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To: Ichneumon
I didn't start this Hitler stuff, but as long as some creationist was foolish to bring it up ...

Actually, Hitler was a creationist:

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.
-- Adolph Hitler, noted creationist
Source: Book 2, Chapter 10, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
Discussed at Adolf Hitler's Religion.
2,735 posted on 08/25/2003 1:43:22 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Hic amor, haec patria est.)
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To: PatrickHenry
Yep, Hitler was a Christian alright. If you have shown anything, its he was a theistic evolutionist, not a creationist. If you read his statements in Mein Kamph, they are clearly evolutionary in nature with an occasional "Our creator" thrown in. They speak of natural selection, survival of the fittest, all naturalistic evolutionary assumptions. Hitler was an evolutionist, was not Christian, and used evolutionary theory to justify genocide. Although it sinned in the beginning by not doing so, many in the German Christian church did stand against the Fuhrer and his insanity.

Some four thousand Protestant ministers, led by Karl Barth and Hans Asmussen, formed the Confessing Church, which at Barmen in 1934 declared that no human Fuhrer could stand above the Word of God. The Confessing Church lost its properties, its seminary was suppressed, its journals were prohibited, and when war came the members of its clergy of military age and not in prison were assigned to positions of greatest danger, while the older leaders were sent to concentration camps. Among them was Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran pastor who after more than half a year in solitary confinement was brought to trial under Hitler's law against "treacherous attacks upon state and party." His refusal to capitulate and his persistent resistance to Nazism made him the symbolic figure of the Protestant opposition until the downfall of the Nazis.4
4. Roland H. Bainton (Marshall B. Davidson, Editor) The Horizon History of Christianity (New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1964), p.390.
2,744 posted on 08/25/2003 1:52:35 PM PDT by DittoJed2
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To: PatrickHenry
I didn't start this Hitler stuff, but as long as some creationist was foolish to bring it up ... Actually, Hitler was a creationist:

Hitler was a creationist, Hitler was an evolutionist, Hitler was whatever it was convenient to be at that exact moment. That's the stupidity of this argument. People who really, really want to exterminate another race of people use whatever tools are easily available at the time, be they Darwinism, Christianity, Shintoism, Islam or whatever. Trying to infer anything but expediency from this betrays a sad lack of histrorical knowledge, or an extreme tendentiousness.

2,747 posted on 08/25/2003 1:53:54 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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