Bruce Anderson
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Yes: as far as the German churches, it was a relative handful of people like Dietrich Bonhoeffer who opposed Hitler openly and - to their shame (like the "ordinary" Germans) - Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy/leadership seemed to find it in their interests to either remain silent or even back Hitler.
I think the reason people agree on morality to the extent that they do is that a sense of right and wrong is imprinted in our nature. We are good at ignoring it or making it situational, though. For example, many who commit adultery find all kinds of ways to assuage their consciences, though if it were the same person's spouse who... (read more)
Both Sartre and Dostoevsky got to the heart of this issue: "Without God, all things are permitted." Ideas have consequences. Europe declared God dead in the wake of WWI. Within the intelligentsia, philosophy and science were summed up by the ideas of Nietzsche and Darwin.
It's just too convenient to label Hitler an evil madman, though that he was. The fact of the matter is, what Hitler did was take Nietzsche's philosophy of power and Darwin's survival of the fittest to their logical conclusions... "logical" as long as you accepted his Aryan supremacy theories. He was able to claw has way to power by convincing "ordinary people" that he could serve their... (read more)
Your comment deserves a better response than is possible in this forum. I will respectfully point you to Alvin Plantinga's book: "God, Freedom and Evil" as one of the best ways to address this issue.