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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">StoneHands</strong> said:</div><div>Nazi Germany was a Christian nation, but the leadership was almost all anti-Christian, theologically speaking. Himmler felt Christianity in its Catholic/Protestant form was for the weak, perhaps influenced by Nietzche's writings. Nazis didn't kill because of God, that is certain. While they courted the support of the Church, they did it for manpower. <br />
	The Armenian Genocide was orchestrated by an extreme nationalist forces, who would later morph into the Young Turks - a secularist movement. They certainly didn't belong to the traditional religious class. <br />
	Your talk of communism being theistic is a bit of a stretch. Yeah, there was cult of personality and such, but belief in an omnipotent Creator God was virtually non-existent, which is what theism is defined as.<br />
	The point stands - theism, a belief in a higher power, is not at the root of the problems that are being ascribed to it.</div></blockquote>
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	The Nietzsche influence on Nazi Germany was overblown.  If you read "Mein Kampf" you'll find plenty of positive references to Jesus and Christianity, and if you read Martin Luther's "On the Jews and Their Lies" you'll find what looks like a blueprint for the early days of the Holocaust.<br />
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	Killing off the Jews is inextricably linked to a long and ugly history of German anti-Semitism and I don't see how anyone can rationally deny that.  I also don't see how anyone can fail to see the link between theism and the endless troubles in the Middle East, but maybe that's just me.  <br />
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	The problem may not be theism in and of itself, but when two groups of theists who have different conceptions of the sky fairy and what it wants have to coexist, problems seem to arise as often as not.<br />
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	And I didn't say Communism was theistic.  But it is (at least in the Stalin/Mao versions) a state religion.  They even purged heretics.  It's not like I'm the first person to make this argument.

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