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Greetings,
Recently I received a response from a fellow Vietnam veteran to the newsletter invitation we send out for people to visit our web site. His reaction of “disbelief” to the forgotten, yet shocking, news that Hitler appeared on the scene in Germany declaring his faith in the Lord as he attempted to unite patriotic German Christians, is reflective of how many who read our letter respond. For most people in America, who claim to be Christians, would list Hitler as one of the biggest “Enemies of God”, and not a Christian who claimed to follow Jesus. For years this was my reaction as well, but I discovered there is much more that needs to be understood concerning who is an enemy of God.
My life before becoming a born again follower of the resurrected Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, revolved around me making comparisons of my life against others whose evil deeds made me look like a knight in shining armor. I neglected, at that time in my life as an officer in the American Army, to line up my beliefs and life with the testimony of the New Testament. The scriptures to me, even though I professed to be a Christian, were never part of my spiritual diet, so the following verses written by James never convicted my soul nor confronted my thinking of how righteous I was in my own eyes when compared to Hitler:
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James 4:1-10 “From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is “The Enemy of God”. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.”
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Oh how I wish I had read these scriptures as a young man when preachers, friends, and family members led me to think I was a Christian because of being baptized as an infant and later attending Sunday School. Moreover, it was clearly implied that just being an American made me a Christian. I don’t remember anyone ever telling me to…confess the self and money loving pride of life that flowed out of my sin nature, submit to God and let him purify my heart by the blood of Jesus Christ, then resist the Devil and his fallen angels by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit when one is born again. Concerning Hitler, my pastor, family, and friends considered him to be an evil man when I was growing up back in the 1950’s, but no one ever explained to me why Christians in Germany made war upon the German Christians who immigrated to America and settled the town in which I was born and raised.
Now we have Americans today involved in the two wings of the political American Eagle, most all of them claiming to be Christians, calling each other the spiritual offspring of Adolph Hitler. Is it possible one of these wings will produce the Hitler who will rule America and ultimately unite the nations to make war against the Lord Jesus Christ as he returns to this Earth, Revelation 17:14, 19:19? The left and right extremists trading these insults only creates the atmosphere of disgust and hatred one for another just as James accused those Christians of doing in the first century. In his day they even began to commit violent acts against others while thinking they were followers of Jesus. James called the men adulterers and the women adulteresses, pleading with them to turn from their spiritual fornication and betrayal of Jesus and his teaching not be lovers of money or mammon, which always produces envy, greed, and evil desires for power and position over others. Will violence break out among Americans as it did in Germany, and those who James was writing? Or will the two wings compromise with one another and form a mighty political power that no person or nation can safely oppose?
These first century words of James several hundred years later identified men like Constantine, the Roman Emperor who also claimed to be a Christian, then convinced other believers to join with him in his so-called “just wars” the empire was fighting. Then double-mindedness and confusion ruled the day in Christendom, with a shrinking number of believers maintaining that the Roman Empire under Constantine was still what Daniel and John prophesied as Satan’s last bestial empire that would “eventually” produce the Antichrist, the Little Horn of Daniel 7 and the Beast of the Sea of Revelation 13. Had the hearts and minds of most in Christendom changed in the nineteen centuries since James when humanity witnessed the bloodbath of German Christians making war against their Polish, American, French, and English brothers, even uniting with the emperor worshipping cult in Japan to fight against their Christian cousins during World War II?
Like today, James was dealing with Christians who claimed to follow Jesus in order to escape Hell, but refused to confess their lustful, proud, and militant sin nature that was sending them there, 1st John 2:16. This accurately described me as a Christian soldier in the American Army before I went to Vietnam in 1968. I had no knowledge of what James calls the “world” that I had become friends with, making me an enemy of God. Had anyone confronted me with that truth I would have recoiled in anger against them, calling them cowards, traitors, and guilty of treason. Like most Christian American soldiers I was ignorant of my own sin nature and its components. And no preacher or religious leader ever told me I was born with a sin nature which instinctively loves the world with all of its pride and lusts. In other words, we are all born as friends of the world and enemies of God. That hurts doesn’t it? But now you know why Jesus said we must be born again to see and enter the Kingdom of Heaven, John 3.
Furthermore, I was unaware of the relationship between this sin nature we all have and the “world system” of politics, religion, economics, and the military strength that enforces and guards its institutions. And, as I have written repeatedly to drive home the truth, there exists living beings, fallen angels led by Satan the Devil, who are the real rulers of all these institutions of man in every nation until the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to rule and reign on this Earth for one-thousand years. Here is the relationship between your sin nature and the national institutions of this world system be it a democracy or a dictator who wants his people to follow only him. All of these institutions and the people who guide them “appeal” to the self-loving pride of your life and one’s nation of birth. Can you now see how easy it is for fallen angels to lead and manipulate people who walk every hour of every day in the pride and lusts that flow naturally from their hearts?
Many of you who have not yet been born again are struggling with this truth of fallen angels ruling over your life and the nations of this world. It is even hard for those who have received the Holy Spirit to come to grips with some thing or some one who they have not seen with their own eyes, but this biblical fact must become applied wisdom in our new God-given hearts or deception will again cause great double-mindedness in our life.
With these things in mind please read my exchange with Van and Doug Krieger’s (also a Vietnam veteran) well-written and documented article I sent him that details the rise of Hitler to deceive and produce in Germany a great and mighty army of Christian patriots who brought destruction and death to countless millions of people in many nations, to include the six million Jews that Hitler regarded as the scum of the Earth, who needed to be scourged and burned to ashes. Then consider how these evil thoughts are beginning to surface again around the world, led by the insanity of Islamic leaders in Iran and many other Moslem nations, whose greatest desire is the annihilation of Israel and all Jews. Remember, the coming American Antichrist will appear as a powerful peacemaker, even bringing a regime change or a change of behavior in Iran that compels them to embrace his vision of a New World Order. Is what we have been witnessing lately in the Middle East on Fox News and CNN the treacherous work of the fallen angels working in the hearts and minds or world leaders to create their counterfeit version of the Kingdom of Heaven on the Earth?
To all fellow veterans, especially those who served in the Vietnam War, who might be reading this letter and article, please understand that my intention is to introduce you to the wholesome teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, and not to condemn those of you who still hold tightly to militant patriotism which is rooted and grounded in the pride of this life. Some of you have written me in the past expressing clearly how the Lord Jesus Christ has touched and transformed your life in spite of the horrors of the war you experienced. As a matter of fact many of your haunting nightmares of death and destruction have been used by God to bring you to repentance and faith in the saving blood and glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ. Most of you who I have met either in person or over the internet all say the same thing…”I hate war and love Jesus”. You have been awakened by the ministry of the Holy Spirit, whereby he will use you to reach out to troubled young men and women veterans now coming back from the wars in the Middle East!
Please visit our website and sign the “guestbook” or send an email. Thank you for reading this and I hope to hear from you soon. Again, if you are interested in the questions above, please consider reading the articles “Then Comes the Fire”, “The Judgment Chronicles” and “The Fundamentalist” posted on our web site. For details concerning my military background during the Vietnam era, please read the articles “Vietnam: The Manchus of Charlie Company”, “Pacifist, Patriot, or Pilgrim” and “Moved with Compassion”. Just click on the web site link below and click on “Articles”. The radio interviews I have been part of can be listened to by clicking on this link: http://www.thebyteshow.com/JackHook.html
Sincerely,
Jack D. Hook
jdhook@cox.net
Babylon the Great is Falling
http://www.babylonthegreatisfalling.net
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From: Van
To: jdhook@cox.net
Subject: Sir: The NAZIs were Socialists, not “Right Wing” and Hitler was no Christian
Sir:
NAZI was the German Acronym for National Socialist German Worker’s Party. It’s why Molotov and Stalin thought they could make a Deal with Uncle Adolph.
Hitler renounced Christ by joining Madame Blavatsky’s Occult Thule Society. Although raised a Catholic, by the time of his ascent to the Chancellory in 1932, he was no longer Christian by a dozen years.
The SS were to be the NAZI High Priests. Hitler was completely paranoid and psychotic, and addled by narcotics by 42′. Corporals shouldn’t attemp Strategic Plans…. it’s why the dumb s–t lost the War.
It’s why SOE didn’t whack his a–. He was bringing Deutchland down quicker by staying alive.
Every nation has a Command, General, and Staff College for a reason: WAR is an ART. Hitler was a political hack in an ill fitting costume of a general officer.
Being awarded an Iron Cross as a “Runner” in The Great War, does not a General Officer make.
The BBC has a great series: The OCCULT History of the Third Reich.
Respects,
Van
Co. B, 2nd Batt, ODA 225, 11th SFGA Ret.
Penn State 79′. BS. ED.
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Greetings Van,
Thanks for the response to my invitation my fellow veteran. I would agree with many of your points about Hitler, but he didn’t start out as an occultic madman filled with paranoia. He was a professing Christian “without” the indwelling power and truth of the Holy Spirit, who used people and issues to gain political power. Yes, he was nationalist and wanted government control of everything as do the liberals of today. But in the moral social issues of his day he was aligned with the militant “just war” Christian patriots and right-wing of German politics.
As I said in my invitation letter to you, the only question remaining about the coming Antichrist is this: Will the last President be a left-wing endorser of abortion and gay marriage like Barack Obama, or will he come from the right-wing of militant patriots as did Germany’s Adolph Hitler, who thought it proper and just to kill homosexuals with the Jews? In fact, the right-wing zealotry of Hitler blamed the Jews for the deterioration of the moral standards of the German people. Will the militant false Christian patriots, who are more loyal to America’s Constitution than the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount and his prophetic sermon on the Mount of Olives, be able to overcome the putrid swamp of left-wing lunacy that fills Washington D.C, and replace it with their own cesspool of self-righteous pride and greed? No matter which wing of America’s political Eagle the Antichrist emerges from, he will be a professing Christian, just as Hitler was in the 1930’s.
I have copied below a well-written and documented article by a friend of mine. Please take the time to read his account of Hitler’s rise to power and visit their web site and email address which is noted at the end. The bottom line for me is the correct answer to who is Jesus Christ, what did he do, and what did he say. He rose from the dead bodily after he was crucified for our sins, calling every man and woman to repentance and faith in his shed blood and glorious resurrection. He was seen by many ascending into the clouds, promising to return in like manner at the end of the age. That time is now here! Keep in touch.
Your new eternal friend,
Jack
http://www.babylonthegreatisfalling.net
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HITLER’S POSITIVE CHRISTIANITY…
Unleashing the Patriotic Church
By
Douglas William Krieger
NEVER IN AMERICA?
This article was written by one of German ancestry whose forebears on his mother’s side can be traced to Martin Luther himself; thence, the incessant interest in the rise of Adolf Hitler and, in particular (through years of research) the under girding support he derived in his ascendancy from the Christian religion in the heart of Europe. How could this possibly happen? Alas! Could we in America be as deceitfully predisposed to such a malevolent curse-driven by the same demons? Do we today witness camouflaged strategies designed to accomplish a greater horror of unimaginable consequence and upon Christendom of like vulnerability?
The remotest thought of such an evil plot akin to what seduced the German people could somehow be foisted upon our beloved America boggles the senses . . . yet, each day, each month, the same cultural polarization eerily divides; the similitude of its military-industrial complex mirrors that of Rome’s expansions; its cries for greater and more restrictive security for its citizenry clamors; its tenuous economic factors now threatening the globalism it created as a result of the insatiable consumption of all things luxurious persist-all this while within the walls of our crystal city, the party is oblivious to the multitude of the wretched outside who admire and distain its opulence. Are there comparisons? Be not quick in your rejection that alleged “systems” now in place-with histories of wide disparity-insure Americans absolute relief from the extremities of Nazi Germany . . . look again, look carefully, very carefully . . . history’s mercurial habit at repetition seeks to warn us all . . . “broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be that go in thereat.”
THE INTOXICATING APPEAL
To understand the appeal, the absolute, mesmerizing, and intoxicating drive behind Hitler’s success, one must go beyond the inequities of the Versailles Treaty and delve into the mysterious association that Herr Hitler placed upon the Christian religion. Don’t think that Adolf was way off into some cultic, overtly demonic world of fantasy and influence. True, the occult most assuredly was deeply engaged in his thinking and outlook-but the use of legitimate Christian imagery was his forte. He both understood the need to mobilize the masses and the religion that alone could sway their fidelity to his cause.
Furthermore, throughout his declarations and apparent pontifications, is a unique ability to uplift and galvanize the German people-to so highly esteem them, and to generate within them the self-esteem that would produce a people whose image reflected the one who had so unalterably changed and transformed them into the awesome enunciation of der Fuhrer himself. They became transfixed and transported into another state of mind and being-from despair and rejection, to an exhilarating euphoria and total acceptance. They could BE ALL THAT THEY COULD BE and then some. Here is no buffoon strutting upon the stage of German dejection cavalierly riveting the German mind and will upon himself-no, no, no!
Here is the uniqueness of Adolf Hitler-one who could so verbalize with utter clarity what the German soul could be in its fullness and creative genius. Neither did his spoken word proclaim his own commitment and genius-it climaxed within the Germany he envisioned in such a rapturous expression and discovery of who they were, and what they could become, with God Almighty vindicating every breath they would take! Hitler injected into nearly every German heart a DIVINE SPARK, which regrettably morphed into an inferno of destruction and death unforeseen in human history-but its initial dissension upon its benefactors was replete with a baptism of power and light utterly transcendent that it captured an entire nation in the heart of Christian Europe. Its pristine message created the IMAGE of DAS VOLK, a people who were destined by the very triumph of their corporate will to be the consummation and commencement of the Kingdom of God-DAS THOUSANDE JAHRE REICH! (The promised millennial reign-one thousand year kingdom)!
But, firstly, the Weimar Republic’s failure was predictable. Its liberalism was far too watered down, far too immersed in its diversity and acceptance to galvanize the enthusiasm and concerted consecration of common folk, who longed for a winner, a leader, a “national champion.” Democracy, gone awry, alone can produce dictatorship-de facto, or elected! Ultimately, the Left (Weimar or Hollywood)-again by its very nature-simply cannot SUSTAIN the caliber of commitment and vision that can be produced by absolutism and rigid conservatism to which we allude here.
Today a growing number of truly evangelical faithful observe the Christian Right in America, assisted by its current allies among the so-called neocons (i.e., neoconservatives-pragmatic politicos), forging a formidable alliance of convenience that wholly supports the rise of the New American World Order System. Its striking resemblance to Hitler’s appeals is frightful! Liberalism may rant and rave about societal freedoms and renounce governmental restrictions-but their voices and challenges are hollow sounding and even adjudged fallacious, when the triumph of his armies have so prevailed upon the Plains of Shinar! Libertarians and Constitutionalists-you do well to listen to this diatribe.
ADOLF HITLER-THE GERMAN SOLUTION IS A CHRISTIAN ONE
The tone and substance coming from the mouth of Herr Hitler, although the context is, of course, unique to European Christianity, is eerily compatible to what we are increasingly hearing today from certain political leaders within the American New World Order System. What you are about to read will shock many of you-will utterly cause you to have a spiritual seizure; a revulsion akin to a full-blown, stomach-bending, vomit-but you must come to terms with why this is happening and how religion-the Christian religion-is the most powerful tool that can be utilized in order to capture the “believing” masses and to promote, through “moral covering” and political dedication, an agenda that resounds within the heart of the common man in the context of Western Civilization.
Hitler, like today’s champions of Americana, knew that the “believing masses” had been beaten down; had suffered their World War (Viet Nam), had their beloved Germany (America) battered about with moral decline and “radical secularism” that caused the “moral fiber” of the nation to collapse-something had (has) to be done-someone with guts and glory had (has) to arise to capture the imagination of the nation to arise from its depravity and crimes, from its vulnerability (be it from “them socialists” or “terrorists”), from its self-inflicted and debilitating social ills . . . someone is needed to alter our self-perceptions!
The problem was created by the Devil himself-The Cabaret Society of the Weimar Republic (They never represented true Germany!). “We’d been maligned by every creeping thing imaginable upon our streets: Socialists, Communists, radical Unionists, Jews, Secularists, Liberal Theologians, Homosexuals, Raunchy Entertainment, ad nausea-and this upon our wretched economic woes and that ‘Paper from Hell’ (i.e., the Versailles Treaty).”
Now-the Devil would provide the solution to the aforementioned problem. He would provide the solution through a man, a party, that would reach down to the common man and pull upon his heart strings-upon that which is made to respond to the highest ideals of man: His religious conscience would be the springboard to launch a fully consecrated and absolutely committed people, sold out to the one who could uplift and empower them. Thence, this resolution to Germany’s defeat must be ensconced within the language of power and persuasion-it must carry the fervor of the EVANGELIST, the power of the PROPHET, the message of the APOSTLE! Yes, convoluted-but done with such passionate skill, that the unwitting and desperate would believe the LIE. Indeed, a true LIE is so close to reality that its frightening resemblance obscures all semblances to the truth!
Ultimately, a lie told long enough, and amplified to the uttermost, resounds with familiarity-YE SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL! This original deceit confounded our original forebears. This is no ordinary lie-it is THE LIE. Godhood, the ultimate UBERMENSCH, is the final destiny of the German race-of Hitler’s “Religion.” But first, the people must be prepared, until they realize their supreme destination and status as DAS VOLK!
HITLER-I CAN’T BELIEVE HE SAID IT! (Hitler/Nazi Comments in quotes)
“We demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and moral sense of the German race. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.” (Item #24 of the German Worker’s Party “Program” cir. 1920s)
At the earliest formation of the Nazi Party, Hitler expressed his Christian support to the German people and soldiers. In the 1920s, Hitler’s German Workers’ Party (pre Nazi terminology) adopted a twenty-five-point program with the clear intent to persuade the German people that “positive Christianity” was in full conformity to the “moral” convictions of the Party-i.e., the Party fully embraced the morality of Christianity and that Christianity was viewed as “singular” in the minds of that Party-Catholic and Protestants were considered as the foundation of German Christianity in its fullness and jurisdiction (the Party embraced both as one).
“MY LORD AND SAVIOR . . . IN THE BOUNDLESS LOVE AS A CHRISTIAN . . . HE HAD TO SHED HIS BLOOD UPON THE CROSS. My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them. This is God’s truth! He was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice….
“And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.
“When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people is plundered and exploited.”
[Note, “Brood of vipers” appears in Matt. 3:7 & 12:34. John 2:15 depicts Jesus driving out the moneychangers (adders) from the temple.]
Adolf Hitler, in his speech on 12 April 1922
“We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.” –Adolf Hitler, in a speech in Berlin on 24 October 1933
Indeed, Hitler’s speeches and proclamations, even more clearly, reveal his faith and feelings toward a Christianized Germany. Nazism presents an embarrassment to Christianity and demonstrates the danger of blending “faith with politics.” Do you find it “spiritually disconcerting” to discover the depth of Hitler’s hermeneutic? How about his exegesis of Matthew 3:7, 12:34 and John 2:15? Hitler’s depiction of Jesus as the FIGHTER, not as the sufferer, is a distortion of the Scriptural intent of this reading; however, without knowing the full contextual nature of the Word, one could (as Hitler did) surmise a MILITANT JESUS is in view, and not a suffering Jesus.
It has been said, “the Bible can be read to say anything!” Examples abound: “Judas hung himself . . . go thou and do likewise!” This classic piece of cut and paste, though stupid, is precisely what many so-called expositors do with the Word of God-Hitler was no exception. But, the shedding of the blood of Jesus as the ultimate payment for “truth and justice and the German way” is frightening and turns true Christianity on its head! Note that Hitler claims to be a Christian and, as such, he has a duty to his own people-he too, like Jesus, must be a fighter for truth and justice-he must rid the Temple of the moneychangers, of the abominable Jews who harass his people, like Jesus did. The German people, according to Hitler, were being “plundered and exploited” and he would be NO CHRISTIAN if he didn’t do something about it. Hitler’s identification as a Christian was one of activism-not in name only! In this artful persuasion he under girded the German people in their predisposition to anti-Semitism, the full spiritual justification for their participation in the “Final Solution.”
In sum: Hitler showed his disdain for atheism, and pagan cults, and revealed the strength of his Christian feelings-make no doubt about that. Likewise, his was no meaningless and superficial theology-it was clearly demarcated and set forth in all its hideous implications with righteous gusto.
CHURCH UNITY-HITLER WAS A FIRM BELIEVER IN IT
“It will at any rate be my supreme task to see to it that in the newly awakened NSDAP, the adherents of both Confessions can live peacefully together side by side in order that they may take their stand in the common fight against the power, which is the mortal foe of any true Christianity.”—Adolf Hitler, in an article headed “A New Beginning,” 26 Feb. 1925
“This is for us a ground for satisfaction, since we desire that the fight in the religious camps should come to an end… all political action in the parties will be forbidden to priests for all time, happy because we know what is wanted by millions who long to see in the priest only the comforter of their souls and not the representative of their political convictions.”–Adolf Hitler, in a speech to the men of the SA at Dortmund, 9 July 1933, on the day after the signing of the Concordat (Agreement with the Roman Catholic Church, the Papacy)
The unity of the Church is a recurrent message delivered by Hitler. His object, of course, was “against the power”-i.e., the international Jewish conspiracy against the Church, and, of course, the German people and the world in general. The technique of solidifying the churches into the “Hammer of God” was a strategy that appealed to the vast majority of German Christians. That he would see in them such an instrument of righteous indignation was commending-both to them as the object of his insight, and to himself for his discernment of such.
It is my firm conviction that this is precisely what is happening in America today. The appeal to the Christian religion in the battle “against evil” within the West is NOT an historic first! Don’t be so quick to terminate this reading-let me explain. Who are those who most clearly understand the language of THE AXIS OF EVIL? Who are those who clearly grasp the “spiritual reality” behind Islamic terrorism? The current President is no fool in appealing to the most religious in leading his charge against the forces of evil that assail the current drama. The appeal to religious unity in the face of extremity is manifested in Islamic Jihad-Holy War. But, this appeal is far more sinister and powerful when placed in the hands of a “Christian President” about to inspire the faithful-far more potent is its impress. There is a righteous finality connected with it-a more sure word-an unseen and unmistaken cause behind this necessary action whose appeal is Ultimate and Conclusive. God, and God alone, is my judge-and you are “either for us or against us”-there is no compromise, there is no wavering between two opinions-LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT-OUR CAUSE IS JUST!
And, believers who are so deeply embarrassed by today’s divisions within the Church-actually do appreciate a leader who recognizes their spiritual unity. Yes, understands their “confessions” are unique-but ascribes singularity of purpose and POSITION to the Church-that’s leadership which manifests such excellence and even “theological understanding” behind what the Church really is in nature and purpose.
Today’s quest for Christian unity-especially among evangelicals and “social conservatives” (i.e., Mormons, Catholics, Protestants, evangelicals, Charismatics, Pentecostals, black and white churches alike, etc.) is a unity that, because of leadership like the “Apostles and Prophets” and so much of the Mega-Ministries/Meta-Churches of today-is able to center on our common bonds in Christ-and will not allow the “confessions” of our faith to interfere with the strength of our unity which we have in the Lord. Leadership that brings in the unity of the faith is leadership indeed! And, a President who acknowledges that type of leadership is not only to be commended-he is to be admired and followed into battle, especially when it is against EVIL DOERS!
To abrogate this fight against evil to any other than a united Church would be altogether foolhardy-for it would not resound within the hearts of the “unlearned,” as clearly as it responds within the heart of the true believer! Transcending America’s denominational disputes, as Hitler did Germany’s chasm between Protestants and Catholics, indisputably places the emphasis upon a higher theological plain; and, as in Weimar Germany, such “unity with Christian diversity” was aided and abetted by the perception of the carnal Cabaret-rank secularism bent on Germanic destruction: It’s time to circle the wagons and unite against a common foe. . . “the enemy within!”
Alas! Hitler has defined the “true foe of Christianity!” In a much more subtle fashion we see the ultimate FOE of today’s Christianity lurks behind the fanaticism of an “evil religion”-notwithstanding the ecumenical protestations to the contrary-the CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG: This is a CRUSADE! Let freedom ring within the 10/40 corridor! At last, a leader that understands what real freedom is all about-for true freedom is RELIGIOUS in nature and outlook. Religious freedom is at the heart and soul of whatever freedom can possibly mean-without it, there is no freedom! A united Church is the most critical tool in forging a nation’s will in the spread of this freedom-and in subduing every militant foe that would come against us.
A Church divided-a nation’s religious soul at odds-cannot surmount the challenges of relativism and secularism, never! And, worse yet, freedom’s recipients will be released when those who embrace these ideals are allowed to free the captives in the first place! Just as the German people were “released” by Hitler-even so, the American people must be freed from the “cultural bias” of their critics and naysayers who are determined to change the course of America’s traditions and culture to fit Hollywood’s image of what America should be. Today we tolerate their criticisms-may they bear, however, the wrath of the consumer (i.e., we will not frequent their films nor buy their records/products). The “traitors” must be confined to the outskirts of society-for they have been the obstacles of our true culture and identity-banish their “traitorous” designs! They are anti-American, anti-God, and anti-Country.
HITLER-THE “PRAYER WARRIOR”
“Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain…. The truth of that text was proved if one looks at the house of which the foundations were laid in 1918 and which since then has been in building…. The world will not help, the people must help itself. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us to use; that in it and through it we may wage the battle of our life…. The others in the past years have not had the blessing of the Almighty-of Him Who in the last resort, whatever man may do, holds in His hands the final decision. Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us…. We are all proud that through God’s powerful aid we have become once more true Germans. –Adolf Hitler, in a speech in March 1933 [Note, “Except the Lord built the house, they labor in vain” comes from Psalms 127:1]
Do you not see one here whose “strength is in the Lord?” Surely, our nightmare is over-those of the Weimar-imposed government were the kiss of death upon our people. In vain did they build this house of cards upon their own efforts and strength-but we, the German people, shall “gird up our loins” and with GOD’S POWER we shall build! How eloquent did he express it-what courageous outbursts of revelation have we here: THAT STRENGTH THE ALMIGHTY HAS GIVEN US TO USE-THAT IN IT AND THROUGH IT WE MAY WAGE THE BATTLE OF OUR LIFE!
The “blessing of the Almighty” was NOT the purview of the Weimar Republic-nor of the allies who laid this horrific burden upon us-but the Almighty has enjoined us to cast it off by His almighty strength and cease Weimar’s vain efforts to rebuild our nation; instead, we appeal to our LAST RESORT, to the ONE WHO HOLDS IN HIS HANDS THE FINAL DECISION. What insight! What acclamation of truth! What boldness of spirit is witnessed before the whole world!
God, and God Almighty alone, is our ultimate recourse and judge-LET US NEVER FORGET THE DUTY TO WHICH HE HAS CALLED US AND LET US TAKE THIS RESPONSIBILITY UPON US TO BUILD WITH ALL HIS POWER AND MIGHT! This is the spirit that swept Nazi Germany-this is the religious fervor that enthralled a people-don’t think that its appeal to the religiosity of the American spirit is so distant. Its astonishing appeal is much greater, much stronger than it ever was for those who lived through the Hitlerian nightmare of Nazi Germany. Why? Because American Christianity is far more evangelical than Germany’s ever thought of being-far more committed, far more resolute. The language of German Christianity was steeped in a tradition that had been ravaged by higher Biblical criticism and rank liberalism-in point of fact; it was a “Cultural Christianity” in name only, without power, and without conviction. Not so with mainstream American Christianity and its evangelical fervor-its leadership is legion; its financial coffers are full; its involvement is aggressive; its message is universally accepted; and, its powers of communication are unprecedented in modern history!
HITLER: “WE REGARD CHRISTIANITY AS THE UNSHAKABLE FOUNDATION OF MORALITY!”
“The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life . . . .
“The National Government regards the two Christian Confessions as the weightiest factors for the maintenance of our nationality. They will respect the agreements concluded between them and the federal States. Their rights are not to be infringed….
“It will be the Government’s care to maintain honest co-operation between Church and State; the struggle against materialistic views and for a real national community is just as much in the interest of the German nation as in that of the welfare of our Christian faith.
“The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach the greatest value to friendly relations with the Holy See and are endeavoring to develop them.” –Adolf Hitler, in his speech to the Reichstag on 23 March 1933
The partnership of Church and State constructed by Hitler was remarkable in many ways-for he appealed to their most self-righteous aspirations and accredited to them the very “moral soul” of the nation-i.e., without TRUE CHRISTIANITY’S FOUNDATIONS OF MORALITY, there is no German morality. This pronouncement was further enhanced when Hitler acclaimed the Church’s view of “materialism” as primary in the consciousness of a revived Germany. There was a depth to the Germanic soul that denounced secular materialism as downright superficial and dangerous to the German psyche. It was the Church, which brought us this revelation, and it is the Church that must be protected in order for us to maintain such revulsion to such materialistic realms-only a Germany with SPIRITUAL DEPTH is worthy of recognition and promotion. What insight Hitler possessed! To evoke the cause of spirituality juxtaposed to rank materialism, and to recognize this discernment as the purview of the Church-this is “marvelous in our eyes!”
His audience, at the time was Catholic and Protestant (mostly in name)-but his announcement of the CONCORDAT with Rome is obvious and clear. Friendly relations-yea, relations that are inclusive of the Church are and must be the norm in a resurgent Germany. Hitler’s famous statement concerning Germany resounds to this day: WE WILL RESTORE THE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT!
Similarities? Indeed, for the intrusive nature of rampant secular humanism and relativism have shaken the foundations of what was once an assured Americana-now, it’s pay back time. Why has our nation “gone to hell in a hand basket?” Why? Because we have forsaken our God and, thence, we have abandoned what little claim we held to morality-now, our families and our culture have been shipwrecked by the proponents from Dewey on down. It is time we cast off their bounds and freed ourselves from their depravities-let us arise and put on our moral amour! Thank God we have a man in the White House who understands our groaning and aspires to a higher cause and to a world of absolutes, instead of grays and murky morality (e. g., if it feels good, do it). Finally, there’s one who knows good from evil, right from wrong and is not afraid to call it like it is. Relativism is the bane of morality-relativism breeds discrepancies in moral judgment and, ipso facto, moral decay and a nation’s decline.
Notwithstanding the facetious nature of the above (and I’m not suggesting that relativism has any merit whatsoever)-it’s the USE of what is good and godly that provokes. Please understand-morality that is from above is altogether noble and cherished by all believers-but the use of morality for political goals is the worst embrace that the Christian religion needs or should countenance.
PAPAL COMPLICITY?
After the death of Pius XI, the electoral procedure to elect another Pope had begun. The March 1939 election favored Pacelli and four days later, Pacelli made it clear that he would handle all German affairs personally. He proposed the following affirmation of Hitler:
“To the Illustrious Herr Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German Reich! Here at the beginning of Our Pontificate We wish to assure you that We remain devoted to the spiritual welfare of the German people entrusted to your leadership…. During the many years we spent in Germany, We did all in Our power to establish harmonious relations between Church and State. Now that the responsibilities of Our pastoral function have increased Our opportunities, how much more ardently do We pray to reach that goal. May the prosperity of the German people and their progress in every domain come, with God’s help, to fruition!”
Pacelli became a crowned Pope on March 12, 1939 (Pius XII). The following month on April 20, 1939, at Pacelli’s express wish, Archbishop Orsenigo, the nuncio in Berlin, opened a gala reception for Hitler’s fiftieth birthday. The birthday greetings thus initiated by Pacelli immediately became a tradition; each April 20 during the few years left to Hitler and his Reich, Cardinal Bertram of Berlin would send “warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses in Germany,” to which he added “fervent prayers which the Catholics in Germany are sending to heaven on their altars.” [Cornwell, John, Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, Viking, 1999, p. 209]
HITLER: “LORD, WE WILL NOT LET THEE GO–BLESS NOW OUR FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM”
“We want honestly to earn the resurrection of our people through our industry, our perseverance, and our will. We ask not of the Almighty, ‘Lord, make us free!’-we want to be active, to work, to agree together as brothers, to strive in rivalry with one another to bring about the hour when we can come before Him and when we may ask of Him: ‘Lord, Thou seest that we have transformed ourselves, the German people is no longer the people of dishonor, of shame, of war within itself, of faintheartedness and little faith: no, Lord, the German people has become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices.’ ‘Lord, we will not let Thee go: bless now our fight for our freedom; the fight we wage for our German people and Fatherland.'”
Adolf Hitler, giving prayer in a speech on May Day, 1933
“If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. In the long run He never leaves decent folk in the lurch. Often He may test them, He may send trials upon them, but in the long run He always lets His sun shine upon them once more and at the end He gives them His blessing.
Adolf Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Buckeburg held on 3 Oct. 1937
My friend, this is not someone faint of heart and improvised in spirit-NO! Here is one who exudes a “God-like confidence,” that instills the finest and best into his people. No, again, he does not commend his own capacities for valor nor courage-but he imbues the German soul with an uplifted aspiration replete with transforming might and empowerment beyond one’s wildest imagination. He crystallizes their wholeness, he encapsulates a profound insight into what it means to be distinctly German in every noble way-and he does it all with a cacophony of praise and adulation upon his people, who resoundingly reflect his image and become the very image they behold! No wonder they must adore him, no wonder they must follow him-he alone is worthy to be their Fuhrer, their indomitable LEADER; their Moses who must lead them out of their wilderness into their Promised Land of fullness!
Don’t be so foolish to adjudge them so gullible and childish in their adoration of such a man-to be German in such an age of humiliation was a tragic shame. Yet, here was one who out of his poverty and German despair, infused them with such a vision of what they could be and should be that they literally came out of their impoverished selves into the wealth of his embrace-THEY WERE BORN AGAIN!
Represented throughout these quotes is a man who demonstrates “faith at work” on the noblest of levels. Working hand and glove with the Almighty in a DIVINE COOPERATION upon the earth-here is one who exemplifies a vital dependence, expectant of God’s richest blessings upon all who merit His care through utter dependence upon His good graces. He is a witness to the Scriptural pattern of testing, tribulation, and trials that lead to intimate reliance upon the Almighty. Dear friend, Hitler projected his God as wholly empathetic to the most sacred needs of humanity-a personal, close-in God of infinite understanding and compassion upon those whom the Almighty molds into His useful vessel-if you cannot see this on the surface of his words, then perhaps you would have been one of the very few who did not!
“SEPARATION” OF CHURCH AND STATE or “INSEPARABLE” SEPARATION
“National Socialism has always affirmed that it is determined to take the Christian Churches under the protection of the State….
“The decisive factor which can justify the existence alike of Church and State is the maintenance of men’s spiritual and bodily health, for if that health were destroyed it would mean the end of the State and also the end of the Church….
“It is my sincere hope that thereby for Germany, too, through free agreement there has been produced a final clarification of spheres in the functions of the State and of one Church.” –Adolf Hitler, on a wireless on 22 July, the evening before the Evangelical Church Election
“The German Church and the People are practically the same body. Therefore there could be no issue between Church and State. The Church, as such, has nothing to do with political affairs. On the other hand, the State has nothing to do with the faith or inner organization of the Church. The election of November 12th would be an expression of Church constituency, but not as a Church.”–Adolf Hitler, answering C. F. MacFarlane about Church & State (in his book, The New Church and the New Germany)
“The National Socialist State professes its allegiance to positive Christianity. It will be its honest endeavor to protect both the great Christian Confessions in their rights, to secure them from interference with their doctrines (Lehren), and in their duties to constitute a harmony with the views and the exigencies of the State of today.” –Adolf Hitler, on 26 June 1934, to Catholic bishops to assure them that he would take action against the new pagan propaganda.
“So long as they concern themselves with their religious problems the State does not concern itself with them. But so soon as they attempt by any means whatsoever-by letters, Encyclical, or otherwise-to arrogate to themselves rights which belong to the State alone we shall force them back into their proper spiritual, pastoral activity.”—Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered in Berlin on the May Day festival, 1937
Here is a most deliberate attempt to separate the “spheres of influence” through double speak. To say that “separate but equal” was truly equal in America’s school systems was a falsehood perpetrated by our highest court–the Supreme Court (later it was overturned). Hitler’s “spheres of function” were altogether up building insofar as the Church’s sphere was concerned–for without the spiritual health of Germany, there would be no bodily health!
How essential had become the Church’s role in building a new Germany from the ashes of the Weimar curse? Plenty, in every way. The accolades heaped upon the spirituality of the German Church appear foremost in Hitler’s quest to ingratiate himself with the IMAGE of his creation-though unbeknownst to his followers. In practicality-and if one took him at his word-there was no separation of Church and State. Perhaps in name only-but to view the State without the Church, would be to actualize a SOULESS STATE-inwardly dead, without a spirit, utterly lifeless; without meaning, and moral compass.
Could we not conclude that Hitler’s National Socialism had fused Church and State so closely together that to see one, you’d have to see the other-he that hath seen ME (i.e., the German State personified in Hitler) has seen the Fatherland (whose spirit was the Church)? No shallow theology here-a captivating indignity to Holy Writ was born in this devilish collaboration and identification. Yet, was his subtlety so fine that the appearance of Church & State separation was his theme-but was it? I don’t think so-not in the final analysis; until the day he fully turned and devoured her.
THE CONCORDAT WITH ROME
“The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism [Nazism] is hostile to religion is a lie.”–Adolf Hitler, 22 July 1933, writing to the Nazi Party (quoted from John Cornwell’s “Hitler’s Pope”
The Vatican, a far easier catch for Hitler than the splintering of their Protestant counterparts, could easily conclude such an agreement because of its own political viability and embrace of Statehood. Who rides the Beast? Or, better yet, who seeks moral legitimacy and acceptance? Clearly, Hitler’s State welcomed such acknowledgement-and did so wholeheartedly and with celebration.
The desire for moral covering by the State to prosecute its agenda of evil was precisely the ticket given to Hitler-and he used the free ride to the uttermost! Now, Kristal Nacht (i.e., the Night of Broken Glass) could take place, now open season on Jews, Gypsies, and all counter-culture pests and vermin could be unleashed with moral impunity, and so it was.
HITLER’S PROVIDENTIAL INTERVENTIONS
“I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.”
Adolf Hitler, in a speech to old members of the Party at Munich on 8 Nov. 1933
“What we are we have become not against, but with, the will of Providence. And so long as we are true and honorable and of good courage in fight, so long as we believe in our great work and do not capitulate, we shall continue to enjoy in the future the blessing of Providence.”
–Adolf Hitler, at Rosenheim in Bavaria, 11 Aug. 1935
“Providence has caused me to be Catholic and I know therefore how to handle this Church.” –Adolf Hitler, reportedly to have said in Berlin in 1936 on the enmity of the Catholic Church to National Socialism
“I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright.”Adolf Hitler, in a speech to National Socialist women at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1936 [11 Sept. 1936]
“We National Socialists, too, have deep in our hearts our own faith. We cannot do otherwise. No man can mould the history of peoples or of the world unless he has upon his will and his capacities the blessing of Providence.” –Adolf Hitler, to Nazi leaders on 2 June 1937, as reported by a correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph”
“I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other….You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way which Providence ordained for it when it gave to Germans the common language. So we go forward with the profoundest faith in God into the future. Would that which we have achieved have been possible if Providence had not helped us?”—Adolf Hitler, in a speech at Regensburg on 6 June1937
Hitler’s constant appeal to divine intervention (i.e., providence), and Germany’s resurrection through the birth of the National Socialist Party, were incessant and expected. The movement curried the favor of the divine blessing and presence. The smile of God was upon Germany because God Almighty, with His unseen hand and direction, had provided all that was necessary and spiritual to create the New Germany of Adolf Hitler.
Some naïve souls out there, whose academic endeavors attempt to reinterpret history, assume that the inevitability of Nazi Germany would have occurred regardless if there would have been a Hitler or not-what naivety! Conjecture all you wish: Without Hitler, there would NOT have been Nazi Germany, and that’s my final answer. In retrospect and from the fallen perspective of Nazi Germany-Hitler was God’s man for the hour!
SPIRITUAL UNITY THROUGH HITLER
“While we destroyed the Center Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road, which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co-operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.”—Adolf Hitler, in his New Year Message on 1 Jan. 1934
“So far as the Evangelical Confessions are concerned we are determined to put an end to existing divisions, which are concerned only with the forms of organization, and to create a single Evangelical Church for the whole Reich….
“And we know that were the great German reformer [Martin Luther] with us today he would rejoice to be freed from the necessity of his own time and, like Ulrich von Hutten, his last prayer would be not for the Churches of the separate States: it would be of Germany that he would think and of the Evangelical Church of Germany.”—Adolf Hitler, in his Proclamation at the Parteitag at Nuremberg on 5 Sept. 1934
“Remain strong in your faith, as you were in former years. In this faith, in its close–knit unity our people today goes straight forward on its way and no power on earth will avail to stop it.”—Adolf Hitler, in a speech at Coburg on 15 Oct. 1937
In order to secure the full moral covering of the Church, Hitler had to coronate her unity through the Concordat with Rome and the establishment of a unified Evangelical Church expression. Thence, all priests and ministers were brought together as one faith in two confessions.
Eventually (but no matter) the evangelical wing of this twosome was impossible to solidify-but this didn’t stop Hitler’s march toward Church unity. He simply claimed victory no matter what the Protestants looked like on paper-as far as he was concerned, the union of the Evangelical Church was complete; and, so was the Catholic and Protestant union of faith. The cooperation between the two Confessions to legitimize the State’s agenda was accomplished-details would come later. And, do you think that such union came about through decrees alone? Not so, the man many of you presumed had not a spiritual bone in his body was ubiquitous in his appearance and in hustling of German Protestants and Catholics-likewise did his political ministers curry the favor of the religious leadership of the nation, let alone its pew members. The “wine and dine” methodologies, which work so well in today’s Churchianity, were extremely effective in Hitler’s Germany-there is nothing new under the sun.
What we witness today in the halls of our Capitol and White House is regretfully similar-but then, again, does not our government represent all the people? And, with such vast constituencies, should not the “elect” gain access to those who lead them in civil affairs? Today, those evangelical leaders who anointed our President with oil, and laid their “holy hands” upon his head and shoulders in the Texas Governor’s Mansion on that fateful day in 1999, as he declared his intentions to run for President of this great land, are they not the same ones who have repeated invitations to counsel with the highest office in the land? Shut out are the likes of the Roman Catholic Bishops and the National Council of Churches. Gone are the days of futile moral covering-welcome are those who have learned to stand in the gap and provide both votes and victory to the Commander-in-Chief. Furthermore, it pays to pray-to pray for the one who reflects your values and your spirituality!
GERMANY’S WORST NIGHTMARE COULD BE AMERICA’S
“Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions.”–Adolf Hitler, speaking in the Reichstag on 30 Jan. 1934
So enshrined was Germany’s spirituality in the mind of Hitler, that he took a quantum leap and linked the elimination of all political parties (save his National Socialist Party), as barriers to Germany’s religious rebirth and awakening. By the sacrifice of political competition, the enthronement of Germany’s spirituality could be realized! Imagine using religion to such an extent that it somehow legitimized the abolition of all political parties in Nazi Germany! This is unbelievable chutzpah on a scale so far out there that even the Pope cannot attain to it.
It would appear that by such elimination, Christianity’s greatest hour had arrived-or was told it had arrived. But if you are going to tell a lie so immense and all encompassing, so absurd and ridiculous-why not shoot the gap, as they say, and blow the whole thing totally out of proportion to any reality? And so blatant was this lie that the people relished the thought and succumbed to its insanity! That’s how absurd things had become-but I bet you never guessed that this was the reason he abolished all those political parties, did you?
No, I must confess, I can’t see America sliding down the same pathway-not exactly in this way; although the thought, in the minds of some, that our current political parties are one in the same, disturbs me a little and the absurd nature of the American independent Party, the Libertarian Party, and the Green Party, etc., is of no small consolation either-in essence, some think we have but one political party of elites governing the masses in any event! But, I would have to conclude the religious card has, as yet, not been so dramatized nor discovered to the extent that Hitler utilized it before the Reichstag.
CARING FOR THE VULNERABLE-HITLER VS. THE CHURCH
“It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole…. If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.”—Adolf Hitler, in his speech on 30 Jan. 1934
Quite the challenge-wouldn’t you say? Even so, what have we here? The Church is enjoined to “care for the sick” lest they procreate and produce offspring who, because of their parents, cannot care for themselves? Indeed, the State “at least” has compassion to eliminate, through sterilization, such babes (before they are ever born) whose parents are mentally and/or physically remiss to care for their own-so what should the Church do to lift this burden from society? Think about it. Hitler was the master of such social engineering with the Church. The point here is challenging the keepers of the moral fiber of the nation-Hitler really did believe that the Church should pick up this burden-it is difficult to believe they did-witness the exhaust gasses that poured into the cabins of trucks filled with the mentally ill and the physically challenged. Such was the “social consciousness” of Nazi Germany’s “mercy killings.”
WE ARE GOD’S PEOPLE–HIS REDEEMER NATION-HITLER
“We have experienced a miracle, something unique, something the like of which there has hardly been in the history of the world. God first allowed our people to be victorious for four and a half years, then He abased us, laid upon us a period of shamelessness, but now after a struggle of fourteen years he has permitted us to bring that period to a close. It is a miracle, which has been wrought upon the German People…. It shows us that the Almighty has not deserted our people, that He received it into favor at the moment when it rediscovered itself. And that our people shall never again lose itself, that must be our vow so long as we shall live and so long as the Lord gives us the strength to carry on the fight.”—Adolf Hitler, in a speech to the “Old Guard” of the Party at Munich on 19 March 1934
Throughout these “spiritual quotations” of Adolf Hitler, there is a keen awareness that in some mysterious fashion, this man actually believed what he was saying. Raised a Catholic, he did aspire to some form of spirituality-and, he certainly took his own spirituality seriously. To Hitler, the acknowledgement of one’s spirituality, of German spirituality, was recognition of divine intervention in the affairs of man, and in his case, of the German nation.
A great deal has been made by many of Hitler’s love affair with the occult. We do not deny his absorption therewith (e.g., Joseph Carr’s THE TWISTED CROSS). However, the “public persona” of one Adolf Hitler was one steeped in Christian tradition-German traditional religious practice and imagery. He somehow knew what made the German soul tick and what really made most of mankind tick. His realization of what could motivate the human soul (mind, will and emotion) to its grandiose heights was decisively religious (i.e., the Christian religious expression) in its public manifestation.
Hitler’s resort to divine participation in the affairs of the German people was brilliant and even strangely sincere. “God brought Germany 4.5 years of victory and then the shame of defeat for the next fourteen. Now, the same God who foreordained our demise has deemed us worthy of a far greater future than we could imagine-it is a miracle!” (My quotes) Hitler gives the Almighty all praise and honor for His intervention and Germany’s rebirth. No surprise, if you’ve read everything that has gone before.
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