Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoGermans collecting church bells to smelt down for the war effort. Libeň Bridge, Prague, July 1942sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1219
arrow-up1219imageGermans collecting church bells to smelt down for the war effort. Libeň Bridge, Prague, July 1942sh.itjust.worksSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 year agoStealing church bells to make weapons of war, just how Jesus would have wanted. Poetic in a sad sense, really.
minus-squareFiveMacs@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agothe churches should have paid taxes then if they wanted to not have the government take their own stuff back.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoI’m not a supporter of tax free churches, but to say that merits the state plundering these ancient bells for their war machine sounds a bit like Trump saying countries that don’t pay their NATO fees should be invaded by Putin.
minus-squareGoldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThe nazis never gave a fuck about any religion
Stealing church bells to make weapons of war, just how Jesus would have wanted. Poetic in a sad sense, really.
the churches should have paid taxes then if they wanted to not have the government take their own stuff back.
I’m not a supporter of tax free churches, but to say that merits the state plundering these ancient bells for their war machine sounds a bit like Trump saying countries that don’t pay their NATO fees should be invaded by Putin.
The nazis never gave a fuck about any religion