We've been called everything under the sun in Australia in recent years because of our ongoing struggle for equality, by people who profess christianity. And yes we've even been called Nazi's, by Lyle Shelton as the head of the Australian christian Lobby and the late cartoonist Bill Leak.
However we should remember that the Nazi's got the support of German christians. Nazis even went to church and considered themselves as christian. Most of German christianity got on board with Hitler and his concentration camps. Gays were rounded up and imprisoned in said concentration camps and killed.
How ironic it is now that those who profess christianity such as the Australian christian Lobby are now accusing us of being like Nazis :s
A growing body of scholarly research, some based on careful analysis of Nazi records, is clarifying this complex history.[2] It reveals a convoluted pattern of religious and moral failure in which atheism and the nonreligious played little role, except as victims of the Nazis and their allies. In contrast, Christianity had the capacity to stop Nazism before it came to power, and to reduce or moderate its practices afterwards, but repeatedly failed to do so because the principal churches were complicit with—indeed, in the pay of—the Nazis.
Most German Christians supported the Reich; many continued to do so in the face of mounting evidence that the dictatorship was depraved and murderously cruel. Elsewhere in Europe the story was often the same. Only with Christianity’s forbearance and frequent cooperation could fascistic movements gain majority support in Christian nations. European fascism was the fruit of a Christian culture. Millions of Christians actively supported these notorious regimes. Thousands participated in their atrocities. Church and State
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