  It is not until I bring up his speeches, my personal info on the Nazi regime and their tactics that a Christian will begin to question what their clergy told them. (I am the offspring of a German soldier.  My Opa served under Hitler in WW2 and my father was raised during the time of the Nazi regime.  This is important information to take into consideration for I am privy to some info that most Americans do not know.  It is common for American media and education institutions to lie to their citizens concerning Nazi Germany.)  So, in presenting this information I must break it into four parts: 1) Facts about Hitler and his involvement with the Church.  2) How the Church was the catalyst for anti- Semitism.  3) Facts concerning how the Nazi regime drilled these beliefs into Germanic society.  4) Quotes Hitler made which prove he had a disdain for atheism/occultism, upheld his Christian faith, and hated Jews due to his Christianity.\n\nHitler’s involvement with the Church:\n\na) Hitler was baptized as Roman Catholic during infancy in Austria.\n\nb) As Hitler approached boyhood he attended a monastery school.  (On his way to school young Adolf daily observed a stone arch which was carved with the monastery’s coat of arms bearing a swastika.)\n\nc) Hitler was a communicant and an altar boy in the Catholic Church.\n\nd) As a young man he was confirmed as a “soldier of Christ.”  His most ardent goal at the time was to become a priest.  Hitler writes of his love for the church and clergy: “I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals.  As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.”  -Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)\n\ne) Hitler was NEVER excommunicated nor condemned by his church.  Matter of fact the Church felt he was JUST and “avenging for God” in attacking the Jews for they deemed the Semites the killers of Jesus.\n\nf) Hitler, Franco and Mussolini were given VETO power over whom the pope could appoint as a bishop in Germany, Spain and Italy.  In turn they surtaxed the Catholics and gave the money to the Vatican.  Hitler wrote a speech in which he talks about this alliance, this is an excerpt: “The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church.  This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism [Nazism] is hostile to religion is a lie.”  Adolf Hitler, 22 July 1933, writing to the Nazi Party\n\ng) Hitler worked CLOSELY with Pope Pius in converting Germanic society and supporting the church.  The Church absorbed Nazi ideals and preached them as part of their sermons in turn Hitler placed Catholic teachings in public education.  This photo depicts Hitler with Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin.  It was taken On April 20, 1939, when Orsenigo celebrated Hitle
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A prophet is a important person, no one should disrespect Mohammad, Jesus or Moses. But an event in history is different. A historian says that according to the research that I have done, Hitler couldn't have killed 6 million jews in gas chambers (and he never says Hitler was a good guy or that he didn't kill anyone!) And then he has to go to jail because of his research. Doesn't that remind you of Galileo's story....?!
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Hitler was more evil then history wrote.  Some of the things in the history books are really toned down from what happened.  My father was in World War II.  He told me first hand stories about what he saw during the war.
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It was the killing of people of Jewish decent by people of Christian decent.  People who were Jewish were killed if they did or did not subscribe to a particular relgious tradition, and most of the people who did participate in the Holocaust were Christian.  I am not saying that there were not heros of all religions at the time- but there were Christian who did kill.  \n\nThat said- Christianity does have a lot of blood on it's hands, as do many religions.  Crusades, Witch Burnings, and Genicides.  They are even happening today... a religion doesn't protect it's followers from turning evil.
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There were thousands of good decent jews rounded up, put on trains, sent to concentration camps and killed cruelly, heinously!  Nevermind how many. Nevermind those who conveniently "forget".  Hitler  was a dictator who ran Germany.  He was an insane man with senseless prejudices that blue eyed blonds are superior to brunettes and that jews should be annihilated.  Whole families were called to come...they knew not for what.  There were constant calls for certain people. When their names were called they were ordered into one of the buildings, told to disrobe and get into the showers.   If they were lucky, water came through the shower over their head. People who escaped the worst reported that men who ran the showers would play with freezing and boiling water, on people, but this was relatively kind.  When they weren't playing with the water, they had the gas jets on and people were killed.  Trenches were dug. Hundreds of bodies in a spot were thrown in on top of others.  Meanwhile loving family members were separated with no control over it at all.  And their only "crime" might be that they were jewish.  And the dictator, Hitler, in his insanity considered killing jews his right.\nI was an American in my teens living on the east coast, and I met a woman in her 20s with an accent I was unused to. She told me about being in the showers, and about the night she would have been killed in them with gas only she and her boyfriend had a chance to escape on bicycles and they did and they succeeded, and they  came to the United States and got married.  What I know, I "experienced" through her first hand description. But she was rare. Countless thousands of them never had a chance. She was jewish. Since then I have met many people,  a lot of them Germans who emmigrated to this country who insisted  Hitler wasn't so bad, and this mass slaughter did not happen. They were people who never would have been threatened with the ovens,  they were citizens of Germany and whatever they wanted me to believe they felt strongly about it.  It made Germany's fearless leader look bad,  Since then I have seen moving pictures on tv, taken from life --giant piles and thousands of these nude bodies in heaps  thrown from trucks down big slant shoots, and not acted by actors,  this was real. I have seen this repeatedly.  Even while watching this horror I have heard  Americans decide to accept the (fiction) viewpoint and insist everyone around them believe it. People can believe what they want. I value the truth, pretty or ugly.\nPeople like to fictionalize history a great deal, on many sujbjects. \nThey not only fictionalize the truth but they cite a contrived fiction of yesteryear and get multimillions to believe it for political reasons, for $$$ reasons, and aftter a time for majority reasons. And  then if you have a mind of your own appreciate it but keep your own council, unless asked for the truth.\n  That shameful example of Man's inhumanity to man is  in this case, the truth.  Don't let it be swept under a rug and don't let it happen  AGAIN\nagain.