To: MeganC; All
No one around in 1938 could have imagined what the future held for the Nazis..."No one?"?????
Yes, to be fair, many in Christianity didn't stand up to Hitler or the Nazis, either, at that time.
But you're off-base is claiming "no one":
1937
You can read missionary-author E. Stanley Jones' clarion call to oppose the Nazis in The Choice Before Us.
Or try even earlier May, 1934
The Barmen Declaration or The Theological Declaration of Barmen 1934 (Die Barmer Theologische Erklärung) was a document adopted by Christians in Nazi Germany who opposed the Deutsche Christen (German Christian) movement. In the view of the delegates to the Synod that met in the city of Barmen in May, 1934, the German Christians had corrupted church government by making it subservient to the state and had introduced Nazi ideology into the German Protestant churches that contradicted the Christian gospel. The Barmen Declaration rejects (i) the subordination of the Church to the state (8.223) and (ii) the subordination of the Word and Spirit to the Church. "8.27 We reject the false doctrine, as though the Church in human arrogance could place the Word and work of the Lord in the service of any arbitrarily chosen desires, purposes, and plans." On the contrary, The Declaration proclaims that the Church "is solely Christ's property, and that it lives and wants to live solely from his comfort and from his direction in the expectation of his appearance." (8.17)...One of the main purposes of the Declaration was to establish a three-church confessional consensus opposing pro-nazi "German Christianity". These three churches were Lutheran, Reformed, and United.Barmen Declaration
To: Colofornian
Charles Lindberg was a big fan of Hitler’s, too.
L
12 posted on
03/05/2015 5:05:10 PM PST by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Colofornian
There were pastors whom went to the concentration camps because they opposed Hitler. Ever hear of Dietrich Bonhoeffer whom for a time taught in New York went back to germany and later died in one of the German Concentration Camps shortly before the war ended. There were others whom went against Hitler. The Mormon church was a big part of racism against blacks, why not Jews and Gypsy’s too? Oddly enough it was an American company that provided the cyanide for the death camps!
36 posted on
03/05/2015 5:43:33 PM PST by
hondact200
(Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson