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In reply to the discussion: Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology [View all]Mariana
(14,854 posts)42. Killing millions of Jews wasn't about religion.
Catholics were a significant percentage of the population of Germany. Jews (and descendants of Jews) comprised less than one percent. There was no attempt to exterminate the Catholic population of Germany or of any other country the Nazis controlled.
Catholic clergy who opposed the regime were imprisoned in concentration camps, just like anyone else who opposed the regime, and many of them died there, just like anyone else who opposed the regime. Some of the Catholics who were killed were of Jewish descent and were killed for that reason.
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Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology [View all]
yallerdawg
Oct 2017
OP
what is wrong with reality, I wonder? Why always the need for something else?
NRaleighLiberal
Oct 2017
#2
my wife and I have been saying that for many years. We quite love reality - despite it's occasional
NRaleighLiberal
Oct 2017
#5
Well, what's so wrong with this world and reality that we need to be saved by Jesus?
trotsky
Oct 2017
#6
Forgive me, but you say "ovens" and I can't think of anything but the Holocaust.
Pope George Ringo II
Oct 2017
#31
It got sidetracked with some ignorant slander accusing atheists of committing the Holocaust
Pope George Ringo II
Oct 2017
#47
Sounds good to me! Religion is all fables, politics, superstitions and many out for money! n/t
RKP5637
Oct 2017
#63