A thought experiment
There is point to this down the line, but I need your help with a survey...
First of all a NECESSARY set of caveats:
I am NOT a Nazi sympathiser, nor have I ever been.
I am not a FASCIST sympathiser, nor have I ever been.
I will explain why below and it should be definitive. However…
I am also ABSOLUTELY NOT a Communist Sympathiser
I ABSOLUTELY HATE WITH A PASSION any religion that states that the raping of children is not a crime. This means that Judaism, which says it’s not a crime to rape children under age 3, and Islam, which says it’s ok for a 54 year old man to rape a 9 year old girl, are ANATHEMA to me. While I accept that not ALL supposed adherents of those religions are necessarily aware of these issues, it absolutely makes zero difference to me. If YOU profess to belong to a specific religion it is on YOU to know or not know what it is. I will treat you exactly as though you ARE aware of it, as you should be. Therefore, while it is possible an individual Jew or Muslim might not be a pedophile, ideologically, they all are.
I ABSOLUTELY don’t give a tiny speck of shit if that supposedly makes me an “anti-semite”. I am not, because I absolutely feel for the innocents, especially the thousands of children Israel is massacring in Gaza and intentionally shooting at to wound and kill toddlers, which is an uncontested fact.
Finally, and above all other considerations, there is the two overriding principles by which I have always lived my life to the best of my ability since I was a small child, consciously, and they are:
TRUTH ABOVE ALL
JUSTICE
You can’t have LOVE without Justice, not the real one, so, although it is to my mind true that God if we were to reduce it to one word IS LOVE, and it is true that Love encompasses, Truth AND Justice, in human terms, we very, very, very, very, often avoid truth and are especially bad at doing Justice too.
Right, now, give the above points it should be clear that, as concerns my two Polls below, I do NOT have a “gotcha” agenda trying to make the Nazis be the good guys, or exposing YOU as a Nazi, or a Jew hater, or whatever. I don’t care about any of that. This thought experiment is designed to measure something entirely, which will NOT affect you individually, since in any case, I have zero way of knowing who voted what. I will explain the purpose and the results after the polls are closed.
Second question:
By restored I simply mean that its use should be no more controversial than the Rebel flag of the US civil war, or the Kamikaze headbands of the Japanese WWII suicide pilots.
After you answer the poll, if it made you reflect on some aspects of why you feel as you do, please leave a comment giving more details.
Lastly, optional one you can also answer in the comments, what does the image below make you feel at first impact, as soon as you saw it (either in the preview of this post or now)? The more detailed you can be the more useful for the purposes of the experiment.
Thank you for your participation.
I find that symbol "uncomfortable" for the same reasons I find the red star and the so-called "star of David" "uncomfortable". All of those represent governments which were/are adamantly opposed to the real Catholic faith and Church. I most certainly sympathize with the German people with regard to their desire to be free from Bolshevism and from anything having to do with apostate-Israel. After all, my ethnic makeup includes a truly lovely, truly Catholic, very German grandmother. Even so, I am NOT in sympathy with any of those forms of government, all of which are "socialists" and are therefore, as one of the (real) Popes told us, inherently evil. Israel is an additional problem, of course. As St. Paul told us, "...they are the enemies of the entire world."
That symbol represents the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of German patriots who prevented the entirety of Europe from being overrun by Bolshevism. It makes me feel sad that their profound sacrifice, love of their deity (Gott Mit Uns) and their people and their freedom will likely never be known or realized by the vast majority of Earth's population.
It also reminds me of the four seasons, ursa major circling polaris and Mangi, the sign for temples in Japan and Korea. Hope that contributes something to the experiment.