the Nazi salute, which a version of was done in my church until recently, calling it a blessing. I would point out to them that the blessing was identical in appearance to the Nazi salute but they went by intention more than obviously what it looked like..but I think they were dead wrong to permit this.

I've seen that once, by the minister at a Church of Scotland funeral. It was for a friend of mine who had been in the Gay Christian movement, and who wouldn't personally have gone for that minister's utterly traditionalist approach, but funerals are for the living, and I presume his family did. It seemed a bit weird to me, but it would never have occurred to me to ban it. The Kirk has presumably been doing it at funerals for more than 400 years, so why should they let the Nazis take it away from them?

It went along a phrase about hope in the resurrection, spoken as the coffin went into the incinerator. If those words and the accompanying ritual offered some comfort to the guy's family, I'm fine with that.