Catholic clergy were butchered by Nazi Germany.
How is that Whitewashing history?
Hitler was religious and publicly decried atheism. See also:
Nazism and Religion,
Reductio ad Hitlerum.
Hitler was born to a practising Catholic
mother, and was
baptised in the
Roman Catholic Church.
Maybe it was being raised Catholic that made him crazy.
I don't believe Hitler was a Christian but I believe he used Christianity just like Republicans in America do today. They might not actually believe in Christianity either but they pretend to in order to win over supporters. Same way Republicans use Christianity today.
There are many many many people like you who want to distance Christianity from what German Christians did in the 1940's. I believe American Christians are capable of being manipulated in a similar way.
I tend to think race dictates behavior more than religion.
Some of the most benign people have also been Catholic, like Catholic Poles, Catholic Czechs, Catholic Swiss, Catholic Slovaks, Catholic Irish & Catholic Hungarians.
Hitler, Napoleon & Lyndon Johnson, 3 mass murderers, all had E1b1 genetic haplogroup, common in Ethiopians, Somalians, Moroccans, Algerians, Egyptians, Palestinians, Albanians,Serbians, Scilians, Jews, and Greeks.
So ever since Catholics stopped being Nazi's, what have they been up to?
For The Catholic Church, A Year Of Unending Clergy Abuse Revelations
2018 has been an explosive year for the Catholic Church, with renewed revelations of clergy sexual abuse and cover up from one coast to the other. Dioceses across the country continue to deal with the fallout of
a stunning grand jury report that detailed decades of abuse in Pennsylvania. For some parishioners and reform advocates, the church as a whole isn't taking the crisis seriously enough.
After the Boston abuse scandal in 2002, the Vatican approved a zero tolerance policy for clergy who abuse children. But McKiernan said there still aren't any mechanisms in place to hold bishops accountable, or those who cover up abuse. They still report directly to the Pope.
U.S. Bishops were expecting to vote on new accountability measures at a gathering in November, but the Pope ordered the effort to be delayed until February.
Either way, McKiernan is skeptical of internal accountability efforts. He's pushing for more external pressure, like the
investigation and report by the Illinois Attorney General this month detailing allegations against at least 500 priests the church had failed to disclose earlier.
Davin said she's more skeptical than optimistic that anything significant will come from the worldwide gathering of Catholic leadership at the Vatican in February.
"There's recognition I believe, something has to happen or there's going to be more to reckon with. Something has to be said, something has to be done, something has to come from the Pope," said Davin. "So is that what's going to happen in February? Let's see."
Davin said another fumbled response could plunge the church into an even deeper crisis.
Catholics will put up with just about anything from their leaders.