Religious Resignation

[Occhidiangela]

Pete said: "That 'church', if it were white, would have eagles with swastikas in their talons on either side of the cross and would be denounced for racism."

Hm. What group is symbolized by Eagles and Swastikas? Oh, right. The Nazis.

And in the previous thread on this topic, who was Kandrathe dragging out for comparison? Oh, right. Hitler. (And Jim Jones, for good measure.)

And who are you bringing out? David Duke, famed Holocaust denier who believes Hitler was a great guy for fighting the interational Jewish-Communist conspiracy.

Yeah, I'm really just trying to shoehorn the Nazis in here. Who knows where kooky old Jester gets these nutty ideas? Must just be a typical Canadian failure to comprehend American politics.

-Jester

Afterthought: Perhaps, with the most charity I can muster, one could day that David Duke is merely a Neo-Nazi. If that's the argument, then fine, you're comparing Wright to *Neo-Nazis*, not Nazis proper. Forgive me if I do not find this to be much closer to the mark.

Clueless much?

You don't have to be a Neo Nazi to hate Jews. The habit of disliking or hating Jews is a very long and distinguished tradition among European nations, and peoples, which sentiment was well exported to America with the immigrants, and for that matter, Canada, and picked up by the blacks of New York as nicely demonstrated by Jesse Jackson's infamous "Hymie Town" sound byte.

I'll say it again, slowly: you don't have to be a Nazi to hate Jews. WHether you choose to hate Jews for any reason is of course another matter, and worthy of the same introspection one ought to undertake if one chooses to hate blacks, Asians, or Americans as a group.

Or are all Arabs Nazis?

Are the leaders of Iran Nazis?

Are the leadership if Hamas Nazis?

Are you getting my point, or will you stick your fingers in your ears and chant "lalalalalalala" until you convince yourself that disliking or hating Jews = Nazi?

Pete's reference to nationalism was far more intelligently made than you leaping, incorrectly, on Duke as NAZI versus what he is: a White Nationalist. Here is another clue for you. German Nazis or at least some of the more infamous of that gang, tended to be of a Catholic strain, if they were at all religiously inclined, whereas Klansmen, WN's, and the Christian Identity crowd tend to be of various Protestant extractions. But even that is an oversimplification.

Let the Nazis rot in the hell of history that they created for themselves. There are plenty of other haters running amok who are splendidly qualified for examniation and wariness, or even attack, none of whom necessarily need to be labeled Nazi due to your intellectual laziness.

Is a French anti Semite, a French Nationalist, a Nazi?

Is a Russian anti Semite/Russian Nationalist a Nazi?

Why don't you refer to the Hutus as Nazis? They hated their Tutsi countrymen with a vigor and passion equal to or greater than Hitler's crowd did the Jews, they just weren't as organized, nor as technically gifted, to implement their desired extermination in a time scale that the Final Solution policy attempted, and failed, to achieve.

No, Jester, I cannot acceopt your lame defense of a careless Godwin.

Get over the Germans, already, there are plenty of others to stand as exemplars of hating their fellow man, or just a small subset of their fellow man.

Occhi