inappropriate.

First, let me get this Donald Trump issue out of the way: If you’re thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler or Nazis when you talk about Trump. Or any other politician.

My Facebook timeline and Twitter feed have been blowing up lately. And whenever that happens, it’s almost always because someone’s making comparisons to Hitler or Nazis or the Holocaust somewhere. Sure enough, as Trump pontificates about immigrants or ethnic or religious minorities, with scarcely less subtlety than certain early 20th-century political aspirants in Europe did, people on the Internet feel compelled to ask me what I think about it.

Why? Simple: Because 25 years ago, when the Internet was still a pup, I came up with Godwin’s Law. In its original form, Godwin’s Law goes like this: “As an online discussion continues, the probability of a reference or comparison to Hitler or Nazis approaches 1.”

[Trump says he’s not bothered by comparisons to Hitler]

Invoking Hitler or Nazis (or World War II or the Holocaust) is common in public life these days, both in the United States and around the world, and it has been for quite a while. Back in 1990, I set out — half-seriously and half-whimsically — to do something about it.

Especially this:

We can not bicker among ourselves. We have to stand together and vote for Democrats at every level. I don't give a fuck what type of Democrat we elect.

K&R

It is time to pay very close attention to everything ever said by a candidate and their entire history. Tolerating things said to simply generate a headline, press event or social media sound bite is exactly why we have the great orange plague (gop, trump, 45...).

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel." - Patrick Henry

"Sure he is bad, but Hitler killed 6 million people"

As I pointed out in another thread, Hitler did not arise in a vacuum and all of a sudden 6 million people were gassed. It was only after he acieved full power which took awhile

So do we need a Godwins law that applies to the Hitler of 1933-1939?

It was incremental, as an example, the first people the Nazis tried to exterminate were mentally disabled people. They learned the gas chambers practicing on them. And yes they separated them from their families, killed them, and then lied to their families about the cause of death

And another point to be said is: it doesn't take the gas chamber to eliminate Trumps undesirables:
- you can let the NRA flourish and the gun slaughter continue
- you can let people die in Hurricanes
- you can let cops gun down unarmed civilians
- you can take away health care and pre-existing condition coverage

Trump only cares about money. He wants poor people to die in his holocaust

And you are right Louis c, if we allow it to happen, knowing history then shame on us

as strenuously as I can. Godwin was set aside on Nov 9th 2016. The orange bastard is evil incarnate and must be stopped by any means necessary.

First off, thanks to all who recommended this page. It is heartening that so many people here at DU agree on this point. Hopefully, you can use these thoughts to convince persuadable friends to join our cause.

I have found additional info on this subject:

<snip>Romans 13 has a history of being used by government officials in defense of their decisions or edicts. The Rev. Rob Saler, executive director for the Center for Pastoral Excellence at Indianapolis' Christian Theological Seminary, said the verses were used by Lutherans in Nazi Germany to justify supporting Adolf Hitler.

"Romans 13, for a long time, has been appealed to in an incorrect way, as a justification for 'Obey the laws, no matter what,'" he said. "Whether they're just or not. I don’t want to be too extreme, but ... in Nazi Germany, Lutherans, for the most part, supported Hitler and they used Romans 13 to validate that."

In an interview with The Washington Post, John Fea, a professor of American history at Messiah College at Pennsylvania, said the verse was also used to support slavery in the 1840s and 1850s.

"It is invoked by defenders of the South or defenders of slavery to ward off abolitionists who believed that slavery is wrong," he said. "I mean, this is the same argument that Southern slaveholders and the advocates of a Southern way of life made.”<snip>

Link to entire article;
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sessions-cites-bible-verse-to-defend-trumps-immigration-policy-raises-christians-ire/ar-AAyIl74?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP17

So much of their 'doctrine' is from the Old Testament. The Old Testament was written before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth - 'The Christ'. Since a Christian is one who supposedly follows the teachings of Christ, and since the Old Testament was written before Christ, then logically it really isn't part of the Christian cannon.

Then there is the fact that none of the New Testament (that part of the Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus was written by him. It was written by various folks who had either been apostles or friends of apostles or friends of friends of apostles. But the main thrust of the New Testament was teaching love, acceptance, love one another, be good to one another, take care of the poor, the downtrodden, the foreigner, and so on. None of which is practiced by modern day Evangelicals!

I could go on for pages. But you get my drift.

Today is Sunday. how will parishioners act today as they enter their houses of worship.

Is the God they worship merciful and is it a commandment to treat others as you would yourself?

Let's see if all our religious zealots of every religion and denomination really "practice what they preach.'

You're doing it right now. -- Amy Siskind

I'm a trade unionist. I would have been rounded up and imprisoned very, very early during the Third Reich.

Link;
https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/trade-unions-and-nazi-germany/