I've been watching some shows about WWII lately. I find it amazing (and sad), that people can be coerced by our governments to hate other people we've never met, just because our governments have an agenda that involves their annihilation.
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Propaganda is a powerful weapon.
bigpawbullets
Level 9
June 4, 2018
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I wake each day to propaganda written to persuade. Believe the lies or they will watch you burn!
Although it was not WWll related, I am reminded by a line in Full Metal Jacket.. where Joker is being interviewed himself for Stars & Stripes..he says something like.....
"So happy to have the opportunity to come to Vietnam to meet beautiful interesting and culturally diverse people...and kill them"
War is Hell..until we forget for a while ..and then do it all over again..
Hitchens
Level 8
June 4, 2018
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And that is new because did not happened 5,000 years ago.
GipsyOfNewSpain
Level 9
June 4, 2018
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Spanish Gipsy!
I can always count on you to add a touch of reality to things!
You mean like our current regime against anyone of color or different religious beliefs?
Kimberclimbs
Level 5
June 4, 2018
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I am a WWII history nut. I don't know everything tho. I've read books, watched documentaries, listen to music about it, and watch historically accurate movies about it. If it isn't historically accurate, I watch something else. But year WWII was a bad deal. Depending on source, 1.1-1.5 million people died at Auschwitz alone! Hitler had around 5-6 million people murdered (depending on source). He did fight during during WWI, but his only confirmed kill was himself. He should have done that long before April 30th 1945. Hate to say it... But back on track, and I hate comparing him to anyone, does this sound like our president, and how he is trying to blame Muslims for terrorism (no white Catholic ever did...), and how illegal Mexicans are taking our jobs? Just replace Muslim with anyone of non- aryan traits (even tho he didn't fit the exact definition himself), and replace Mexican with Jew. Hitler took people with people that had disabilities to concentration camps. The president mocks them. I know he said he wasn't talking about the reporter, but he's full of shit. If you read the book, you'll learn to save your life, and humanity. How can you find the knowledge if you don't? All of history is there for you, but most people don't care, or bother. They'd rather listen to top of the pops, or care about what celebrities broke up. We have much bigger priorities. I was recommended a series of books by Winston Churchill. I think it's a 7 series collection about how how WWII started, and what happened after. It's supposed to be very good, but longgggggg.
TheGreatShadow
Level 9
June 4, 2018
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And upholds Religion ? Much of that war was religiously inspired, but not mentioned much ?
VAL3941
Level 8
June 4, 2018
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Most people have been killed in the name of god than for any other reason. Hitler was Roman Catholic almost until the end of his life. He converted to another religon where he threw out all Jewish pieces of the Bible.
@TheGreatShadow Hitler didn’t kill in the name of God any more than Stalin and Pol Pot killed in the name of atheism. Citing the atrocities committed by politicians does nothing to advance the argument for the doctrine of atheism.
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Yes, and the catholic church supported him !
@WilliamFleming Are you sure? Were they in fact inspired by a hate for religious doctrines and all religions stood for, both morally and politically? Some on this site asked the question about having the faith to be agnostic or atheist? Political scientists with a penchant for the psychology behind the history have suggested that religion may have been an important catalyst in those seemingly non-religious wars. No one cause is my view.
@josephr yep. Pops pious xxii was a nazi.
@TheGreatShadow And i still read how some religious people still blame Jews for Jesus' Crucifixion. And then there were those holier than thou countries which refused to let Jews escaping the Nazi Holocaust into their beloved homelands. Of course that had nothing to do with their religion, the fact that those escaping were Jews; LOL.
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