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

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Ultimately Judaism itself is responsible for the Holocaust. Truly a object lesson in those that live by the sword in the end die by the sword. Sadly it is a lesson nobody wants to learn. Jewish faith and tradition is heavily geared toward a very positive view on the practice of Genocide. Further more the community went so far as to pass laws based upon racial purity. They even floated the notion of zealotry. Later religions just co-opted these concepts into their faiths, and thus compounded the thought.

Ultimately Judaism as a faith is heavily Nationalistic. So it isn't at all surprising that its ideas were so readily adapted to Nationalism. Let us be clear Social Darwinism isn't a separate discipline it is a subtext of Nationalism. There was never any justification for it historically, biologically, or religiously. It was a justification that tried to wrap itself in the cloak of science to give it legitimacy. Natural Selection makes no value based judgements.

The reality is this Hitler used the playbook written by the Jewish Patriarchs. He followed their thinking, and their example. The simple truth is the Jews wrote the Nazi playbook. If you are looking to pin the blame ultimately on the predecessor to Nazism. You need look no further then Judaism. They called it the promised land, and Hitler went with breathing room.

Speaking to Christianity lets not beat around the bush. It is actually a form of Judaism. Perhaps more removed or perverted. Yet it still springs from the same ideas. All I am saying is it dragged the bad thinking forward. While true it probably places greater importance on conversion over complete eradication there is still some of that inside of the faith. That is why this debate has gone in circles, because Christianity is at odds with itself. At the deepest level it is racial, but on the surface it is egalitarian. So it is the Jewish thought that in both itself, and in Christianity that is primarily at fault. Blame the Torah, and blame the Old Testament.

That is where Hitler, and his cohorts got their groove. In my humble opinion the Jewish people should probably look towards revising their books, and encourage their Christian brothers to do likewise. Can you really argue that what Hitler did was evil. While celebrating those that did likewise. The only difference is in who reaped the reward for what happened. In both cases someone got the property by murdering off the owner. Exactly what difference is there between a Canaanite who lost his farm, and a Jewish man who lost his shop. The answer is not anything at all, and that is the problem.

As long as these faiths are built upon stories that say genocide is divine, and thus justified they will continue to be a incredible excuse for genocide in the future. The irritating part is this if genocide is bad in our modern context then logically speaking you shouldn't argue that these passages were divine. Instead you should argue that they are what they probably were all along. Purely base propaganda to justify wanton crimes against humanity. A total fabrication and lie. In books that are supposed to be true these pages should just be ripped out. That will never in the end happen sadly. Since modern religion is a all of nothing proposition. If you concede that any part of it is total bullshit then that places the rest in doubt.