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DamienMarieAtHope , 7 months ago to random

Adolf Hitler got a lot of his racist ideas from America, so it was the old USA that was the inspiration for actual Nazism...

gnutelephony , 7 months ago

@DamienMarieAtHope indeed, and the beliefs in America were a product of Calvinism. Our poor luck that worst of that sick belief system, Dutch / English pilgrim Calvinists, clawed ashore up here, rather than just Spanish Catholic conquistadors. These Pilgrims declared themselves the "new Israelites" and went on to relive the old testament book of Joshua thru deliberate mass killing.

gnutelephony , 7 months ago

@DamienMarieAtHope as awful as the conquistadors were in Latin America, and even though they started much earlier, too, there are many millions of native peoples alive there today. Some countries even have had indigenous led governments in recent times, if only far too briefly, too. Far fewer survived the Calvinist inspired genocide here in North America.

gnutelephony , 7 months ago

@microblogc @DamienMarieAtHope I did not mean to suggest they were saints ;). But there was a key difference. The Catholic concept is that every person is open to salvation and has a soul that can be "potentially saved". Calvinists, especially the extreme ones that normalize genocide, believe only a special pre-chosen "elect" are saved by grace alone, and ultimately all others can be treated as damned soulless subhuman animals, lesser than them, and can be freely killed as desired.

gnutelephony , 7 months ago

@microblogc @DamienMarieAtHope hence Conquistadors killed for greed and power. A Calvinist can kill for pleasure without guilt or remorse. They are the perfect capitalists, and explains much about modern Capitalism emerging out of Calvinism, too...