You reference to a similar National Socialist onslaught on the Catholic Church in Germany between 1934 and 1938 is very apt. It is worth quoting in full a speech by the Propaganda Minister, Joseph Gobbels relayed on all German wireless stations on the 28th May 1937:
“A vast number of Catholic clerics have been tried for sexual crimes . . . It is not a matter of regrettable individual lapses, but of a general corruption of morals such as the history of civilation has scarcely ever known . . . No other class of society has ever come to shelter such depravity . . . In our civilised world no other class of society has contrived to practise immorality and indulge in filth on a scale resembling than that achieved by the German clergy in all its ranks . . . We cannot possibly impose sanctions on annatural vice and yet at the same time allow thousands upon thousands of priests and brothers of religious Orders to escape scot-free . . . A very large number of these priests and Religious work in the confessional . . . There is no doubt that even the thousands of cases which have come to light represent but a small fraction of the total moral corruption”.
Thus Joseph Gobbels, the ‘poisoned dwarf’ propgandist of the NAZI regime. Yet what he said could just as easily have been a recent editorial of the Irish Times, which is even more stewed in liberal bigotry than even the NYT, if that were possible. As the writer Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn once said “scratch a liberal and you find a NAZI”. I disagree that German Evangelicals were in anyway enthusiastic about this campaign. As today, so in the past, many of the people driving of this campaign were embittered Catholic apostates and of course homosexuals, who contrary to current propganda held enormous influence in the National Socialist Party—particularly among the Brownshirts.
Understanding Satan's process is important. The first step in Satan's process is for us to deny his works and either tolerate or participate in them. The second step is for us to deny Satan's existence. The last step in Satan's process is for us to deny Christ's existence. It is, as they say, a slippery slope. Those who revel in Satan's actions against His Church are well down that slope.