Boy, this thread has wandered. It's not a thread, it's a tapestry. To go back to where it started, when the question was about FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS, and then wandered into "Christians," then on to Nazis, I just want to add a simple point. When one of my sons was in High School, he wrote a term paper on the Christian imagery in Lord of the Rings. I thought he made many excellent points... enough that it is one of the few school papers that I saved. I read the Hobbit and the whole trilogy to my sons TWICE when they were kids, and as a christian, I didn't find anything even mildly bothersome. When you start talking about "Christians," it's like talking about "folksingers." Generalizations are comforting, but don't mean a whole lot.

Jerry