Nazis Carrying Jesus Portrait Disrupt Arkansas Holocaust Remembrance Event

[MineralMan]

Apparently, they think that Jesus would approve of their actions. Christians just acting on their faith, I guess, and persecuting Jews. But, hey, religion benefits society, some say. I would beg to differ.

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https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/05/10/nazis-carrying-jesus-portrait-disrupt-arkansas-holocaust-remembrance-event/

Nazis Carrying Jesus Portrait Disrupt Arkansas Holocaust Remembrance Event

People gathered in Arkansas recently to honor Holocaust survivors and those who lost their lives in the tragedy, but a group of White Supremacists carrying Nazi flags and Jesus symbols interrupted the event.

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Bearing crosses, a large portrait of Jesus and Christian and Nazi flags, the protester’s anti-Semitic signs also included one reading “YHWH has the oven preheated.”

But they didn’t even protest ADL (or provide any kind of rebuttal to the group’s claims). They protested a Holocaust remembrance event, denying the existence of an event that the main speaker literally risked his life to fight.

[Soxfan58]

1. What would a early 1st century Rabbi

Think about that?

[MineralMan]

3. Well, apparently, those racist assholes think he would approve,

since they were carrying his image with them. I wonder if they know that Jesus was a Jew, assuming that he existed at all?

Of course, those people are idiots, but they're Christians, all the same. Religions are often used to discriminate against, harm, and even kill people, in the name of their deities. This is just another example of that truth.

Not all Christians, of course, but some, to be sure. Many Nazis during WWII were also Christians.

Religion does not necessarily benefit society. Sometimes, religion gives over to unbelievable evil and cruelty. One has to ask about the existence of the omnipotent, omnipresent deities being worshiped, it seems to me. It seems to me that such actions belie that existence pretty dramatically.

Such things are another reason I am an atheist.

[k8conant]

2. Disgusting...

[MineralMan]

4. It's almost unbelievable, isn't it?

I do not know how people control their rage when confronted with such things. I truly don't.

[guillaumeb]

5. The fact the people are openly identifying as Nazis is a testament to the power of

supremacist thinking.

In the Chicago area, an open Nazi ran for Congress and received over 56,000 votes.

[Bretton Garcia]

11. Most of religion is inherently supremacist

1) Christianity and 2) Judaism claim to have the one, supreme God. Which tends to make them intolerant of others Judaism favored its own people only, from a narrow slice of the Mediterranean. Others were attacked and killed.

[guillaumeb]

12. Most tribalism is inherently supremacist.

The tribe over the "others".

[Bretton Garcia]

13. The twelve tribes of Israel for instance. And (onward) Christian soldiers

Does even contemporary religion entirely transcended such roots? To this day we seem to see in it an exaggerated antagonism toward legitimately defensive atheist organizations, states.

[guillaumeb]

14. A good question.

Can humans transcend an apparently integral part of our nature?

[Bretton Garcia]

15. Or? Is even Christian "transcendence" transcendent

....

[guillaumeb]

18. Or is it the illusion? eom

[uriel1972]

16. for most of history...

most people have not committed genocide... so yes, I believe we can be better than those that do.

[MineralMan]

17. Why, of course they can. And do.

Individual humans of all faiths, and of no faith at all, transcend the baser parts of human nature all the time. We recognize many of those with humanitarian and other awards. Others are only recognized by those who benefit from their transcendence.

Each of us has the ability to act in beneficial or detrimental ways. I know many who focus on beneficial actions. Don't you?

[Iggo]

6. Fuckin' team sports.

Hurray, Religion!

[uriel1972]

7. This is not a surprise...

Whatever you may think of the religion, or lack of, of the Nazi leadership the rank and file of Germany were Christians doing God's good work...

[Act_of_Reparation]

8. Something something China.

Atheist argle bargle. Oppression whuuuuuuuuuuuuur boing olé olé biscuit barrel.

[Major Nikon]

9. 11th Commandment!

[The Genealogist]

10. It isn't enough to be ignorant and hateful, they had to prove it publically

I am sure it was was completely lost on them that the guy in the portrait they were wielding was a Jewish man, if he did in fact exist at all in some form.