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Dear Bill,
Please study:-
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and then the rest of the site and please tell your contacts to do the same.
Peace be upon you,
JAH.
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From: Bill Kingsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [CTRL] Modern Fascism : Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview
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> Modern Fascism : Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview
> (Concordia Scholarship Today)
> by Gene Edward Veith
> Paperback - 187 pages (February 1993)
> Concordia Pub House; ISBN: 0570046033
>
> Synopsis:
>
> This new book in the Concordia Scholarship Today Series examines
> how fascist views permeate modern philosophy, art, movies, and
> eugenics -- decades after the defeat of the Axis powers in World
> War II. Dealing with a variety of fascist thought -- from the
> intellectuals to the skinheads -- Veith shows how the fascist's
> focus on self and human will is in direct opposition to the
> Christian's faith in a righteous God. (Concordia Publishing House)
>
>
> Customer Comments:
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>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Fairhope, Alabama , March 20, 1999
>
> The New Pagans - Veith exposes the real fascism today.
>
> Prof. Gene Edward Veith, a Lutheran professor of English at
> Concordia Univ. in Wisconsin, if anything else, has taken a word
> which has come to be used as a contentless, empty and generalized
> "catch-all" insult, and has attempted to remind a historically
> ignorant generation of what "fascism" was really all about in the
> 1930's and 1940's and from whom, whence, and what sources this
> terrible political and philosophical system was derived, the form
> it took then, and the form it takes today.
>
> First of all, Veith has a smiling Ezra Pound on the cover giving
> the fascist salute in 1958. This picture is not meant to cleverly
> provoke, but to show, as is detailed in the chapter, "The Beautiful
> Ideas Which Kill", that in his allegiance to fascism, Pound and
> some of his artistic and intellectual allies, Imagist poet T.E.
> Hulme, George Bernard Shaw, and the pre-war Wyndham Lewis, found
> the political vehicle of fascism (to them at least) a very logical
> outgrowth of their theories and views of art and life. The
> celebration of "the primitive", the concrete over the abstract,
> and overall contempt for the "bourgeois, moderate, classical..."
> (quoting from Thomas Mann), in favor of the Nietzchean and
> Dionysean unrestraint represent not any kind of a current
> "conformity" to classical and historical traditions but at the
> time, the very "avant-garde" throwing off of all such shackle.
>
> There are many such illustrations of the sort, which Veith uses not
> for purpose of mere "high-brow" name-dropping or ad hominem
> indictment, but for the deeper meaning of the book itself: Fascism
> has always been on the cutting edge, and the people who first loved
> and propagandized it were not bourgeois businessmen in suits, but
> the writers, artists, poets, and philosophers. It is important to
> realize that one reason that the Jewish people were singled out for
> castigation was that they represented a transcendent intellectual
> order, anti-paganism and moralism. Although it has become a matter
> of cliche, Frederich Nietzche really did popularize many of these
> ideas in works such as "The Will to Power", where Judaism and
> Christianity were systems of weakness and artificial supports for
> weaknesses in their hindrance of man's primordial will and drive to
> power and action.
>
> "Modern Fascism" covers eugenics, abortion, political ideology, and
> religion in addition to the artistic and philosophical aspects of
> fascism, marking his obvious subject: the National Socialist state
> of Hitler's Germany. Veith offers disparate examples of how history
> has been revised and ignored to the absurd point that "fascism" is
> now considered somehow "conservative", and the opposite of the
> Left. Actually, the extreme Right and the extreme Left are two
> competing sides of the same fascistic coin (i.e. National Socialism
> (Nazism) and International Socialism (Marxism). Veith also debunks
> (as have numerous others) the pernacious myth that Nazism was
> somehow Christian. The truth is that Hitler perverted and used
> "God-words" for his own end, and eventually dropped them altogether
> once complete power was gained. The German Protestant Church had
> become so weakened by liberalism and humanistic thought, that it
> was powerless to resist. True Christians such as Dietrich
> Bonhoeffer were executed.
>
> Finally, one of the most interesting and frightening sections is
> the end where Veith links much of modern 1990's culture in America
> with the very same fascism it falsely purports to hate. The very
> modern return to paganism and Gnostic/New Age type religions (in a
> friendly face) and the celebration of the violent, arrogant, and
> unrestrained raw sexuality in film, television, literature, and
> music is indeed very close to the old fascism in truth no matter
> how many "anti-Fascist messages" are attempted. The popular culture
> and modern media which was used by the Nazis (Leni Reifenstahl's
> use of cinema, the mass rally, etc.) to pound home their message
> also sounds current. Veith also reminds us that the Nazis were
> supreme environmentalists, criticizing the mercantile and urban
> Jews for creating "alienation" between man and nature.
>
> There is a very real problem with skinheads and white racist and
> anti-Semitic groups of hooligans in both the U.S. and Europe. But
> there is also a much more subtle and less overt form of it in the
> academic community where political correctness is enforced and
> books are not burned, but "deconstructed." At the very least, the
> modern academic community which immerses itself in this nonsense
> will have no ground nor the tools to fight fascism if it ever comes
> here politically, with power to be enforced. At the worst, they are
> collaborators with it. Professor Veith is sure to be criticized by
> those who are convinced that Fascism consists solely of either
> grainy, black & white newsreels of goose-stepping German officers
> or all people who want to "impose their morality" on others, but I
> believe he is prescient and absolutely correct in his general
> thesis that modern Fascism is ultimately paganism in modern dress.
> Veith's final sentence encapsulates the book: "Fascism is the
> modern world's nostalgia for paganism. It is a sophisticated
> culture's revolt against God."
>
>
>
> A reader from Northern CA , February 27, 1999
>
> Missing the mark
>
> Methinks the Prof is way off base when in such a Cartesian manner
> he pits Nazism against Christianism. How soon they forget that
> Nazis WERE Christians, albeit Catholic Christians, and darned good
> ones, too, in the sense that they followed the dogma to its
> necessary conclusion: Death. No, if one wants to seek answers to
> such heady matters, one would be wiser, along with C.G. Jung, to
> look to the Gnostics for answers. If one must be dualistic, then
> let the battle cry be "I'd rather be a Gnostic than a Nazi." For it
> is the Gnostic Jesus who has the solution, but one must open one's
> mind first, mustn't one?
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Wichita Falls, TX , December 21, 1997
>
> Fascism is back with a new face: postmodernism.
>
> The parallels between the philosophies that led directly to
> the Third Reich, and those currently in vogue among today's
> intellectual elite are stunning and undeniable. Postmodernism
> and its offspring, political correctness, represent nothing more
> nor less than fascism with (for the moment) a smiling face.
> Veith has done his homework well; his exceptionally
> well-documented book exposes the moral vacuum into which
> today's young people are being sucked.
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Chicago area, IL , October 17, 1997
>
> Fascism with a modern mask threatens all of our freedoms.
>
> This highly readable book shows how fascism is creeping into our
> culture. Under the label New Age, we are moving away from morality
> which places value on the individual to morality which makes the
> individual serve the needs of the community. Just like Nazi
> morality, this morality has ties with paganism and the occult and
> is in direct opposition to Judaism and Christianity. Prof. Veith
> shows how this change started with fascism in the academic
> community. If you value freedom, read this book.
>
>
>
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