When most think of Nazi killing, genocide immediately comes to mind, particularly that of "6,000,00 Jews".
Besides Jews, the Third Reich murdered near 2,400,000 Poles, 3,000,000 Ukrainians, 1,593,000 Russians, and 1,400,000 Byelorussians. These people were overwhelmingly Christian.
Hitler’s government first finessed the Catholic Church in the Concordat of 1933. The Holy See had tried and failed to secure a concordat with the Weimar Republic. The sticking point was the church’s desire for state support for Catholic schools and for Catholic religious instruction in the public schools. This was unacceptable to Weimar’s parliament, especially to the Socialists, who thought that it violated the separation between church and state.
(Sound familiar? No really!)
Besides assuring that civil authorities would not interfere in the naming of bishops and pastors, as had happened in the immediate past, Hitler’s Reich also promised financial support to the church’s schools and that it would make Catholic religious education available in the public schools—religious education taught only by instructors approved by the bishops.
Having bought off (or bought, depending upon one’s point of view) the RC church, the Reich then focused on the Protestant sects. This led to the persecution of those who kept Christian ideals, such as
Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Inevitably, the Vatican’s pact with Hitler frayed, and
Catholic religious found their way into the concentration camps.
Hitler had hundreds of top Nazi SA's (Sturmabteilung) assassinated in June and July 1934, who under Ernst Rohm were becoming a strong competitor to the SS (Schutzstaffel). He had perhaps 5,000 Germans executed after the 1944 plot on his life and attempted coup d'etat. Indeed, it is why critics, pacifists, homosexuals, conscientious objectors, campus rebels, dissidents, and others throughout the twelve-year history of the regime in Germany, were executed. What is the religion of a pacifist? What is the religious denomination of a homosexual? Of what sect are critics?
No. I believe that when the record is examined at leisure, when the data is reviewed, you’ll find that
Nazis were absolute racists, especially among the top echelon; they believed completely in the superiority of the "Aryan" race.
I think it reasonable to describe the results of an election in which the candidate who secures the largest vote count as a “summarization” of the individual ballots cast. No two voters think exactly alike, but the aggregate, or the sum, of their votes is what is secured by the election winner. Yes, summarization does seem apt. What would you call it?
In re Exodus 13 and 15: As gently as I can – you can’t be serious, can you? These chapters from the Pentateuch are at the core of Jewish heritage.
Exodus 13, Redemption of the First Born is
very real and very now. The presentation of Christ in the Temple (Luke 2:22) is a New Testament restatement of Ex 13, so Christians are down with that too.
Exodus 15 is Israel’s’ jubilation song of salvation from Pharaoh’s charioteers, so I will agree with you there, it would be surprising to see that legislated.
In re Churchill’s commentary on democracy: Yes’m. No arguments from me ‘bout that!