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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. |
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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."
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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)
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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)
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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.