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[-] PvtGetSum@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

That's a bit of a stretch don't you think. I don't like the church either but saying they're responsible for the Holocaust is quite a leap lmfao

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

They are unquestionably responsible for helping a load of high level Nazi murderers to escape after the war, so maybe it's not too much of a leap considering how pervasive the Nazi message has remained after all these years

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

That's helping them escape, not being responsible for what nazis did. I mean it's irreparably damaging to their already abominable image but it wasn't their fault Hitler rose to power.

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I wasn't offering that as evidence that they were responsible for the Holocaust, I was offering it as an example of their close ties with the church. Unless you think they just became buddy buddy with them after the war ended? Considering we're only just learning about the large part they played helping these criminals escape justice, it might not be so far fetched of an idea that the Catholics had a larger role in the Holocaust than we know.

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago

Perhaps but the problem is that we don't know how deep their role was. There plenty of reasons hate on the catholic church without inventing things.

[-] mrpants@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

The problem here is that you don't know how deep their role was. Nothing is being made up. Pope John XXIII even wrote about the role Catholic antisemitism played in the lead up to the Holocaust.

https://origins.osu.edu/history-news/catholic-church-and-holocaust?language_content_entity=en

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_Judaism

[-] cantrips@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

So did the US government, in Operation Paperclip. Arguably worse was the protection that the US government gave towards Japanese war criminals in Unit 731. The US govt has protected / harbored some of the most evil people to have lived in the past century.

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Nice whataboutism!

[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

Not directly, no.

But would you mind exlaining to me why the Nazi's social darwinism heavily focused on Jews?What's the root cause of antisemitism?

I can answer it: the church's centuries of antisemitism. There's a reason antisemitism was this extremely widespread in Europe.

[-] PvtGetSum@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Antisemitism was prevalent long before the Catholic Church, and was prevalent outside of the church. Unfortunately it's one of those things that is just shitty behavior, and not exclusively a shitty church thing

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