All the things you can critique him for, as well as the church in general, and you choose the thing that children were basically forced to participate in under a fascist regime? The dude clearly wasn’t a Nazi and he was a kid.
Where did you read I was criticizing B16 for being a Hitler youth? All I said was that his - definitely forced - stint there gave him the experience to deal with fascist authoritarian figures.
B16 should be at the receiving end of many criticisms - not least of which choosing to be part of, and ultimately lead a disgusting religious cult. But being forced to join the Hitler Youth is not one of them.
They should unmothball Benedict XVI: he’s uniquely qualified to deal with Donald Trump, being a former Hitler Youth.
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Where did you read I was criticizing B16 for being a Hitler youth? All I said was that his - definitely forced - stint there gave him the experience to deal with fascist authoritarian figures.
B16 should be at the receiving end of many criticisms - not least of which choosing to be part of, and ultimately lead a disgusting religious cult. But being forced to join the Hitler Youth is not one of them.
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they would need to do more than that, since he is dead.
Surely he can be resurrected: the Christian faith is big on magical stuff like that.