VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Dinah|DATE|1359377390|CONTENT|&#039;The Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda - none of these were primarily motivated by religion.&#039;

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.  Anti-semitism had been rife in Europe for centuries before the Holocaust: at one point during the middle ages Jews were expelled from this country.  That&#039;s not to say there weren&#039;t other causes, such as the depression in the German economy, leading to the election of an extremist leader, and the scapegoating of minority groups.  |IP-ADDRESS|79.71.122.118|MODERATIONFLAG|