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You’re certainly right about the German people, but the official, largely failed, religion of the Reichschurch was a form of paganism with some Christian appearances. I think his point was that Islam is directly implicated in the motivation for the 9/11 attack, Christianity wasn’t a factor in the the motivation of constructing Auschwitz. Thus the case against the Mosque is greater than the controversy at Auschwitz.

I think the tack he should have taken was that IN SPECIFIC the Catholic Church (as well as many other specific Christians and denominations) did many things to help save Jews and protect Catholics of Jewish descent from the ovens - and that as an organization, the Catholic Church had nothing to do with causing or perpetuating the Holocaust; just as Christianity itself had nothing to do with causing or perpetuating the Holocaust - just a lot of befuddled and confused and violently racist people who (mostly)called themselves Christian - and were whipped up into a fury with anti-Jewish propaganda involving them being the ‘killers of Christ’.

I agree with VDH’s points though - and have posted the same analogy as he about a Japanese cultural center and (Shinto) shrine at Pearl Harbor; or perhaps a Mormon cultural center and temple at Mountain Meadows; a Russian cultural center at Katyn; I like the American cultural center and/or Christian church at Hiroshima analogy - that is a good one as well.