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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's simply not true. They didn't target Catholics, they targeted parts of the Catholic church (the institution) for political opposition. That's a very different thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it isn't. When you go after a Church to limit its voice in society you are attacking the faithful. Targeting the church IS going after Catholics.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe from a revisionist perspective. ~20% of NSDAP members were Catholic. Keep in mind that the NSDAP was founded in deeply Catholic Bavaria. ~400 Catholic priests from Germany ended up in concentration camps, out of 20.000. It was no attack on the Catholic church, but on individuals within the church who publicly opposed the Nazis. That's political persecution, not religious persecution. Any claim to the contrary is historical revisionism.

95% of the German population was either Catholic or Protestant. And so was the NSDAP and their voter base. It tilted more to Protestants, but Catholics were not excluded. The Reichskonkordat benefitted the Protestant and Catholic churches equally.

This is more of a reply to everybody and not just your comment specifically. Where do you people think the antisemitism in 1930s Germany came from? Hitler and the NSDAP came around and turned "everybody" into anti-Semites? No. The Christian antisemitism was already there and the NSDAP tapped into it. Especially, but not limited to, from the Protestant side: Martin Luther was a raging anti-Semite. Pogroms had been taking place all over Europe for hundreds of years before the NSDAP arrived. The NSDAP "only" brought it to the next level. The entire anti-Semite NSDAP movement was deeply rooted in Christianity. If any Christian individual was persecuted by the Nazi regime it was for political opposition, not for their Christianity. If a fringe Christian sect was persecuted by the Nazis, they were persecuted by other flavors of Christianity! That the Nazis (who were by and large Christians) persecuted Christians for being Christians is complete revisionist nonsense!

Remember the past or you are condemned to repeat it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok but that doesn't have anything to do with the fact they targeted Catholics. The GOP has gay members yet it is 100% accurate to say the GOP does not believe gay people should have equal rights with straight people, so even though the GOP is targeting gay people they still have gay members.

Catholics being part of the Nazi party doesn't have the significance you think it does.

As n aside why are you calling them anything other than the Nazi party? I get NSDAP was the name they preferred but why grant Nazis respect?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok but that doesn't have anything to do with the fact they targeted Catholics.

Nonsense.

The GOP has gay members yet it is 100% accurate to say the GOP does not believe gay people should have equal rights with straight people, so even though the GOP is targeting gay people they still have gay members.

Straw man.

Catholics being part of the Nazi party doesn't have the significance you think it does.

Lie: 20% Catholics in the party is significantly more than the one or two alibi open homosexuals in the GOP.

As n aside why are you calling them anything other than the Nazi party? I get NSDAP was the name they preferred but why grant Nazis respect?

Diversion.

All the numbers and historical circumstances I layed out are easily verifiable facts. Your compulsive urge to cling to a false narrative in the presence of irrefutible evidence and attempt to dance around that by picking out fragments of what I said and attempting to ridicule everything by extension is preposterous. And everybody with the reading comprehension of a high schooler should see right through it. I'm out of your bad faith (or ignorant) excuse for a conversation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You should not list off rhetorical fallacies as a response unless you are certain you understand them. You have been incorrect about both.

The example of the GOP is not a straw man as it is an identical situation to the Nazis in that the targeted group also has members within the group. You don't know what a straw man argument is and you proved it here.

You should probably stop here since you haven't provided any evidence that supports your claims while simultaneously showing a startlingly poor understanding of reasoning.