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He has more to say elsewhere in the program, and I'm sure not all of it is agreeable to every viewer, but this segment is pretty solid. Since it's being said by a mainstream figure, users might find it useful to share with friends.What are the events? Who are the people who we treat with reverence? What are you actually not allowed to make fun of? What is blasphemy in modern America?
Those are the questions you ask if you are trying to understand what our operative religion is. What's the religion of our leaders? Again, it's not a conventional religion necessarily. It's not Torah Judaism or rabbinic Judaism or Evangelical Christianity or Catholic Christianity.
It's the actual religion, the real religion, the set of beliefs that we treat with reverence.
Well, it just so happens there was a religious ceremony ongoing today in the United States Capitol complete with very recognizable religious iconography symbolism. You may not even have known this was happening, but it was happening today as part of an eight-day celebration of remembrance of the Holocaust. The period in the 1930s and 40s where the German government, the Nazi government murdered, in addition to a lot of other people a whole bunch of Jews. And that ended in part because the United States sent troops to Europe, millions of troops to Europe to defeat the German government. And with the help of the Soviets, our allies at the time, we did that. And in the process of doing that, over a quarter million Americans, American men, were killed, trying to stop the Nazi government from doing the evil things that it was doing.
A quarter million -- more than -- American men died fighting the Nazis. But in today's ceremony in the Congress, there was no mention of them. There was instead this. Watch.
[Embedded video of crowd seated in the Capitol's Emancipation Hall. An announcer speaks.] Ladies and gentlemen, a museum leadership program has included more than 72,000 US military members. Through examination of the Holocaust, they gain insight into their own professional and individual responsibilities. The candlelighters are members of the United States Army Third Infantry Regiment, the Old Guard.
[The first in a line of soldiers approaches the microphone with a candle.] I am Sergeant Ethan Ahtonen. I remember. [Soldier lights a giant menorah. Video ends.]
That is a current uniformed US military member from the Old Guard, the Third Infantry Regiment, which is you know ever present at our public events in Washington, saying -- lighting a candle at the menorah -- and saying "I remember". No explanation of "I remember". I remember what? What are we remembering here?
And we do have a sense that it's -- we're not remembering the American soldiers who liberated Dachau for example. We're not remembering the quarter million American men who joined a war they had nothing to do with inherently. It wasn't taking place in North America, it was taking place in Europe. And the dispute was over Poland and Czechoslovakia. And they sacrificed their lives to defeat the Nazi government that was murdering Jews and a lot of other people, Poles and Russians and gypsies and Czechs and lots lots of people, a lot of Jews as well.
But they gave their lives to stop that, but we're not remembering them. We're remembering only the victims of one specific ethnicity during these eight days of remembrance. As distinct from the day of remembrance that we also have that's also enshrined in American law in January.
So there's a total of 9 days of remembrance of one group of victims in a war that killed tens of millions of people globally. Tens and tens and tens of millions. The numbers are actually not even clear. So many people died. We're not exactly sure how many died, but many tens of millions died, including close to a half million Americans, over a quarter million in Europe fighting this Nazi regime, not remembered.
So that is not to disrespect the Jewish victims of the Holocaust or of the Second World War. Of course not. Merely to note that in this country only one group gets to be remembered and remembered with grave solemnity by uniformed members of our military who take no credit for ending this Holocaust.
So that doesn't make any sense. I mean, if you didn't know the backstory in any of this and someone wrote that down and told you, you'd be like, "What do you, that doesn't, what?" And it almost seems like there's a kind of guilt implied in this, which is a little weird. There are countries where, you know, that might be appropriate. This is not one of them because again, this was the country that helped liberate people from those camps and fought the government that built those camps. We're the good guys. What is this?
It doesn't make any sense except when you see it in the only terms in which it makes sense which is as a civic religion. Which is what it is, and it comes complete with blasphemy laws.
What he says bears some similarity to common revisionist arguments. Faurisson once wrote about the Holocaust as a "secular religion": https://codoh.com/library/document/the- ... holocaust/
The Holocaust Encyclopedia includes an entry on this same point, ending with a quote from Gilad Atzmon who called the Holocaust "the new Western religion": https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/conce ... st-as/797/