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

[sapphi_snake]

padib said:

sapphi_snake said:

padib said:
^What about the sick?

Pulling society back. This one isn't related to religion at all. As I said, I was talking only about Jews. Bringing other groups into this is irrelevant.

Not to me. Because to me, if one of them is not based on religion, it makes it much more credible to me that, in truth, it isn't based on religion for the other ones. It would most likely, in my opinion, be a pretext. When I watched a documentary on this, the propaganda pictures of hatred towards the jews looked more racist than based on religion in many ways. They were depicted with ugly faces, and big noses.

Again, it's my opinion. You're allowed to disagree...

If you read Medieval christian texts, you'll see that Jews are described as being ugly then too. Typically, when you want to demonize a particular group of people, one of the first thigns you do is present them as beign physically repulsive, this repulsiveness being a testament of their 'evilness' (you know, bad peopel are ugly, good people are pretty). Actually, those propaganda pictures mirror christian anti-jewish rhetoric, which kinda proves my point. As I said, their persecution started a long time before the Holocaust, which was just it's climax. The underlined is a grave error you made when analizing the situation.