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« on: March 30, 2023, 02:13:11 PM »

Additionally, it played a role in the Holocaust

Don't mistake the Nazi's pandering to Christians as Hitler being a Christian. He suppressed Abrahamic religions as Jewish inventions and cracked down on the ones which wouldn't honor Nazism. Christianity has made a lot of mistakes over history which should be acknowledged as it's not perfect but to make this assertion is incorrect.

And the statement about Donald Trump is an oversimplification. Trump knew he couldn't win as a Dem so he overlooked and modified his platform to appeal to the Tea Party crowd. While many of them are Christian's, there were plenty who opposed his presidency. And while the two are correlated, they're not exact. It was much more of a cultural phenomena as many of his voters were Christian's but it wasn't the religion that got him elected.

I get that it's a SnowLabrador thread, but the notion that Hitler was a genuine Christian is one of the biggest historical myths trotted out by atheists. Hitler's plan after winning the war was to corrupt the churches and use them to promote his own bastardized version of the faith, ironically named "Positive Christianity."

Trump is not a particularly religious man either and probably a majority of evangelicals supported Cruz or other candidates in the primaries. And this is what Trump said when an interviewer asked him if he ever sought forgiveness from God:
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“I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so,” he said. “I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.”

Trump is easily one of the most secular presidents we've ever had and in fact, both Hillary Clinton (who thought about becoming a Methodist minister) and Biden are very open about their faith.
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