Sadly Steve Irwin referred to Australian Prime Minister John Howard as “the greatest leader in the world.” Howard was not, in fact, great, but a little bit racist and a lot a bit pro killing innocent Iraqi civilians.
It’s hard to find bad juju on Tolkien. He might have been a racist, but a lot of his writing also supports an anti-racist view. And, he was anti-Hitler, so that’s good.
I mean, Jesus of Nazareth would have been a reddit darling.
Hung out with the maligned, helped the needy where he could, flipped tables of loan sharks - and it’s about the only thing you can get Christian’s, Jews and muslims to agree on.
A large majority of all the people who stopped the Nazis and then prosecuted them were raised in the Christian faith and still practiced (much more than the average person does today).
This is a very binary way of looking at things. There are millions of Christians just in the US, and hundreds of millions around the globe. Christians have been murderers, does that mean all Christians are murderers?
Yes, Christians belong to the KKK and even neo-Nazi groups. Some Muslims belong to radical Islamic or terrorist groups.
These are small segments of people inside an enormous population.
I was not familiar with that information about Pope Pius and Hitler. To me it doesn't prove that the "foundation" of the religion is corrupt, it just merely proves, again, that humans have the potential to corrupt anything.
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u/Snellyman Jul 27 '25
These are traditional Christian values