Are there any religions or cults that you just do not understand? With in reason.

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padib said:

But you do realize that the one common factor, though there are ancient traces of religion there which were (I repeat) superceded by sentiments of superiority, is the sentiment of racial superiority. That is an evolutionary notion. Why did they murder the sick which were aryan? You're holding on to blaming religion, but your sense of priorities in this matter is not tuned properly. The more dominant factor is the sense of race superiority, which more truthfully is based in racism and misled evolutionary ideologies, much less religion.

Religion was one of the chief reasons why people had feelings of 'racial superiority'. In the past evolution was even applied to religions, Western people claming that monotheism (mainly christianity) was the most evolved form of religions on the planet. Thus populations who believed in non-monotheistic religions were labeled as 'primitive' and 'inferior'. However, (misguided) evolutionary theories weren't that important when it came to the hatred against Jews. They were just another reason to hate them, not the chief reason (note, referring only to the Jews here).