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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Nazis And Christians

Lefty moonbats in America love to compare the conservative movement to the Nazi movement by calling the Nazis right wing when in fact they were secular socialists, lefties in other words. The religion of the state and its government were its tenets. Bruce Walker in a must read article for American Thinker looks at the decline of Christianity in Germany prior to Hitler and the Nazis rise to power and their hatred of religion in general and Christians and Jews in particular and rejection of Judeo-Christian morality.

Weimar Germany largely had abandoned Christianity and increasingly was embracing hedonism, Marxism and paganism. There, decline of Christianity in Germany led directly to the rise of Nazism. Professor Henri Lichtenberger in his 1937 book, The Third Reich, describes the religious life of the Weimar Republic as a place in which the large cities were "spiritual cemeteries" with almost no believers at all, except for those who were members of the clergy. The middle class went through the motions, but lacked all living faith. The workers, influenced by socialism, were suspicious of the church. Even in the countryside, preachers had little influence on the people. In the 1938 book, The War Against God, by Sidney Dark and R.S. Essex, describes pre-Nazi antipathy toward Christianity by noting that churches had lost all their vitality and that their services were lifeless. Mower, in his 1938 book, Germany Puts the Clock Back, wrote that by 1920, God and Christianity had been in steady decline, a process that had begun in 1860. Mower talks about a culture not so much casual as vicious about sexuality. He writes of art sickened into atonal music, about the absence of any sense of sin, about entire graduating classes in high school turning up for birth control devices, and about the commonplace occurrence of abortion.

Doesn't that sound an awful lot what the left is trying to do to America, removal of God from the public space, hypersexualization and eugenics? The exact opposite of the largely Christian conservative movement's policies that put God over country, small limited government over an all powerful all controlling huge central gov't. The left just like the Nazis worship the government and want it to control all aspects of the individuals life from birth to death and that we should all work for the good of the state not the good of ourselves and families. The left claims to not want to live under a Nazi gov't while pushing the very same policies that were pursued in Nazi Germany.

7 comments:

shoprat said...

I read this earlier today. If people knew what Hitler was they would see his face all over the Democratic Party. Nazism and Communism are not opposites, they are twin brothers.

Ron Simpson said...

the rhetoric of Nazism and Communism were different, but their goals, in the end were the same. The liberals of America use a blend of the two rhetorics and propganda. It irritates me that they accuse me, as a conservative of being akin to the Nazis.

Goat said...

Ron, it seems the Nazis were/are far more racist in their retoric than the Communists were/are. The communists were/are more class oriented than race oriented, they didn't care who they enslaved or killed but you right that their ultimate goals were similar. They both brutally repressed religious faith as aposty to the state that sought to be god. The loony left is much the same here as they try to use the courts to remove God in favor of the state.

Goat said...

Shoprat, I would say more like twin brother and sister ideologies than twin brothers.

Anonymous said...

Winston Churchill on Nazism vs Christian civilisation:

"he Battle of France is over. I expect that the battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may more forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their Finest Hour.'

—House of Commons, 18 June 1940, following the collapse of France. Many thought Britain would follow.

Goat said...

Naj, great quote, I was familiar with the last line.

Witch-king of Angmar said...

I'm not surprised by what I read. The Great War of 1914-1918 is the seed of the modern spiritual downfall of Europe and it is no wonder that Germany, along with Soviet Russia(but under different circumstances) was the first to experience such a moral void.