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Have we really gotten to the point where being a Christian is considered un-American?

Hmm...
Goebbels, although later embracing a weird mixture of neo-paganism, was of fervent Catholic extraction...and so was Hitler according to some disparate quotations...not to mention Catholic monsignor Tiszo, premier of collaborationist Slovakia and the slant towards authoritarian Catholicism of the collaborationist Vichy government...
Could it be that the rubber band of war propaganda never stopped snapping back?
Of course, you cannot in the same sentence blame THEIR religiosity AND safeguard YOURS.
Oh yes, Catholics...while here we're talking about Quakers, Baptists, Calvinists...as if anyone on the streets could really tell religious radicals apart.
Much as you cannot in the same sentence berate white supremacy as heralded by fascist regimes AND pretend at home it was all of a different sort.
Of course, my friend isn't really a thief: juvenile hijinx; my enemy is a vile thief who steals other people's belongings...
Too bad it doesn't work in the long run.

The role that Christianity, and in partidular the Catholic Faith played in the third reich is centred in considerable controversy.

One of the first churchmen to oppose the Third Reich was Clemens August von Galen, the Bishop of Munster. Von Galen had opposed Hitlers program of euthenasia for sick, crippled and feebleminded people. We also need to remember that Pope Pius XI had the encyclical “With Burning Sorrow" read from every pulpet in Germany.

I would say that the fact that many Nazi Collaborators in places like Croatia, Slovakia and elsewhere were catholics and even Catholic clergymen, the church was by and large hostile towards Nazi ideology.

Though hostile towards the Christian faith, Hitler did not oppose attempts to recruite religiously oriented people to join in his cause. He was more than willing to accept the support of christians and others who were willing to give him support.

It also stands to reason that Alfred Rosenberg made the case for the "New Religion of the Blood" which opposed Christian altrusm. Himler actually created a religion of his own within the context of the SS. It is well documented that Hitler and his collegues were believers in the occult. This may be why so many pagan symbols were incorporated in Nazi imagry. For example, the Swastika is of Hindu origen and was the symbol of the sun.

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/litu...en_en.html

http://www.avalanchepress.com/WithBurningSorrow.php