Gary wrote: > if you can, pls supply a valid historical reference, > otherwise known as a footnote, below: > > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:55:25 -0500 "David Miller" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <<At the time of [Hitler's] rise to power, > the Catholic Church and many Protestant > churches supported him, much like this > same group protests the war in Iraq right now. >>
The statement here is original with me, based upon my own studies, so a footnote is not appropriate. We already discussed this before and I don't have the time to write a book and reproduce a lot of sources for you right now on this subject. They evidently didn't impress you when I gave them to you last year, so I doubt that my taking time to give them to you again would help now. Anyone who takes the time to read "Mein Kampf" would see quite readily that Adolf Hitler was a Christian who professed faith in Jesus Christ, spoke highly of the Christian religion, and considered the Christian religion more important than the state. Hitler showed knowledge of the Scriptures, regularly quoting the Bible to justify his position. Hitler's father wanted Adolf to go into the ministry, and Hitler at one time had planned to do so, but his love for art (painting) and then the state took him along a different path. Hitler believed and openly confessed that he was doing God's will. Many Christian sects, especially the Roman Catholics and the Lutherans, supported him with rallies, money, speeches, and in numerous other ways. The only Christian sect outwardly against him that I know of was the Confessional Church of which Deitrich Boenhoeffer was a part. Last year I shared the following link with you: http://www.freethought-web.org/ctrl/quotes_hitler.html The link is from a non-religious source with an anti-Christian bias, but the pictures themselves should help show you that Hitler was not the atheistic, anti-Christian dictator that many Christians today try to paint him out to be. It is human nature to change history after the fact, to view it in a different way than what was happening at the time. Everybody, Christians and non-Christians alike, want to distance themselves from Adolf Hitler today, and so a picture is painted of him by the Christians as someone who was not a Christian, and a picture is painted of him by the non-Christians was someone who definitely was Christian. If you want the truth, you will have to read Adolf Hitler's own writings and judge for yourself. Also read what the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant sects were doing when Hitler was rising to power. Most of them supported him and only distanced themselves from him later. You might consider some of the following quotes, most of which I'm sure that I shared already with you last year: "Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or destruction of a state, let alone a party." -Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf" "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so." ( Adolf Hitler, from John Toland, Adolf Hitler, New York: Anchor Publishing, 1992, p. 507. ) ----- "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." (Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler. 1971. Translated by Ralph Manheim, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston) ----- "My feeling as a Christian points 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 and who, God's truth! 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 against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before 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." ( Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered at Munich, April 12, 1922; from Norman H. Baynes, ed., The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1, New York: Oxford University Press, 1942, p. 19. ) ----- "And now Staatspr�sident Bolz says that Christianity and the Catholic faith are threatened by us. And to that charge I can answer: In the first place it is Christians and not international atheists who now stand at the head of Germany." ( Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered at Stuttgart, February 15, 1933. ) ----- Peace be with you. David Miller, Beverly Hills, Florida. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
