"if you see Bolshevism and Nazism as Christian heresies"
I'm not sure that I do. I'd be interested to read your argument in favour of this statement.
I included the Holocaust as a relevant example because the Nazis considered themselves good Christians while using Jewry as a good enough excuse to massacre "outsiders". I'm not sure there was a specifically Christian basis for this genocide, except at a distant remove through the Nazis' (and other similarly inclined dimwits') notion that Christianity and the Aryans were just, like, made for each other. If you can make a good case for Nazism as a Xtian offshoot cult, though, I'd love to hear it!
" think it odd that the media concentrate on doctrinal differences, which they never bother to spell out"
I think it odd that the US mainstream media assume everyone has a religion, and that this is A Good Thing. It's rather in the same way that they assume only the lunatic fringe oppose the Iraq war. There are lots of atheists/agnostics around; to get an idea of the numbers, even though many are intimidated into pretending religious belief, polls show there are about as many rationalists in the US as there are African-Americans.
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Date: 2007-12-09 02:27 am (UTC)I'm not sure that I do. I'd be interested to read your argument in favour of this statement.
I included the Holocaust as a relevant example because the Nazis considered themselves good Christians while using Jewry as a good enough excuse to massacre "outsiders". I'm not sure there was a specifically Christian basis for this genocide, except at a distant remove through the Nazis' (and other similarly inclined dimwits') notion that Christianity and the Aryans were just, like, made for each other. If you can make a good case for Nazism as a Xtian offshoot cult, though, I'd love to hear it!
" think it odd that the media concentrate on doctrinal differences, which they never bother to spell out"
I think it odd that the US mainstream media assume everyone has a religion, and that this is A Good Thing. It's rather in the same way that they assume only the lunatic fringe oppose the Iraq war. There are lots of atheists/agnostics around; to get an idea of the numbers, even though many are intimidated into pretending religious belief, polls show there are about as many rationalists in the US as there are African-Americans.