On 4/13/2011 4:02 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:

> You'll get no disagreement on either of those points.  The best example
> of that (at the risk of Godwinning the thread) is Hitler - some claim
> that Hitler was an atheist because he did things; others claim that he
> did bad things because he was an atheist.
>
> But most of the people who *actually* did the bad things (not that Hitler
> didn't) were undeniably Christians who were following Hitler.  Hitler's
> actual choice of beliefs really is a minor detail in the Holocaust.

They were by no means "undeniably" Christian.  There is good ground to deny.

When contacted by American chaplains, many German prisoners-of-war 
professed either atheism or nature-worship.  It is true that most were 
nominally Christians (specifically, either Lutheran or Catholic), but 
they had long abandoned whatever faith they had acquired from either of 
these churches.

Regards,
John

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