Religion
In reply to the discussion: Corruption, Duplicitousness, and Lying are Important Christian Values, Apparently. [View all]Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)You seem to take in stride the likelihood that 1) religious leaders and even 2) God himself
lie. That 3) the pope might have been a Nazi for a while. And you assume that every one who objects to thst, deserves sarcasm.
From your easy acceptance of deceptive religion, I'd place you in or after the Reagan republicans. Probably evangelicals. Who were used to their preachers lying and whoring constantly (Swaggart, the Bakers, etc.).
I'm old enough to remember the 1950s. When the standard for a religious leader or God was, .. higher than what you or I would do. When the standard for a preacher was to be "Christlike".
And? Jesus Christ of course, would not join the Nazi Party (or so we were told..) Even temporarily. Even in an emergency. When people tried to force him, draft him to do something bad, he was supposed to have refused.
The penalty for desertion under fire in Germany was death. But in the rear areas, and especially as the Reich collapsed, enforcement slipped. In the last year of the war, there were millions of German soldiers who disappeared, or found reasons not to show up, for the final defeat.
Nazi conviction and enforcement were slipping radically, after the.catastrophic German defeat in Stalingrad.