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being persecuted, slaughtered ... massacred, turned to bars of soap because of 2000 years of Christian anti-Judaism

In The Church's Confession under Hitler, author Arthur Cochrane presents the not sufficiently well-known statement of exiled Albert Einstein, the great physicist, cited by Wilhelm Niemoller in Kampi und Zeugnis der bekennenden Kirche - Struggle and Testimony of the Confessing Church, p.526.

Being a lover of freedom, when the (Nazi) revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...

Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

being persecuted, slaughtered ... massacred, turned to bars of soap because of 2000 years of Christian anti-Judaism

Sept. 2, 2000 ,Volume 15, Number 34 WORLD ON THE WEB, Marvin Olasky

...the word homophobia smogged up the air over the Democratic convention in Los Angeles last week, as we learned once again that a man who criticizes homosexuality on biblical grounds is trying to repress his true desire to plant a big sloppy kiss on the dude next door.

Perhaps the most observant current viewer of Christophobia is not a Christian but an Orthodox Jewish rabbi. Daniel Lapin wrote in his book, America's Real War, "The educational bureaucracy expects the state to accommodate every possible bizarre cultural mutation and lifestyle, but finds prayer at graduation an intolerable and fatal compromise of state neutrality toward religion." Why else would such illogic reign if fear were not involved?

Some Jewish leaders would point to the Holocaust to say that their fear has an objective basis, yet the faith that animated Hitler was not Christianity but a racist version of Social Darwinism's emphasis on survival of the fittest. And the reason Hitler could put his faith into practice is because of a powerful government apparatus; although the left hates to admit it, National Socialism was one type of socialism.

That's why Rabbi Lapin's fearless statement makes sense: "Those of us who venerate freedom, be we Jewish or Christian, be we religious or secularized, have no option but to pray for the health of Christianity in America. No other group possesses both the faith and the numbers sufficient to hold back the ever-encroaching, sometimes sinister, power of the state."

In South Orange, New Jersey, local middle school officials canceled a field trip to see a performance of Charles Dickens' play, A Christmas Carol for fear of offending some students.

"In passing, we should note that [Hitler] banned prayer in schools, changed Christian holidays into pagan festivals, and eventually forced the church leadership to accept his outrageous demands. His political machine swallowed the church whole because the church had lost its biblical mission. Thus the state not only interfered with religious practices but controlled them." Lutzer, Erwin W., Hitler's Cross , p. 19 (Chicago: Moody Press, 1995)

In Sacramento, California, elementary school teachers have been banned from using the word "Christmas" in class.

Schools in several states have prohibited teachers from having students sing familiar Christmas carols, favoring instead secular songs such as Frosty the Snowman and Jingle Bell Rock. Wendy Wagenheim, communications director of the ACLU in Michigan, said "What they need to do is develop a balance in the kind of songs they are teaching to children … select songs that will not make anyone feel uncomfortable." [Emphasis added.]

In 1935 prayers ceased to be obligatory in schools; religious instruction was not yet exactly prohibited, but it was limited to those who had been licensed by the state. Thus the dogmas of Nazism were substituted for the doctrines of the Bible.... Carols and Nativity displays were banned from the schools in 1938, and even the name Christmas was changed to "Yuletide." Crucifixes were eliminated from classrooms, and Easter was turned into a holiday that heralded the arrival of spring. Lutzer, Erwin W., Hitler's Cross , p. 115 (Chicago: Moody Press, 1995)

The city of Pittsburgh was required to remove signs permitting 10-minute parking near a church's display of a Christmas nativity scene. The ACLU claimed the parking waiver violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

Hitler cynically blended the racism of composer Richard Wagner and the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin with the blood myths of Eastern occultism." Lutzer, Erwin W., Hitler's Cross , p. 79-80(Chicago: Moody Press, 1995)

"One is either a Christian or a German. You can't be both." -Adolf Hitler (Lutzer, 113-114)

Federalism And Religious Liberty: Were Church And State Meant To Be Separate?

Donahue agreed and said, "You speak for me. When I see a holy person, I'm happy about that."

By the time Hitler was elected to power in 1933, the vast majority of the State Church was apostate. Thousands of pastors and priests swore blind allegiance to him. But a few did not. Lutzer

The Public Broadcasting Service did present a serious religious program shortly before Christmas - a two-hour discourse on the life of Muhammad produced by Muslim convert and apologist for the Islamic faith, Alex Kronemer. "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" aired on most of the 349 PBS affiliates nationwide beginning December 18, while the Washington, D.C., PBS station broadcast the program on December 26.

Comments on the PBS special - "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" significant details were omitted or glossed over. This includes many of Muhammad's violent acts. Additionally, many of the comments were inaccurate according to the Islamic source materials. When the film is put to the test, against the real Islamic source materials, it is obvious that this film was nothing more than Islamic evangelism of an ignorant and naïve American public.

PBS, Recruiting for Islam - article by Daniel Pipes

It is a uniquely Christian belief that works cannot earn a person salvation, as St. Paul notes in Romans 3:23: "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." For Christians, acceptance into the heavenly kingdom comes only by God's grace and entering into a personal trust relationship with the Living God, Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice on the cross served as an atonement for sin. Thus believers are justified in the eyes of God.

That You Might Believe: A Study of the Gospel of John

Jews for Jesus

The Question of God

To the assertion equating Nazi and Christian worldviews, Donahue responded, "I agree with you."

Here is one of the (to my mind) greatest philosophers produced by England in the last century, telling people-especially other philosophers-that sometimes it is better to walk away than to argue. Why? Because a person's conscience can become so corrupt, and lead to such equally corrupt rationalizations, that to engage them in serious argument about those rationalizations is both pointless-being unlikely to have the slightest impact on their thinking-and... Why Abortion Isn’t Important

"The August 6, 1938 Chicago Tribune carried the headline "Bible Twisted to Nazi Creed." The article tells how the Sermon on the Mount and the gospel of John had been rewritten by former Reich Bishop Ludwig Muller. The words sin and grace were deleted from the texts, and the Golden Rule was rewritten to apply only to relationships between Nazi comrades. All references to Old Testament [Jewish] prophets, from Moses to Abraham, were also deleted." (Lutzer, p. 146)

Nietzsche's Truth In the months before his final descent into madness, Friedrich Nietzsche made the following declaration and prediction: "I know my destiny. Someday my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous, a crisis like no other on earth [The Holocaust and evolution] , the profoundest collision of conscience, a decision conjured up against everything that had been believed, required, and held sacred up to that time.[ The New State Religion: Atheism] I am not a man; I am dynamite." [The Real Murderers: Atheism or Christianity?]

Nietzsche extolled the "superman" as "the magnificent blonde brute, avidly rampant for spoil and victory." [73] Shirer sees Nietzsche as an important source for helping Hitler justify "the most ruthless and cold-blooded deeds, the suppression of personal freedom, the brutal practice of slave labor, the depravities of the concentration camp, the massacre of his own followers in June 1934, the killing of war prisoners and the mass slaughter of the Jews." [74] The idea of the supreme leader as not being subject to the moral restraints binding ordinary men came from Nietzsche. Shirer concludes: "That in the end Hitler considered himself the superman of Nietzsche's prophecy can not be doubted." [75]

73. Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted by Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 146-147.
74. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 162.
75. Ibid., p. 147.

 

 

 

1 posted on 01/12/2003 2:44:07 PM PST by Remedy
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To: Remedy
Mr Donahue, a pathetic 1950's grad of Notre Dame, will do anything to promote himself.

His most recent effort was a whopping failure as he tried to go head to head against O'Reilly on Fox News.....and went down the old crapper.


70 posted on 01/13/2003 4:37:20 AM PST by rmvh
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To: Remedy; RnMomof7; ohioWfan; All
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel--not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."

-- St. Paul, First letter to the Corinthians, 1:17-19.


75 posted on 01/13/2003 8:31:02 AM PST by ppaul
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This is scary stuff. I'v eonly read about 1/3 of it. I think we should pass it along to everyone..
82 posted on 01/13/2003 9:17:31 AM PST by Freedom2specul8
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To: Remedy
Donahue discusses theology;
84 posted on 01/13/2003 9:27:08 AM PST by Red Jones
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To: Remedy
It is a uniquely Christian belief that works cannot earn a person salvation, as St. Paul notes in Romans 3:23: "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." For Christians, acceptance into the heavenly kingdom comes only by God's grace and entering into a personal trust relationship with the Living God, Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice on the cross served as an atonement for sin. Thus believers are justified in the eyes of God.

This is indeed a "uniquely Christian belief." So why is everyone so shocked that Jews don't accept it?

95 posted on 01/13/2003 9:43:49 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Genesis 18:25)
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To: Remedy
bump for later reading
100 posted on 01/13/2003 9:57:08 AM PST by SerpentDove
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To: Remedy
Bump for later. Incredible. Are we surprised that liberals don't like rules? ..Don't like limitations? They rebel against the law and when Told God set down ONE way to heaven they even want to argue with HIM. Liberals have no respect for authority and no respect for rules - as a rule of thumb. Liberals think they should have a right to sleep with your wife if they so choose. Who cares if it's called adultry. I had friends growing up that had that mindset. Their momentary pleasure is far more important than respect or rules. And that mindset is why our nation is in so much turmoil.
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109 posted on 01/13/2003 10:29:07 AM PST by Havoc
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Well, Phil, sadly, Rev. Mohler is a spiritual racist. And it's not enough for him for Jews to be at the back of the heavenly bus, and not only can they not drink from the good old water fountain, he wants nothing less than a spiritual lynching. … [T]hink about how perverse this is. You take a Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus, one of the greatest teachers the world has ever known. You give him blond hair and blue eyes. You then put a Ku Klux Klan outfit on him with a hood and a white sheet, and you make him into the chief enforcer of anti-Semitism the world has ever known.
I haven't been able to read any further, my mouth is still hanging open at these statements...
110 posted on 01/13/2003 10:35:59 AM PST by Libertina
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I have 2 quotes for Donahue and his arrogant guests:

"For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." (1 Corin. 1:18

"It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." (Mark Twain)

116 posted on 01/13/2003 11:00:19 AM PST by sweetliberty (Hopeless FR addict!)
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To: Remedy
Thou shalt listen to the Donahue and verily thou shalt hear an actual asshole speaketh.
128 posted on 01/13/2003 11:58:12 AM PST by pankot
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To: Remedy
Excellent post. I especially like your references that compare Nazi Germany and American liberalism. Whenever I hear liberals ranting about conservatives being like Nazis I have to chuckle at their obvious ignorance. Funny how they're front and center in condemning Nazism as something evil while supporting the very things that allowed it to grow.
132 posted on 01/13/2003 12:30:51 PM PST by sweetliberty (Hopeless FR addict!)
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To: Remedy
Is that show still on I thought it was going to be cancelled soon?
136 posted on 01/13/2003 12:40:44 PM PST by CPT Clay
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I personally don't want to see Phil at anymore St. Jude's functions and if the good people at St. Jude's had a brain they would not extend anymore invitations to Marlo's spouse.
TAW
142 posted on 01/13/2003 1:01:10 PM PST by Malichi
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Phil Donahue Ridicules Christian Salvation Doctrine

Phi-LIP Don-A-hue......is a sain-tan?

149 posted on 01/13/2003 1:18:09 PM PST by maestro
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To: Remedy
I saw parts of both Donahue shows (how, I'm not sure since I never watch Donahe.) You left out the most important thing that happened on these shows.

A clear and correct description of the gospel was given on both shows.

The speakers never backed away or made excuses for the gospel. The laid it out for all to hear.

So what if Donahue attacked it? How many people watching that show heard the gospel for the first time, or were reminded again of the truth after ignoring it for years? Isn't it better to let people hear the gospel (even if it is being attacked) then to avoid any attacks by being quiet?

Christianity can survive open debate (even caustic, hateful debate.) Donahue probably did a service to Christianity by airing these shows. How many people think they are going to heaven because they are "christians", yet think christianity only means being a good person like Jesus? Better to let them hear the true gospel (and then have a true choice of rejecting or accepting it) then to let them drift through life thinking they are going to heaven when they aren't.

150 posted on 01/13/2003 1:19:32 PM PST by Brookhaven
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To: Remedy
One wonders why anyone would follow a faith that they do not believe will lead to salvation. Apparently Phil thinks anyone of faith is a racist.
154 posted on 01/13/2003 1:38:20 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
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To: Remedy
To anyone really interested in learning about Jesus Christ the best place to start is The BIBLE.
The book of John specifically!!!

Some day ALL will know the truth.

168 posted on 01/13/2003 3:41:08 PM PST by right way right
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Donohue hasn't the sense God gave a hermit crab. Back in his heyday, he accused Ayn Rand of wanting to be a dictator. All he can do is respond to his immediate impulses unfiltered by any reasoning process. This is about all he's capable of doing. He literally hasn't a thought in his head, only moods and impressions.
184 posted on 01/14/2003 12:44:27 AM PST by Mortimer Snavely (Is anyone else tired of reading these tag lines?)
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To: Remedy
"Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin...." Psalm 73:18

Praying....

192 posted on 01/14/2003 10:40:17 AM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (I'm being followed by a Moonshadow....)
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To: Remedy
Well Donahue's an idiot. What else is new?
204 posted on 01/16/2003 12:46:16 PM PST by Michael2001
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