• bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Look we can be flippant about how evil organized religion is or we can discuss history. We can’t just vacillate between the two and expect a productive discussion. Major Christian institutions were attacked by the nazi party/hitler. This is historical fact. Whether or not they branded themselves as Christian or even were Christian doesn’t change that fact. They went after both Catholic and Protestant institutions across the country. Many clergy were arrested and/or killed. This is history, not another proxy battle for “church bad.”

    I mean the nazi party had “socialist” in its name. Would it not be pretty reductionist of me to say “they were socialist”?