It’s the most obedient time of year.
Well it’s that time of year again. There are lights on the trees, carolers in the street and the stores are packed. It can only lead us to think of one thing; Nazis.
Honestly if you think about it Nazis would love the modern Christmas. After all they campaigned to stop out all other religion and have uniformity within the populous. The way we are all forced to be cheery and the constant propaganda about how this is the “most wonderful time of the year” are pretty much right out of the Nazi playbook too. Yes Nazis would love the modern Chistmass
Now some of you might accuse me of running afoul of Godwin’s Law that states any argument on the internet will eventually result in a comparison to Hitler. But did you know that there is another law that bares Gowwin’s name. This is Godwin’s Law of Time Travel that states the more you travel through time the probability that Hitler won WWII approaches 1.
This months Member’s comic explores that issue. What would happen if some time traveler accidently causes the Nazis to win WWII and what they would see if they then returned to 2010.
So let all curl up with a good Nazi joke this holiday season. And when you are in the mall keep an eye on those elves, bet you’ll spot one give a “Sieg Heil!” salute to the fat man when they think your not looking.
Great comic, lousy comparison Christmas = Nazi’s.
How about you compare Nazi’s to the Oppression of Christians who opposed them and Jewish for being Jewish. Nazi’s were seeking a paganistic religion based upon their own psuedo-science of phrenology and the perfect human Aryan Beliefs. Just as bad as Melanin Theory we hear about today. The Japanese of the same time were just as bad with the cannabilism of allied prisoners on New Guinea, becuase they surrendered and they were starving and still had honor because they hadn’t surrendered.
Maybe you should consider that the area you live in is mainly Christian and the stores target that largest group for more sales. I always wish my Pagan friends (who follow it) a Happy Yule, Jewish a Happy Hanunaka, Kwanza a Happy Kwanza and Athiests, a Happy New Year and etc… If I don’t know its Happy Holidays. It is enough that we have to be seperated by our different beliefs, we don’t need to add rudeness to one religion to it.
Let me clarify. I was making a very silly comparison of Nazi = commercial Christmass to bring up the topic of Godwin’s Law and to then bridge to Godwin’s Law of Time Time Travel. Godwin’s Law is about stupid argument that compare things to Hitler instead of being logical.
I didn’t mean the argument to be taken seriosly.
In the words of Saturday Night Live’s Rosanna Dana, “Never Mind.”
but no you are right… the commercial nazi’s are trying to enslave you with Santa, just as the white man enslaved indians to work hard for glass trinkets! Santa… move the N to the end and you get “Satan”, he is dressed in red, coincidence? I think not!
The king is using shiny trinkets to turn Tiff into his love slave!
There is one good way to protect yourself. Love of money is root of evil, you must save yourself from it. So send your money to me, I might even annoint a bit of it with holy canola oil and sent it back purified so you can buy some food. Thank you. Remember to send the money!
Just a little reminder, the Nazis were in fact Christians. Not all Christians in Germany were Nazis, but the Nazis were Christian. The Wehrmacht soldiers had “God is With Us” (GOTT MIN UNS) on their belt buckles. The Catholic church and the pope of the day (Pious XII) turned a blind eye to the actions of the Nazis and fascists mostly because the Nazis threatened to sack the Vatican if the Vatican spoke out.
Pope Pious XII publicly remained neutral, although did privately shelter some Jews and did speak to a few officials about helping the Jews – although there were other Catholic officials who openly helped the Nazis. The net result was one of Catholic indifference to the Nazis. This policy only started to shift significantly when it became apparent that the Allies were going to win the war, but even then was rather limited until the Allies occupied Rome.
Sacking the Vatican was likely an empty threat because while most German Christians were not Catholic, most of the people in Italy, Hungary, and Romania were Catholic, and sacking the Vatican would likely have caused a popular uprising among Catholics against the Nazis and Fascists, particularly in Italy, Hungary, and Romania. Although the Nazis didn’t seem too concerned about popular uprisings, so maybe they would have done it anyway, despite the results.
Meanwhile in modern times more than a few Christians – particularly ones that have television shows on Fox News – are crying the blues about how the evil non-Christians are trying to destroy Christmas with “Happy Holidays” wishes and calling it the ‘Holliday Season’, despite this season being more than just Christmas (Yule, Hanunaka, Kwanza, etc.), and despite the cultural predominance of the Christian images for this season in North America. So Drowemos is closer to the truth than he may think.
However, it is also important to note that since the mid 20th century commercialism has overwhelmed any other meaning for this season in North America. Christian images may be common, but in fact Christian, Jewish, Pagan, or whatever festivals are practically footnotes to the commercialism of the season. It would be more accurate to call this the Santa Claus Season than any other specific name.
BTW – The modern interpretation of Santa Claus was an invention of Coca-Cola for an ad campaign, and it stuck.
Drowemos, aren’t you so glad you brought this up? 🙂
um…BOOBS
(wish I could see the comic…)