susan

Submitted by Sohail (United Kingdom), Apr 6, 2007 at 11:54

Where did Marx get his ideas? He got them from the New Testament which is a ...communist, racist book.

Hitler was a Christian:

The German words, "Gott Mit Uns" means God With Us and appeared on many Nazi soldiers belt buckles during WWII.

A Christian cross given to German mothers

Hitler encouraged several programs for the growth of a strong German Nazi Volk. These programs involved the encouragement of the virtues of German motherhood for the purpose of increasing the size of their families and the abolition of abortions (except for the mentally ill). In 1938, Hitler instituted a new award to honor German Nazi motherhood, especially for large families. He awarded such mothers the cross of Honor of the German Mother (Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter).

Although the German Iron cross usually appears symmetrical this particular cross, by lengthening the vertical member, it becomes a Christian cross:

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Hitler backed The German Christians movement (DC) with the party's organizational support.

Frauenschaft Badge

The National Socialist Women's Organization (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft, or NSF), affirmed all the recognized fundaments of Nazi ideology, including the preservation of Christian belief.

Lili Otto, one of the leaders of the NSF wrote in 1933:

"Our Frauenschaft flag carries the same colors as the Swastika flag, with our flag black stands out, solemn and worthy. On top shine forth the Christian cross in the color of purity, constantly warning us: 'You women and mothers, be real Christians; protect Christianity in your family, rear your children to love the savior.'"

Heimetfest event badge 1934

with swastika, cathedral and Alfeld city arms

A die struck gilded brass pin with a soldered spring pin

(An exmaple of mixing Church and State)

Nazi Army (Heer) chaplain's hat with silver Christian cross

Close-up of Jesus with a Nazi soldier.

In the Beginning was the Word (Am Anfang war das Wort)

A painting titled by Hermann Otto Hoyer depicts the glorification of Hitler in messiah-like fashion. The light over him falls on the listener. Hitler represents the bringer of light.

"In the Beginning was the Word" of course appears as the first words in the Gospel of John.

Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ, Oil/canvas, 1913

by Adolf Hitler

Observe that Jesus looks like a blond haired Aryan. Nazis did not consider Jesus a Jew.

[Note, this picture would make a wonderful Christmas card for those Christians who refuse to accept Hitler as a Christian.]

"How does Christian Nazi exegesis explain the absence of Jesus' Jewishness? Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a Christian anti-Semitic Englishman wrote an influential book called The Foundations of the 19th Century, in which he advanced the thesis of an Aryan Jesus rather than from Semitic blood. Chamberlain argued that Assyrians, Greeks, and Aryans colonized Galilee and the neighboring districts centuries before Christ. Hitler read Chamberlain during his Vienna period, and had a brief audience with the aging anti-Semite at the Wagner estate shortly before being sent to Landsberg Prison.

The Nazis also used the term "Mischling" to describe a person with partial Jewish ancestry. It literally means "mixed." As defined by the Nazi Nuremberg laws, a person having either one Jewish parent or two Jewish grandparents represented a Mischling of the first degree. Those with one Jewish grandparent represented a Mischling of the second degree. The Mischling definition excused some religious people including Protestants and Catholics from the "accursed" Jewish nature. Because many Christian Nazis believed that Jesus came from God, Jesus could also fall into a Mischling category if you believed that only one of his parents had Jewish blood. His Dad, no doubt looking very Aryan-like, produced a Son in His image who, according to Hitler's painting, looked like a blond haired Aryan baby."

Sohail

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