By: David Rice
To: Jennifer Lynne
Re: Hitler (again)
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with: Jesse C. Jones

>JCJ> Adolph Hitler, in my opinion, is a mutant product of
>JCJ> modernism. His past association with the Catholic Church
>JCJ> only reflects where he came from. Christian churches
>JCJ> share the shame of Western civilization, which allowed
>JCJ> the Holocaust. But Hitler was no Christian.

JL> No, he was a product of a xtian society.

   For century after century after century, the Christian
   church had designated the people to be despised: the
   religious believers called Jews the "Christ killers,"
   the "enemies of God." All the religious massacres of
   900 years--- by Crusaders pursuing infidels, by
   inquisitors hunting backsliders, by superstitious mobs
   fearing tales of well-poisoning--- branded Jews as
   accursed. When popes ordered Jews to wear badges and
   live in ghettos--- or when they were expelled
   entirely--- it told the populace that these pariahs
   were unfit to live among decent folk. Passion plays
   depicting Jews as cruel mockers of Christ, and
   cathedral paintings of the evil non-Christians, fanned
   hatred of those the church called "the perfidious Jews."

   Thus, when Adolf Hitler needed a scapegoat group to
   rally the discontented majority to his cause and
   catapult himself to power, natural victims clearly
   marked by the church were at his disposal. The Christian
   public, not only in Germany but also throughout Europe,
   was predisposed to receive the Nazi message of
   Jew-hatred.

That is from James A. Haught's "Holly Horrors," pg. 157-158.
Also from that book we read:

   "The Holocaust was, of course, the bitter fruit of long
   centuries of Christian teaching about the Jewish people."
      (Dr. Franklin Littell, Temple University.)

As well as

   ". . . centuries of Christian hostility to Jews prepared
   the way for the Holocaust. The Nazis are inconcievable
   apart from this Christian tradition. Hitler's pongrom, for
   all its distinctiveness, is the zenith of a long Christian
   heritage of teaching and practive against Jews."
      (Theologian Clark Williamson, Christian Theological
      Seminary, Indianapolis.)

And

   "The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the
   yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the
   burning of the people--- Hitler learned it all from the
   Church. However, the Church burned Jewish women and children
   alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking
   them first with gas." "The clergymen don't tell you whom to
   kill; they just tell you whom to hate."
      (Dr. Dagobert Runes, Historian, child of a Holocaust
      victim.)

After the truth of what Nazi Germany had done was disclosed, some
15 years after the events, Pope John XXIII was agast at what had
been done to the Jews in the name of God and Jesus. He wrote a
prayer and addressed it to the Christian world:

   "The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the
   centuries, our brother Abel has lain in blood which we
   drew, and shed tears we caused by forgetting Thy love.
   Forgive us, Lord, for the curse we falsely attributed to
   their name as Jews."

While his heart was in the right place, surely it is not his god's
place to forgive Christians and Christianity, but the place of the
Jews to do so.

--- Maximus 2.01wb
 * Origin: Richard Milhous Nixon, American Hero.  RIP. (1:124/9005)