Not only do they have a flimsy case, but they are idiots and slime balls, kind of like most democrats.
In 800 the Germans had been Christian for closing on 500 years. The only thing that 800 is famous for is the crowning of Karl der Gross as Roman Emperor. How this correlates to the introduction of Christianity in that year is a great mystery.
Today, the NYT's Editorial Page opined as follows:
The nation may never again see a president with Bill Clinton's natural political talents, his instinctive grasp of policy and his breadth of understanding of governmental issues.
Clinton's Nazi slur of Christianity show that his "instinctive grasp" and "breadth of understanding" are terribly overrated.
No sh*t, Sherlock!
Clue #1...Arrested and persecuted Christian leaders.
Clue #2...Nazis encouraged revival of Teutonic supernatural symbolism.
Clue #3...No Bingo games at Party rallies....
This silly notion hardly merits rebuttal. If it wasn't for the dirt-dumb historical cluelessness cultivated by American public education it would scarcely be necessary to even discuss this farcical issue.
This is the common view among the liberal elite who control the educational apparatus in this country, and it is completely bogus when exposed to the light of any objective analysis. And yet, the myth of Christian complicity in the Holocaust remains accepted history to this day.
The reason is that it is the foundation upon which we in the west should never question Israeli policy, or the dollars that flow to Israel from the US. We are responsible for the Holocaust, don't you know, we OWE it to them. If you question Israeli policies or oppose the massive foreign aid to Israel, you are as guilty as the Nazis.
This is the message from America's media and Americans have bought it hook, line and sinker.
Close but no cigar. Passover celebrates "... celebrating the Exodus from slavery ... death skipped Israelite homes..." There were no Jews for another ~1500 years. All Jews are Israelites, but only a small percentage of Israelites are Jews.
Passover is a legitimate holiday for many Christians, but few Christians seem to understand Biblical history. (Click my Profile for details.)
1. Hitler's lust to destroy the Jews was not based on religion. What it was based on is really pretty mysterious; there is a black hole at the bottom of the Hitler phenomenon that only the Last Judge is ever going to penetrate. See Ron Rosenbaum's impressive book, Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evil . Though I would probably be considered too "liberal" by some posters here (in my own mainline denomination I'm a raving conservative), I think that the most likely explanation is that he sold his shrivelled soul to Satan. And I mean that pretty literally.
2. Traditional Christian anti-Judaism did not call for the murder of Jews, though it sometimes led to it when mixed with "urban legend" blood libels and crowd hysteria (sometimes manipulated by rulers who wanted to get rid of their creditors). Most Christian teachers believed that the Jews would turn to Christ before the Last Day, so that destroying the Jews would be against God's plan.
3. Nevertheless, the tradition that the Jews having rejected and killed the Messiah, were rejected by God in turn, contributed to mistreatment of Jews in two ways:
(a) It gave the Jews an almost completely negative profile, thus encouraging Christians to dislike and despise them;
(b) It taught Christians that until the Last Times the Jews would suffer under God's constant punishment. It was this latter belief, I think, that made German Christians so passive in the face of genocide: they had been taught to see Jewish suffering as normal and natural.
4. The Christianity of many Protestant Germans in the '30's was pretty attenuated. Widespread inroads of liberal theology and a long history of state domination of the Protestant Churches had made their mark. Just before WWI, the big issue in German Protestantism was whether the Apostles Creed should be eliminated from worship, since "nobody believes that virgin birth and bodily resurrection stuff anymore."
5. To account for German acquiescence and willing collaboration in the destruction of Jews, you have to consider the years of unchallenged anti-Semitic propaganda the Nazis bombarded them with after '33. Exactly the pattern Arafat has followed in the PA: take power by appealing to all sorts of frustrations and fears, then control the media and turn the population into a murdering horde by continuous indoctrination. The churches were a weak and uncertain influence in comparison, by and large.
6. The rejectionist view of Judaism prevalent for a long time in the Christian tradition is now widely seen even by thoroughly traditional Christians to have been contrary to Scripture. Evangelical Christian Zionists are not the only Christians who have rethought this. "Mainliners" in the tradition of the Swiss Protestant theologian Karl Barth have too. The present-day anti-Jewish forces in Christianity are the out-and-out liberals.
7. Hitler saw more clearly than Christians mostly did that Christianity and Judaism are inextricably linked. His racial hatred of Jews spilled over to a hatred of the Jewish blight of Christianity. Christians have reason to be abashed that an enemy of God saw this before we did.
But a huge number of the ordinary Nazis, the ones who just went along with the Pogrom, and tossed the Jews into the ovens, were Christians. The ones who planned it all might have been Pagans, but all Christians were not always the good guys in history...