VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Administrator (Rev. Dr. Peter Hearty)|DATE|1359379797|CONTENT|[blockquote]I would have thought that religion did play a major role in the Holocaust: the ancient antipathy between Jews and Christians which resulted from the Biblical texts blaming Jews for the death of Jesus. [/blockquote]

Yes, that's true. Without that history it might well have been some other group that bore the brunt of Nazi hatred. However, the Nuremberg laws were based on a person's ancestry, not on their current religious practise. You couldn't get out of the concentration camp by converting to Christianity, for example.

So I think there is still considerable justification for asserting that the Holocaust was [i]primarily[/i] targeting a race, rather than a religion. Not that it makes a lot of difference to the millions who were murdered.|IP-ADDRESS|94.168.119.214|MODERATIONFLAG|
