Posted on 06/11/2020 11:36:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week, during some of the race-related protests, President Trump famously held up a Bible in one hand outside of an historic D.C. church that rioters had set afire.
Actress Debra Messing (Will and Grace) then sent out a tweet, in which she showed Trump with the Bible and next to it she juxtaposed a picture of Hitler supposedly holding a Bible. She had the caption: “A dog whistle to white nationalists and Nazis.” She also declared, “This is no accident!”
Of course, the picture of Hitler holding a Bible is a total fake. Furthermore, putting a Bible in Hitler’s hands is totally incorrect on every front.
I realize that actors and actresses are not necessarily well-read when it comes to history. But it’s important to be clear about this. If there is any book that Hitler did not approve of, it was the Bible.
The leader of the Nazi Party rued the day that Christian missionaries ever set foot in his beloved Germany.
One of the best books on Adolf Hitler was written by the history professor and author, Dr. Richard Weikart. He is perhaps best known for his book, From Darwin to Hitler. He also wrote an important book a few years ago called, Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich. What was Hitler’s religion? Short answer: Nature red with tooth and claw---not the Christian God by a long shot.
Just a few quotes from Weikart’s book on Hitler and the Bible show how ignorant Messing’s tweet was, not to mention deceptive.
• “Since Hitler was a radical anti-Semite, his characterization of Christianity as a Jewish plot was about as harsh an indictment as he could bring against Christianity.”• “He saw the Old Testament as the antithesis of everything he stood for.”
• “He regretted that Finnish people’s religiosity was based on the Bible because it was permeated with Jewishness. According to Hitler, religious people like the Finns, who during long winters seek their religion in the Bible ‘must become mentally crippled’ and fall into ‘religious delusion.’”
• “Hitler lamented that the Bible had been translated into German, because this made Jewish doctrines readily available to the German people. It would have been better, he stated, if the Bible had remained only in Latin, rather than causing mental disorders and delusions.”
• The “Fuhrer” declared, “The idiocy of the Christian doctrine of salvation is for our time completely unusable….That even today one views the Christian doctrine of salvation as giving direction through a difficult life is completely incomprehensible.”
• “Many SS members followed [Heinrich] Himmler’s example and encouragement to withdraw from the churches, and Hitler lauded them for their anti-church attitude.”
• “Hitler harshly castigated Christianity for not supporting his eugenics and racial ideology.”
This is just a smattering of anti-Bible examples found in Weikart’s book, showing that Hitler had no tolerance for Christianity (although he sometimes hid that antipathy for political purposes).
Hitler denied that Jesus did miracles, that He was divine, that His death was anything but martyrdom, and that He rose from the dead. Hitler even denied that Jesus was Jewish.
I shared the article about Debra Messing’s ignorant tweet with Dr. Weikart (who has also written on the tendentious Trump-Hitler comparisons) and asked him if he would provide me a statement or two for this column.
Weikart told me, “Hitler rejected the Old Testament as a book of Jewish provenance, and he scorned the apostle Paul, who wrote about half the New Testament, as a sneaky Jewish rabbi who corrupted Christianity from its earliest phases. He liked a few Bible stories that corresponded with his worldview, such as Jesus driving the Jews out of the temple because of their greed, or Jesus saying that he had come not to bring peace, but a sword. However, he forthrightly criticized Jesus’ teaching about turning the other cheek. He also once stated, ‘The New Testament is full of contradictions.’ Clearly Hitler did not have much respect for the Bible.”
Furthermore, I asked Weikart if the German people prior to the rise of Hitler were steeped in the Bible---as many of them had been in previous centuries.
He answered, “Most German Protestants (and Protestantism was in the majority in Germany) by the twentieth century did not view the Bible as historically (or doctrinally) accurate, because they had embraced liberal theology, which denied that the biblical text was accurate.”
Of course, Messing’s silly tweet overlooks the fact that numerous U.S. presidents have been photographed holding Bibles. In fact, a photograph of Bill Clinton holding a Bible in front of the exact same church resurfaced recently.
It’s not surprising that the photo of Hitler holding a Bible in Messing’s tweet was fake. Hitler and his ardent followers had no use for that book.
I think these people talking about dog whistles are the only ones actually hearing them. And I think it’s all in their heads.
It’s time we appropriate the term “dog whistle”... because the left dog whistles domestic terrorists all fuking day long. Excuse my french.
Hitler’s view of religion was about the same as the American left.
“The Mohammedan religion would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?” “Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers — already, you see, the world had fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing was Christianity ! — then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies heroism and which opens the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so.” - Adolf Hitler
According to the Babylon Bee, Episcopalians have no idea what that book is.
She’s a bubble headed puppet. She thinks when the revolution comes she’ll be installed as one of the elites. She’ll be disappointed when she’s assigned to some state factory to put tighten screws on some widget for 10 hours a day while wearing her grey dress and head scarf before going home to her on room apartment and having a can of tuna for dinner.
I had no idea that Bill Clinton was an Episcopalian.
I do believe Hitler was a baptized Catholic. And what is it the RCC proclaims? “Once a Catholic always a Catholic”.
I think the Babylon Bee has a picture of Hitler holding up a Bible too. Maybe that’s Bill’s address book of his “lady friends”.
Never heard that one. I am RC.
When I studied the Holocaust years ago, I saw a photo of Hitler with a bible. It was in his early years when he was gaining power by stealth.
Look it up
He was a baptized Catholic and had his confirmation in the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz, Austria
He was confirmed in 1904.
I was referring to “Once a Catholic always a Catholic”.
Wow! Hitler was a Christian? I thought he killed Jews and Christians. What were Mao and Stalin? Christian Missionaries?
You’re a Catholic and you didn’t know this? Once you are baptized in the RCC you will ALWAYS be counted as a member. Otherwise, what good would infant baptism into the RCC be? You can’t get unbaptized if you decide to leave..
Neither did he— try as he might in arki-saw as a towel boy in Hot Springs with his “nurse” momma and absent da-da. Scramble scramble lie and gamble and cocaine up his nose so badly he had to have reconstruction plastic surgery on his nasal septum (a fact he has never been asked about among many others,rapist in chief , perverted serial rapist, and terrible president who destroyed all he could, even while an institutional and personal bigot).
clinton’s “religion” is power, dope and p-—sy, and maybe even males too— (blue dress photo at epstein’s NY “mansion”). How wonderful that fate and his lifestyle is revealing tertiary neurosyphilis for his vacant frequent staring and shuffling gait.
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