The Holocaust, Hamas, and a Post-Christian West

As Holland describes, after WWII the Western moral imagination became fixated upon Hitler and the Nazis as the embodiment of evil rather than Jesus and the saints as the embodiment of good. National Socialism, as the first ideology to really attempt to tear out Christianity root-and-branch from Western society, sought to revert the beatudinal inversions Christ preached: Hitler and millions of other fascists were convinced Darwinism and modern science proved that it is, in fact, better to oppress than be oppressed, victimize than be victimized, and crucify Christ rather than be Christ crucified. For Europe and America, already secularizing, Auschwitz & Dachau came to embody Hell without reference to Heaven in a way that permanently reshaped the Western imagination. Read Full Article »