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Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
9. killing Jesus
Sun May 26, 2019, 12:21 PM
May 2019

I am an atheist, but know the Bible. I once wrote a paper about anti Semitic propaganda in Nazi Germany. What history chooses to glance over was how Christian the Nazis were, Christianity was central to their whole message. The works of propaganda that guided the Nazis were extremely religious in nature with god and Jesus being mentioned and cited literally almost every page. Even Nazi uniforms were well populated with Christian crosses and other symbols. The description in the Bible of the Jews getting the Romans to crucify Jesus was absolutely one of the primary pieces of propaganda the Nazis used to whip up hatred of Jews in highly Christian Germany.

The Jewish faith is pretty cool to me, it’s more based on the pursuit of knowledge and making this world a better place than Christianity IMO. I think historically that has put it at odds with dogmatic Christianity whose history is about controlling the masses rather than enlightenment.

At least that’s what my research led me to back in the 90s when I studied this.

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