Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Qwinn
He spoke out to the whole world that racism was wrong a great many times

Yes he did, in fact, his first official pronouncement in the Voice of Jesus contains a strong anti-racist, universalist polemic. And Hitler's personal antagonism toward the jews was of a common brand of anti-semitism, however, SS propaganda rhetoric and posters and Hitler's speeches frequently appealed to the anti-jewish sentiments that the church had unabashedly fostered since time out of mind. Being generally opposed to racism, just like being a really nice guy, is not really a defense against the specific charges here. Being vaguely opposed to racism does not stop the hand at the oven, excommunication does, if that hand is catholic, and it will give pause, even if that hand is lutheren, and we have just covered about 90% of the population of Germany, and the German army. Beyond that, the churches direct, official, specific opposition to a program casts a meaningful shadow on the legitimacy of that program in all eyes, in a country with an electorate that is mostly christian. That's why the eugenics program was stopped--suddenly the SS found it's political capitol at risk. You might want to ask yourself why, in a supposedly "unchristian" nazi germany.

124 posted on 11/06/2003 1:35:25 AM PST by donh (1)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 118 | View Replies ]


To: Qwinn
a few quotes from Hitler on the subject of Hitler's Germany being a christian state:

ADOLPH HITLER SAID: "I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted. That is why I have turned away from Ludendorff and that is why I reject that book by Rosenberg. It was written by a Protestant. It is not a Party book. It was not written by him as a Party man. The Protestants can be left to argue with him ... As a Catholic I never feel comfortable in the Evangelical Church or its structures. That is why I will have great difficulty if I try to regulate affairs of the Protestant churches. The evangelical people or the Protestants will in any case reject me. But you can be sure: I will protect the rights and freedoms of the churches and not let them be touched, so that you need have no fears about the future of the Church." Hitler was also ready to discuss with the Bishop his views on the Jewish question: "As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service."

125 posted on 11/06/2003 2:17:06 AM PST by donh (1)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 124 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson