mogadishu wrote:Hitler was a Christian. His henchman were Christians. The third Reich were devout Catholics. Isn't it time we grew out of the idea that Christians fought on this side at that time, therefore they must be holy and and any killing they encountered must be righteous?
"The old lie: dulce et decorumest, pro patria mori"
That is a shameless lie: the Third Reich were not "devout Catholics"; nor were Hitler or his "henchman" practising Christians.
The Third Reich was, if anything, pagan. Hitler and the Nazis and consumed with Eastern mysticism as distorted to support their racist views on Aryan supremacy.
The swastika epitomizes the Third Reich's "religion":
The word is derived from the Sanskrit "svastika" and means "good to be". In Indo-European culture it was a mark made on people or objects to give them good luck.
It has been around for thousands of years, particularly as a Hindu symbol in the holy texts, to mean luck, Brahma or samsara (rebirth). It can be clockwise or anti-clockwise and the way it points in all four directions suggests stability. Sometimes it features a dot between each arm.
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4183467.stm
The motif seems to have first been used in Neolithic Eurasia. The swastika is used in religious and civil ceremonies in India. Most Indian temples, entrance of houses, weddings, festivals and celebrations are decorated with swastikas. The symbol was introduced to Southeast Asia by Hindu kings and remains an integral part of Balinese Hinduism to this day, and it is a common sight in Indonesia. The symbol has an ancient history in Europe, appearing on artifacts from pre-Christian European cultures. It was also adopted independently by several Native American cultures.
In the Western world, the symbol experienced a resurgence following the archaeological work in the late nineteenth century of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the symbol in the site of ancient Troy and associated it with the ancient migrations of Proto-Indo-Europeans ("Aryan" people). He connected it with similar shapes found on ancient pots in Germany, and theorised that the swastika was a "significant religious symbol of our remote ancestors," linking ancient German, Greek and Vedic culture.[1] [2] By the early 20th century it was widely used worldwide and was regarded as a symbol of good luck and auspiciousness.
The work of Schliemann soon became intertwined with the völkisch movements, for which the swastika was a symbol of "Aryan" identity, a concept that came to be equated by theorists like Alfred Rosenberg with a Nordic master race originating in northern Europe. Since its adoption by the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler, the swastika has been associated with fascism, racism (white supremacy), World War II, and the Holocaust in much of the West. The swastika remains a core symbol of Neo-Nazi groups, and is also regularly used by activist groups to signify the supposed Nazi-like behaviour of organizations and individuals they oppose.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Based on your earlier posts, it appeared that you just make up bullshit as you go along. It was therefore unclear whether you are a knave or a fool. Your post quoted above confirms that you are both a knave and a fool as well as an anti-Christian bigot.
