Look, I'm not defending that son of a bitch who is responsible for some of my kin dying in the fucking war. But let's not kid ourselves, here. "Gott mit uns" was stamped on his troops belt buckles. Want to know how I know that? I've got several that were collected by my kin and passed down as a reminder and memento to us kids. "Gott mit uns" literally God is with us.
I don't doubt that the folks in charge will happily and readily use their subjects faith to their benefit in a war. We've got Kid Smeller Joe Biden who clutches his Rosaries and pretends to be Catholic and we had GW Bush who repeatedly used his Christian faith to justify Iraq, which had nothing to do with Christianity and caused millions of Middle Eastern Christians to be displaced. The folks in power more often than not don't believe the faith their subjects and citizens do and there is an ancient Roman quote about that.
Look, I'm not defending that son of a bitch who is responsible for some of my kin dying in the fucking war. But let's not kid ourselves, here. "Gott mit uns" was stamped on his troops belt buckles. Want to know how I know that? I've got several that were collected by my kin and passed down as a reminder and memento to us kids. "Gott mit uns" literally God is with us.
I don't doubt that the folks in charge will happily and readily use their subjects faith to their benefit in a war. We've got Kid Smeller Joe Biden who clutches his Rosaries and pretends to be Catholic and we had GW Bush who repeatedly used his Christian faith to justify Iraq, which had nothing to do with Christianity and caused millions of Middle Eastern Christians to be displaced. The folks in power more often than not don't believe the faith their subjects and citizens do and there is an ancient Roman quote about that.
I concur. Completely. But don't brush off Hitler's faith. Think "Jim Jones."