Scapegoating Humanity

After World War I, Adolf Hitler decided he needed a scapegoat, so he blamed all of Germany’s problems on the Jews. By doing so, he was simply following in the footsteps of the Christian God, who blamed all of the sins of humanity on the humanity that God was said to have “intelligently designed” to commit such sins. God also then freely choose to be so angry at said humanity for said sins that he decided he must first water board them all from the planet, and then mutilate his own son for His own divine failure to create a line of human robots that could be bribed with heaven or threatened with hell to always "obey." Obey what, you ask? No one knows, since he didn't give Moses his "ten commandments" until hundreds of thousands of years later, after he had divided everyone with different languages for daring to work together, and then showed up as Jesus to modify all of his own divine rules in a way that no one can agree on. (and this, the CHristian insists, is a "good plan.") For Hitler, the Jews were an easy scapegoat in a country that was 99% Christian at the time. Christians see themselves as the new “chosen people,” which makes the old “chosen people” a “rejected” choice. Without Christianity, in other words, the Holocaust would have been impossible. Germany, which had been a veritable garden of Eden among the nations of Europe prior to the War, was so impoverished by the sanctions and reparations after the war that people were sometimes forced to resort to cannibalism; which ironically reflected their weekly religious practice. In short, Hitler concluded it was NOT the fault of Kaiser Wilhelm II who blundered a war he should have never started, but those insidious “Christ killers” who had, like Judas, betrayed the whole Christian nation of Germany. In this way, God who created the devil he decided to let loose on humanity, shifts the blame from himself and the devil he created to humanity itself, who God had "ingelligently designed" to prefer the lures of the devil to the threats and commands of a god. So why was it so incredibly easy for Hitler and his cronies to scapegoat a religious minority living within Germany for all of Germany’s woes? As Mark Twain wrote, it is “strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him.” Because of this infallible truth, which every Christian on the planet is required to live in compete denial of, or be roasted like a marshmallow for eternity for allowing for the possibility of an interpretation of God different from their own (even though not a single Christian holds the exact same concept of “God” in their head than any other Christian, which they are likewise required to deny is true), it was easy – because that is exactly what Christianity says God does with humanity as a whole – blames humanity for who God created humanity to be. As Twain sums up again: “The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.”