It’s my impression – though I should do more research, I might be wrong – that in many areas being actively Catholic would do it; though if you didn’t insist on, say, going to a church the Nazis had declared shut down they wouldn’t come after you just because you’d been born into a Catholic family; which was indeed a difference from the situation for Jews, Romani, known homosexuals, and the obviously differently abled, none of whom could get out of it by keeping their heads low.
But it’s also my impression that a lot of Catholics think they have to be actively Catholic, or risk hellfire.
Their plan was to decapitate the leadership of Poland and leave the common citizenry as slaves. This marked the clergy, as well as university professors, for death.
In Catholic Austria, France, etc. no such extreme plan was in force. In fact, the pro-Nazi Slovakia regime was lead by an ordained priest, and a Serb-killing death camp in Croatia run by a friar )(of the Franciscan order at that! I mean, the Dominicans sure, but Franciscans?)
The American religious right would love to score points “atheist = Nazi,” but the Nazis had a lot of help from Roman Catholics, Ukrainian Orthodox, etc. in the Jew-hating dept.
While I’d love for it to be some double entendre, my guess is that they are simply the third person to follow through on a ButGod license plate. “But God” is apparently a very religious thing in some circles.
It’s even the title of a book (please don’t waste your money on it)
I’m not sure how likely that is; but if it did happen, he could always switch to ROHM. Who remembers the leader of the SA these days? Even a history major would probably think the driver is a bad speller who likes Italy.
Yeah, that’s how I keep reading it (it’s like a visual earworm). In fact to eradicate it, I need to find the car with that plate in a grocery store parking lot, then wait for the elderly couple that owns it.
I’ll wink at the innocent old guy and say “It’s true, isn’t it?” “What’s that, young man?” “You are THE BUTT GOD!!!” . . . [/loud Thor voice]
Well, in my wonderful state, the DMV person types it into a computer, and it spits out wether our not it gets approved. Clerk has no say. You can even go to the DMV site and try out myriads of combinations to see if they are available or approved.
You have to write “meaning” under your requested text. (You ask for 3 in case they reject the first and/or second request.) Which means that they factor intent into the request.
I find that interesting because you’d think that the reason you want the plate means less than how others will react to it (and potentially be offended by it). My only guess is that sometimes people are dumb enough to explain on the form itself why it might be offensive.
Or they have no idea that something like “retard” is offensive.
In my work with senior housing I cannot count the number of incredibly offensive things clients have said that they seem to really have no idea are offensive. Racial, religious, disability, language, you name it.
