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Thread #112434   Message #2383022
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
07-Jul-08 - 11:25 AM
Thread Name: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
Subject: RE: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
Note on Nazi antisemitism: it was based only very indirectly on traditional Christian antisemitism.

Actually, the "master-race" Nazis claimed that Jews were inferior biologically. That was partly on the basis that after two thousand years had not staked out their own militarized, independent nation based on conquest - as the Teutonic "races" had done. That supposedly showed they were parasitical, unfit to live, blah blah blah blah. To Hitler and other Nazi ideologues they were "microbes," "vermin," "a cancer in the blood," etc. A bastardized pseudo-Darwinism was enlisted in support of these weird and diabolical fantasies.

Besides being antisemitic, Nazi ideologues like Alfred Rosenberg were also antichristian. They regarded Christianity as a weakling's religion based on "Jewish superstition." A postwar goal was the replacement of German Christianity by some kind of symbolic, romanticized paganism with an element of Nordic gene-worship added.