Re: My Hate List (Revised)

Am Freitag000007, 07.02.2025 um 19:53 schrieb Physfitfreak:

On 2/7/25 12:46 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:

Prussia was actually Germany and was mainly populated by Lutheran Christians.

  And "Lutherans" did't give a shit about other people's religion? Hehe :)
 Your cro-magnon "Luther" was a signature German. Here's some of his quotes:
 - "Jews are full of the devil's feces which they swallow in like swine."
 - "We are at fault in not slaying the Jews."
 - "Jews' lineage and law must be accounted as filth."

Well, Germany didn't exist at the time of Luther and I wasn't talking about him, but about Prussia.
Prussia was the largest state in the huge conglomerate of tiny entities, which were fused together in 1871 into the then new 'German Empire'.
Prussia was mainly protestant (Luther himself was obviously not a Lutheran, but a catholic).
Now the German protestants were subject to a devastating war, which Austria waged against the roughly 1000 German countries, states, kingdoms and towns.
This was the so called 30-years war, which is regarded as among the bloodiest conflicts in human history.
It almost entirely wiped out the population of large parts of Prussia and other regions, but finally the protestants won (with help from Sweden).
The enemies of Prussia were mainly catholic countries like the Austrian empire, which sent the Generals Tilly and Wallenstein.
Anyhow: after that war Prussia decided, that religious wars are bad and that people should have the right to choose their believe (which included Judaism).
This helped Prussia to gain attention by huge streams of protestant immigrants, which had to flee from France, for instance (so called Huguenots).
After some time the country was filled with people again and Prussia decided, that an efficient state would be a good protection against future attacks.
That's why Prussia had a world class military, which was among the best of that era and won several wars, like against Austria, Denmark and France.
But antisemitism was totally alien to that country, because there freedom of believe was 'state doctrine'.
TH
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