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To: Little Joe who wrote (125124)2/3/2001 3:03:22 AM
From: Andy Thomas  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
--I would classify the Nazi extermination of the Jews as religiously motivated.--

yes but the religion was a peculiar brand of paganism.

christians suffered too.

andy



To: Little Joe who wrote (125124)2/5/2001 11:37:22 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Although religious anti- semitism played a role in setting the stage for Nazi persecution of Jews, the ideological basis in Nazism itself was racist, not religious. That is why it didn't matter if one had converted, and, indeed, one need only have had one grandparent who was Jewish to be sent to an extermination camp.......