Quick rebuttal for those who say that it was Hitler who proposed separation of church & state:

[1monster]

[freshwest]

1. Who's the goof on the left? I know D. James Kennedy has been lying for years.

And Falwell did, as well as the rest of them.

[Bigmack]

2. It's the Xians who were the Nazis....

Hitler did say some things about religion............. "I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator... I am fighting for the work of the Lord.." "My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a
fighter." “I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.” "“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."

Lots more... http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm

And then there was Mussolini.

[amuse bouche]

3. Oh dear

that won't go over well

[Hekate]

8. Hitler used churches for evil like he used everything else. But some resisted

There were Lutheran pastors (i.e. Dietrich Bonhoffer, Martin Niemoller) who resisted the Nazis both individually and as a group. Some died in prison or camps, some survived.

There were nuns who ran Catholic orphanages and took in Jewish children and gave them baptismal names; boys whose voices had not yet broken could be dressed as young postulants -- my late father in law regularly brought extra food rations to at least one orphanage in Belgium; his own children had been taken by the Nazis, but other children hidden in Catholic orphanages could and did survive.

There were also priests who resisted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/oppositionrev1.shtml

The history of anti-Semitism in Europe is centuries-long and dismal, and without it Hitler could not have succeeded the way he did. But not everyone went along, which is why there is a memorial in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem Museum, dedicated to the Righteous Gentiles.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Jefferson and this asshat...

in the same picture is insulting. Yes, Jefferson had his faults, but he was a more literate and thinking man than 95% of the denizens of Capitol hill.

[Deep13]

5. Hitler?!

[coalition_unwilling]

6. Run a German-English translation program on the word "Gleichschaltung". That

should pretty much tell you every thing you need to know about Herr Hitler and religion.

[kwolf68]

7. A Hitler quote

“With Satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood".

...

[tk2kewl]

9. better rebuttle if anyone makes such an absurd claim:

STFU idiot!