Nazism And Christian Conservatism
By Joseph Kellard
America is moving toward a Nazi form of totalitarianism, Dr. Leonard
Peikoff writes in his book The Ominous Parallels. It has been doing
this for decades. It has been doing so gradually, by default, and for
the most part unknowingly, but it is doing so systematically and
without significant opposition.
For many decades now Christian conservatives have been relentlessly
preaching that secularism has caused America's decay and therefore its
salvation lies in the fostering of faith in God, religious morality,
and family values. Unknowingly, they've been propagating sentiments
that ominously parallel Adolf Hitler's.
As a means to manipulate others and gain total control of Germany,
Hitler agreed with both his liberal peers who demanded state control
of economics and the redistribution of men's income, as well as his
conservative peers who demanded state control over men's intellect and
bodies.
In Freethought Today, a newspaper published by the Freedom From
Religion Foundation, Richard E. Smith provides one of Hitler's many
appeals to Christianity: During his February 1, 1933, radio speech,
'Proclamation to German People' Hitler began by saying 'the Almighty
has withheld his blessing from our people' since the loss of World War
I in November 1918. Beginning with the family, he went on to pledge a
fostering of 'Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of racial and political life.' He went on
to make a pious appeal (prayer) for God's blessing on the work. .
Often today, Mr. Smith writes, the word holocaust is used by those
against abortion [i.e., Christian conservatives]. This of course
conjures up images of the slaughter of Jews and others (one group
frequently overlooked in the killing are atheists) during World War
II. Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf, made plain his Catholic feelings on
abortion. 'I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to
her...Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion shall be
exterminated with strong hand.' Hitler sentenced so-called Aryan women
who had abortions to hard labor after the first offense, to death
after the second. (Some Christian conservatives suggest that a woman
should be sentenced to death after her first abortion) Leonard Peikoff
writes: Religious writers often claim that the cause of Nazism is the
secularism or the scientific spirit of the modern world. This evades
the facts that the Germans at the time, especially in Prussia, were
one of the most religious peoples in Western Europe; that the Weimer
Republic was a hotbed of mystic cults, of which Nazism was one; and
that Germany's largest and most devout religious group, the Lutherans,
counted themselves among Hitler's staunchest followers.
By upholding faith in God, religion and family as America's
foundation, and using these ideals as the basis for certain actions,
such as requiring prayer and allowing the posting of the Ten
Commandments in certain public institutions, the Christian
conservatives are helping to erode this country's essential
foundation: the secularism of reason, egoism and individualism the
primary values Hitler had to suffocate in order to gain dictatorial
control of a nation and perpetrate his evils.
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[W]hether advanced as a form of or successor to Christianity, what
Nazism did unfailingly demand of its followers was the essence of the
religious mentality: an attitude of awed, submissive, faithful
adoration.
Leonard Peikoff
Nazism And Christian Conservatism
By Joseph Kellard
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References
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2. http://www.knoton.com/den/pol/nazism.html
3. http://www.knoton.com/
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