![]() ![]() Trump himself has drawn criticism for his Monday, June 1 visit to St. In fact, a photograph of Bill Clinton holding a Bible in front of the exact same church surfaced shortly thereafter.Neal Boortz and Ted Cruz criticized Debra Messing for her Trump comparison. presidents have been photographed holding Bibles. Of course, Messing’s silly tweet overlooks the fact that numerous U.S. He answered, “Most German Protestants (and Protestantism was in the majority in Germany) by the twentieth century did not view the Bible as historically (or doctrinally) accurate, because they had embraced liberal theology, which denied that the biblical text was accurate.” Weikart told me, “Hitler rejected the Old Testament as book of Jewish provenance, and he scorned the apostle Paul, who wrote about half the New Testament, as a sneaky Jewish rabbi who corrupted Christianity from its earliest phases. He liked a few Bible stories that corresponded with his worldview, such as Jesus driving the Jews out of the temple because of their greed, or Jesus saying that he had come not to bring peace, but a sword. However, he forthrightly criticized Jesus’ teaching about turning the other cheek. He also once stated, ‘The New Testament is full of contradictions.’ Clearly Hitler did not have much respect for the Bible.”įurthermore, I asked Weikart if the German people prior to the rise of Hitler were steeped in the Bible-as many of them had been in previous centuries. Hitler even denied that Jesus was Jewish. Hitler denied that Jesus did miracles, that He was divine, that His death was anything but martyrdom, that He rose from the dead. This is just smattering of anti-Bible examples found in Weikart’s book, showing that Hitler had no tolerance for Christianity (although he sometimes hid that antipathy for political purposes).Īnd thus, Weikart provides this understatement, “Hitler did not have a very high opinion of the Bible.” “Hitler harshly castigated Christianity for not supporting his eugenics and racial ideology.”. ![]() ![]() “Many SS members followed Himmler’s example and encouragement to withdraw from the churches, and Hitler lauded them for their anti-church attitude.”.That even today one views the Christian doctrine of salvation as giving direction through a difficult life is completely incomprehensible.” The “Fuhrer” declared, “The idiocy of the Christian doctrine of salvation is for our time completely unusable….It would have been better, he stated, if the Bible had remained only in Latin, rather than causing mental disorders and delusions.” “Hitler lamented that the Bible had been translated into German, because this made Jewish doctrines readily available to the German people.According to Hitler, religious people like the Finns, who during long winters seek their religion in the Bible ‘must become mentally crippled’ and fall into ‘religious delusion.’” “He regretted that Finnish people’s religiosity was based on the Bible because it was permeated with Jewishness.“He saw the Old Testament as the antithesis of everything he stood for.”.“Since Hitler was a radical anti-Semite, his characterization of Christianity as a Jewish plot was about as harsh an indictment as he could bring against Christianity.Just a few quotes from Weikart’s book on Hitler and the Bible show how ignorant Messing’s tweet was, not to mention deceptive. ![]()
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