Maybe because of the death of Pope Benedict XVI or something else going on, I noticed a blip online of linking Hitler and Christianity as well as the Nazi movement to Christianity.
This is, of course, absurd.
Those espousing this are simply linking two things they don’t like. I mean, is it plausible in any way shape or form that Hitler worshipped Jesus who was Jewish?
But the animosity that the Nazi Party held for Christianity is obvious.
The Daily Mail once reported that:
… the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration.
… ‘Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis – after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child,’ Judith Breuer told the German newspaper Spiegel. ‘The most important celebration in the year didn’t fit with their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less Christian.’
The exhibition includes swastika-shaped cookie-cutters and Christmas tree baubles shaped like Iron Cross medals.
The Nazis attempted to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape of swastikas, and they replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas, who traditionally brings German children treats on December 6, with the Norse god Odin.
The symbol that posed a particular problem for the Nazis was the star, which traditionally decorates Christmas trees.
… The is a legacy of the Nazi Christmas. The wartime version of the traditional Christmas carol ‘Unto us a time has come’ is still sung. ‘The Nazis took out the references to Jesus and made it into a song about walking through the snow,’ Breuer said.
The International Herald Tribune reported in 1937:
1937 — ‘Neo-Pagans’ Target Carols
BERLIN — De-Christianization of famous German Christmas hymns, such as “Silent Night, Holy Night,” is the outstanding contribution to the current holiday season of the rapidly spreading German faith movement or “religion” of National Socialism. In the new versions of the old songs reference to Nazi tenets of race, blood and soil replace familiar words concerning Christ, Child and the like. The accepted English translation of Mohr’s “Silent Night,” stanza three lines two and three is: “The Son of God loves pure light, radiant beams from thy Holy faith.” Equivalent lines in the Nazified version are “German blood, O how laugh the lips of thy children, blessed with joy.”
Does this sound like the Nazis were embracing Christianity?
The No Pasaran! website writes: “An eye-opening 2009 exhibit at Cologne’s National Socialism Documentation Centre featured early Nazi propaganda employed to make over the holidays: swastika-shaped cookie-cutters; sunburst tree-toppers, to replace the traditional ornament Nazis feared looked too much like the Star of David; and rewritten lyrics to carols that excised all references to Christ.“
Nazism was fascism linked to the scientific movement of eugenics which was all the rage at the time among leftists in Europe and America.
Some will stop at nothing to link it to Christianity. Don’t believe them.
January 2, 2023 at 10:27 am
When you control the present you control the past. When you control the past, you control the future. Progressivism has become the dominant culture – and they eagerly use and abuse that privilege.
January 2, 2023 at 10:28 am
Video:
“DEBATE: Would There Have Been a Holocaust Without Hitler?”
(From Exodus Series)
(9: 14)
Denis Prager:
“This is so relevant to our themes of of the need for God and religion so this is a secular Jew writing this the great German poet Heine, Heinrich Heine.”
Heinrich Heine:
“Christianity, and this is its greatest Merit, has somewhat mitigated that brutal German love of War but it could not destroy it. Should that subduing Talisman The Cross be shattered, the frenzied Madness of the ancient warriors that insane berserk Rage of which Nordic bards have spoken and sung so often will once more burst into flame. This Talisman The Cross is fragile, and the day will come when it will collapse miserably, then a play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent walk in the park.”
January 3, 2023 at 11:04 am
My internet newsfeed is MSN, which is liberal at best.
The stories on Pope Benedict and the comments responding to them over the last couple of days have been full of anti-Catholicism, misinformation, and outright prejudice and bigotry. One story even accused Pope Benedict of being a “member of the Nazi party”, even though he was an underaged teenager until 3 weeks before VE Day, which led to ignorant comments about Pope Pius supporting Hitler, et. al.
This may sound like an overreaction, but I sometimes wonder if this is how Naziism got started, with Hitler blaming the Jews for everything and creating lies about them.
I think it is important that we all learn as much apologetics as possible in order to defend our Church. The attacks on the Church are becoming more frequent and diabolical.
January 3, 2023 at 12:19 pm
“The attacks on the Church are becoming more frequent and diabolical.”
And frenzied. It seems as if people are under demonic control and nothing is holding back their hate of anyone who questions their motives and/or agenda. We all have read scripture where it says that all that is called good is now called evil and all that is evil is called good. We see this prophecy made manifest. All sanity and reason has been jettisoned from our culture. I now have to lie and call a man a woman and a woman a man lest I am prosecuted. Homosexuality is something to be proud of and gender dysphoria is to be promoted as normal, children allowed to be mutilated by adults to be something that is impossible to be.
The Church still holds the truth and it needs to be eliminated because of this truth. Our Lord and head of the Church was put to death. If we truly follow Christ then we should be ready to follow Him to our death.