From: LancaStir@webtv.net   
      
   > The Holocaust was caused by   
   > Christian fundamentalism:   
      
   There is quite a range of commitment to the Christian Fundamentalist   
   agenda. At one end, you have people dressing up and going to their   
   churches with a smug "I'm saved, you're not nyah, nyah, nyah" manner, in   
   the middle, you have them dressing up and burning crosses in the middle   
   of the night, and at the other end, you have the anti-abortion   
   terrorists.  Obviously, Hitler belongs at the latter end.   
      
   It's all based on an uneducated clergy pandering to the fears of the   
   insecure, but lacking severe mental illness, it rarely goes so far as   
   assassination, bombing, and death camps. Hitler was syphilitic.   
      
   Hitler was also part-jew. That may or may not be significant. After all,   
   on a proportional basis, the Romany suffered far more from the Holocaust   
   than the Jewish. There were simply fewer of them to complain afterwards.   
      
   I find your failure to distinguish between the christian and the   
   christian fundamentalist to be a problem.  Mark Twain pointed out that   
   the difference between the right word and the almost-right word to be   
   the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.   
      
   Hitler didn't hate Jews because he was a Christian, but because he was a   
   Christian Fundamentalist. Unlike Christian Fundamentalists, the   
   Christian is willing to admit that "there are many rooms in my Father's   
   house" and that most faiths, including non-christian ones, appear to   
   worship the same God in a sincere fashion.   
      
   Jesus was a jew, not a Christian. Fundamentalist Christianity is not   
   based in the teachings of Jesus, nor his brother James nor the church at   
   Jerusalem, but in the teachings of Paul, who was repeatedly beaten by   
   the Christian leadership within one stroke of death for heresy.   
      
      
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