Christians and the Holocaust

If the matter weren't so serious, it would almost be fun to watch the Catholic Church try to tamp down the old anti-Semitic fires. That pesky old bigotry keeps coming back to haunt the Church, despite the ad campaigns promising "Now: Less Anti-Semitism!"

But let's face it: The visible figurehead of a Pope makes it far too easy to blame the Catholic Church alone for anti-Semitism. Only a third of Nazi Germany, for example, was Catholic. Almost all of the rest of Germany followed the vicious anti-Semite Martin Luther.

America's right wing loves to whine about the media's alleged left-wing, anti-Christian bias. And yet it can't be quite as anti-Christian as they say. Because one way or another, Christian anti-Semitism has gotten a pretty free ride when it comes to Holocaust discussions.

Most folks pin the Holocaust on an evil Adolf Hitler, and a few of his thugs.

Yep. even the allegedly liberal media seems to find it uncomfortable to examine the way Christianity fertilized the garden in which Hitler worked.

But I suppose we can all find undercovered stories ...