William Lindsey Mar 21

Watching "Nuremberg" — the horrifying footage of murdered human beings in one concentration camp after another:

And thinking of the vile words today of the man for whom over half of white Christians have voted three times:

ROBERT MUELLER JUST DIED.
GOOD, I'M GLAD HE'S DEAD.

And thinking:

#Trump #Mueller #Nuremberg #Christians
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

Some 95% of Germans were Christian when Hitler came to power. Hitler was applauded, celebrated, welcomed by many Christian leaders and their congregations in Germany who said that God had placed him in power to make the German people great again.

Millions died.

Millions were murdered.

And even now, large numbers of US white Christians keep right on standing by their man….

#Trump #Mueller #Nuremberg #Christians
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Show thread🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇦Mar 21

@wdlindsy Here's some info, assuming you wish to believe it:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-state

The German Churches and the Nazi State | Holocaust Encyclopedia

How did Christians and their churches in Germany respond to the Nazi regime and its laws, particularly to the persecution of the Jews? Learn more.

Holocaust Encyclopedia
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Mar 22
@ManyRoads Why wouldn't I believe well-documented historical facts?
Show threadUltra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Mar 21

@wdlindsy

'Got mit uns' on SS belt buckles

Cramming the ten commandments into schools

Functionally equivalent

Show threadDesert Square GardenerMar 22
@wdlindsy A lifetime of seeing my people degraded and marginalized is why I now steer clear of the people in the two demographics of your last sentence.
Show threadMichael GemarMar 22

@wdlindsy Many/most evangelical Christians view that label as a cultural label than a description of faith.

(And as someone who watched a lot of atheist “debates” on YouTube, it’s shocking how often Christians will approve of Biblical atrocities, *and* say they personally would commit them today if they thought their god told them to.)

Show threadMartin RustMar 22
@wdlindsy 95% may have been formally members of a Christian church. Certainly a lot of them were not Christians in faith.
Show threadGrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸Mar 22
@wdlindsy Keep telling us religion is not the problem
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Mar 22
@grumpydad I would propose that Dietrich Bonhoeffer — to take one example from many of those who gave their lives to resist Nazism, with their religious conviction motivating them — demonstrates that religion can be both the problem and the antidote. And that religion is multifaceted and not the simplistic object our prejudice — from whatever side — wants us to make it to be.