What is the Bible?

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE BIBLE?



BASIC

 INSTRUCTION

  BEFORE

   LEAVING

    EARTH

I heard this earlier today, and liked it. Makes sense to me!

Is America Changing? I Think So But There is Hope!

In the past number of years, I have noticed a few things which is why I decided to use my writing skills in order to address, and out right battle the ignorant, who are really loudmouths who win battles here and there because most people don't want to battle these kooks. I don't care about the kooks. If I believe that my views are right, (and we all know that I am), I have nothing to be ashamed of because in the end I have truth on my side so they can all go suck on an egg, or gargle with razor blades, or whatever they wish to do. I have been attacked and in one case asked to kill myself. Okie dokie! I'll kill myself because some uncircumcised Philistine with a warped view of reality sitting in their underwear on their dad's basement computer asks me to do so. Good luck! When I go out it will be by natural causes and that will only happen when God decides that He needs me there with Him instead of here with you. I know that the reason they attack me is because they know that I am quite effective with my various posts, and that worries them. When you cannot defend your position, you resort to name calling and mockery. It's kind of like telling an ACLU lawyer that you own a copy of the Benjamin Franklin Morris book called "The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States" which I just happen to own. That book written in 1864 is like holding a cross at Dracula! 

 

First, I have noticed that there is almost a complete breakdown in civility between those who hold "religious" views of life, and those who do not. Some have described this as a "Culture War." It is a war. A war for the lives and hearts and souls of every American. It is ultimately a battle of faith against unbelief. Like most wars begin, it has been a war of words, but I believe that this war of words is escalating into possible violence. While I do not personally wish that any violence take place, the fact is that these people are growing more and more "ballsy" and since they act as wolf packs, they think they are making progress, but I have news for them. People like me are beginning to say "enough." It starts with one person, and then two, and then who knows! When you have truth on your side, you have nothing to fear.

 

Unfortunately, many Christians today don't wish to become involved in advocacy or apologetics and are content to sit in church and pray. Really? Are we not called to be warriors for God? Should we not be putting on the whole armor of God and be prepared for battle (in a spiritual sense) every single day? Well, if you are one of these church pew praying types, great! Pray for me and people like me who have taken on the mantle and the crowbar to pry closed eyes open! Better yet, act locally! My personal view regarding mission work in this day and age is that my responsibility as a Christian is to be a light to the lost. If a conversation leads to religion, I tell them the "Good News" of Jesus Christ and His plan of salvation. After that, they are on their own and I won't push "my religion" on them. They personally accept or reject the Word, and if they accept, I will guide them. If they reject, I move on. Don't beat a dead horse. It only causes animosity.

 

I've noticed that people tell me that I shouldn't "force my religion down their throats" yet these very people are quick to tell me to keep out of their bedroom, keep out of their womb, keep out of their lifestyle and their perversions, etc... Perhaps they should stop forcing their views and unbelief down OUR throats!

 

How has it come to this? We Americans have historically been understanding people, and while we have held opposing views on many issues, mostly in the political realm, I have seen a steady decline in that civility. While some blame the right, and maybe there are some on my side that take a hard line stance, I personally blame the left. (Satan plays a role too, but it's his followers that are problematic).

 

Why? Well, for the purpose of simplicity, let me use color. The right tends to be one color. Red. We may be one shade or another, but overall we are one color. The left on the other hand is many colors and don't really think as one group like the right does, but they place their differences aside, and cooperate on things they have in common, for example the destruction of my country as we have known it, so they become a solid blue color ONLY as far as the common unity to oppose the right remains the goal.

 

It's not just political. Liberalism and secular humanism has permeated our schools and universities and what were once great institutions of learning, many founded by Christians for the Glory of God have become indoctrination centers.Our children go to school and are intimidated by teachers and professors because of their places of authority, and with the help of fools who know just enough about the Bible to make them dangerous, turn many young people from God, and from the values you have tried to instill in them. It is this indoctrination that has created this atmosphere of animosity and I am placing the blame right where I believe it belongs! The mission of public education has changed. It's major focus is no longer educating our children in subject matter. Here is a something I recently came across. The main purpose of public education is not to tolerate intolerance." Did you hear that? We can tolerate the people who shoot schools up. We can tolerate the drugs and alcohol and sex, and children being born to children, and blasphemy. We can tolerate bullying (which they claim that they don't) and harassment, but boy if you say that any of those things are wrong, you are judgmental, you are a bigot, you are a sexist, you are a homophobe. You are intolerant, so YOU are the problem, and you need to accept all of those other values as your own because we cannot tolerate intolerance. Huh?! Are these people serious? Do they think that people are stupid? Well, let me rephrase that because half of the people ARE stupid and believe this crap. I don't tolerate the stupid, and the whack jobs that spew this stuff. How's that for tolerance.

 

It's not just in this area. Myself along with many others have noticed that in recent years, certain word definitions are being "changed" by those driving the agenda. (I will comment on this in the future, but will touch on it here). They are changing things to make you seem like you are the problem, and that the real problem issues are normal. The Bible call these people WICKED, and form their actions, they truly are.

 

Let's look at the most crucial and critical terms that have "changed." These words have been perverted, transformed and changed into something other than they really are and have been used to deceive the American people, and used against God and Jesus Christ and Christianity in this country.

 

First, "Relativity," and we won't include the scientific theories. Almost every student entering university says that they believe that truth is relative. There are no absolutes, there is no moral truth that is absolutely true, there's no truth of any kind that is absolutely true, and this has lead to many problems of every kind.

 

The second, is "tolerance" which means that you put up with or bear with peoples beliefs or practices or habits or lifestyles differing from or conflicting with one's own to which you disagree. The new tolerance means that not only are we to put up with or bear with other peoples views that we disagree with, but that we are to ACCEPT those views and lifestyles and beliefs to be just as valid as our own. This is being pounded into the minds of millions of students everyday, and if you don't, there are serious consequences waiting for you.

 

The last is "discrimination." Is discrimination bad, or good? If you ask people, half will say bad, the other have will say good. Let's look at the word, since the word is "changing." The fact of the matter is that both are right. Discrimination simply means "to distinguish between several things, usually similar. Now racial discrimination is viewed as wrong, as is gender and age discrimination, but the word has been taken and smeared into areas where it never was intended. Now they want to take it to mean everything, good and evil. The difference between Barbarism and Civilization is discrimination. It is between the bad and the good, not the black and the white, the old and the young, the male and the female, it is the GOOD and the EVIL and the difference to discern between the two is what makes civilization. When that ability is lost or pounded into the mud as it is being done to students daily in the schools, our society will degrade back into the jungle.

 

This is why Christians need to get off of the bleachers and start getting involved, because there may be laws passed which may have serious consequences for you or your home and your family coming down the pike. Politicians are being pressured by the godless right now. Professor Leslie Amour a philosopher professor at the University of Ottawa has said that "Our idea of a virtuous citizen is someone who tolerates everything except intolerance." Apparently he doesn't know that it has been historically held for the past 4,000 years that a virtuous citizen is a person who believes in God, believes in morality, who disbelieves in immorality and ungodliness, and who lives a life of virtue and morality and does his best to maintain these things in the society in which he lives. Not any longer. Not this virtuous citizen may be a criminal, he may be an alcoholic or a drug addict, he may be a thief, he may be a pervert or a child molester, he may be any of these things, but as long as he is tolerant and objects to intolerance, he is alright. It has been said that the last virtue of a degenerating population is tolerance. When people no longer live up to any of the moral values that made society great, the last value they hold on to is tolerance, and demand that everybody tolerate their wickedness, and they will tolerate yours.

 

Things are going to change, but you need to involve yourself before it is too late. I encourage you to become active if you are not. Signing some online petition does little, but engaging the nuts in civil discourse works wonders. It really upsets them when you back your arguments with the legal standard which is by footnoting facts. They use the academic standard which usually means "Professor so and so said this about such and such." Give them facts, and watch the vein in their head start to get big.

 

 

Portions of this post have been contributed my Truth That Transforms (truthinaction.org) Ministries and were used from a sermon by the late Dr. D. James Kennedy.

6th Circuit Court says 'Tolerance is a two-way street'

SOURCE: OneNewsNow.com
Court: 'Tolerance is a two-way street'
Jody Brown, Charlie Butts, and Bob Kellogg - OneNewsNow - 1/27/2012 11:30:00 AM
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=1524394

The Sixth Circuit has ruled in favor of Christian graduate student Julea Ward, who almost three years ago was expelled from a university counseling program for her religious beliefs.

In a strongly worded opinion earlier today, the Sixth U.S. Circuit of Appeals reversed a district court decision in favor of Eastern Michigan University, sending it back for trial along with this message: "A reasonable jury could conclude that Ward's professors ejected her from the counseling program because of hostility toward her speech and faith ...."

As part of her counseling practicum course in early 2009, Ward had been assigned a potential client who was homosexual and was seeking affirmation of that sexual orientation. Because she was unwilling to violate her own religious beliefs in the context of the counseling relationship, Ward was permitted to refer the client to another counselor -- but was told to remain in the counseling program she would have to undergo a "remediation" program that would help her "see the error of her ways."

When Ward refused, a faculty committee dismissed her from the program. In her subsequent lawsuit, a district federal court ruled in favor of EMU -- a ruling that has now been reversed.

"A university cannot compel a student to alter or violate her belief systems based on a phantom policy as the price for obtaining a degree ...," wrote the Sixth Circuit. "Why treat Ward differently? That her conflict arose from religious convictions is not a good answer; that her conflict arose from religious convictions for which the department at times showed little tolerance is a worse answer."

The court continued: "Ward was willing to work with all clients and to respect the school's affirmation directives in doing so. That is why she asked to refer gay and lesbian clients (and some heterosexual clients) if the conversation required her to affirm their sexual practices. What more could the rule require? Surely, for example, the ban on discrimination against clients based on their religion (1) does not require a Muslim counselor to tell a Jewish client that his religious beliefs are correct if the conversation takes a turn in that direction and (2) does not require an atheist counselor to tell a person of faith that there is a God if the client is wrestling with faith-based issues. Tolerance is a two-way street. Otherwise, the rule mandates orthodoxy, not anti-discrimination."

Ward was represented by Alliance Defense Fund. ADF attorney Jeremy Tedesco tells OneNewsNow that the school was obviously hostile to Ward's faith:


"The university's reaction was [to] put her up on disciplinary charges for doing it, and through the course of her disciplinary proceedings to attack and denigrate her religious beliefs," Tedesco explains. "They took her on a self-styled 'theological bout' where they attacked her understanding of scripture. They asked her whether her 'brand' of Christianity was superior to that of other Christians and various things -- [all of which] shows that what was really going on was they did not like her religious beliefs."

The school, says Tedesco, was way out of line. He contends EMU would argue that Ward tried to change her client's views regarding homosexual behavior.


"That's not true," the attorney says. "She asked to refer the client because of a values conflict -- and the court very clearly said ... that's not trying to impose your values on somebody, that's just trying to avoid a violation of your own conscience.


"And the court went on to further recognize that it was really the university here that had a problem with Julea Ward's beliefs and who were trying to impose their own views on Julea."

The case now goes back to the lower court.

What do you believe?

Working on a blog demands that you do a lot of reading, and in doing so you come across things that make you wonder if people have all of their marbles. The belief in God for example. Some people beliieve that we came from nothing. Like the watchmaker theory.

Those who beleive in God, think of Him as a watchmaker who put everything together in order for everything to work. Those who do not believe in God think that the watch pieces were always there, and somehow by some mystical power assembled themselves to become the watch.

What do you believe? Here are some images I found regarding the two thoughts.

I accept the Christianity one because it requires less imagination when taken for it's fact as opposed to the godless "interpretation" of those facts.

Presidential Quote...

We recognize no sovereign but God,
and no king but Jesus.

John Adams - Founding Father and Second President of the United States of America

"Sisters" or "Mothers" You decide.

If you seek respect, you need to give it too!

This is a "Hot Potato" subject and I don't mean the 'hot potato' video released by CCTV (China Central TeleVision)  making it's rounds on YouTube showing the six Chinese soldiers of the PLA (Peoples' Liberation Army) tossing a live hand grenade around.

 

Today I will be commenting on the LGBT community in general and "The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" in particular. While not meaning any disrespect for anyone I talk about, I do need to point out that people who are seeking the respect of others, cannot turn around and disrespect them and/or their religion(s).

For those who don't know, LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. While I may personally not agree with their lifestyle (I take the side of God on this one girls, and He is the one that has a problem with it and not me, nor Christians nor the Church). Personally, I don't really care what other people do, until someone waves their weenie in my face, then it becomes a problem. As often happens, while looking into something to write about, the research path takes you on a different angle. This is how this post came about, and as with all of my posts simply expresses my opinion. Not my ISP, nor my DSL provider, not the Blog provider(s), nor my church, job, schools, civic and other associations, etc. Me!

 

For more on LGBT, see the WikiPedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT

 

Some members of the LGBT community live quiet lives, and no one knows the better, but there are those who for whatever reason want, or feel the need to tell everyone that they are gay. I don't know why they do this but they do. I don't tell anyone what my sexual orientation is, for frankly it's nobody's business and I don't know anyone in the "hetro" community that walks around introducing themselves by "Hi, I'm Tony and I'm straight" but I have had at least two people that I had just met who proudly announced to me unsolicited, "Hi I'm Tony and I'm gay. Why do I need to know that? Would you like to know that I used to have model trains as a hobby? Probably not. And wasn't this the reason for Don't Ask Don't Tell? Probably so.

 

RESPECT.  

 

The LGBT community is always asking for acceptance, and respect. Okay, then why won't they accept that others have different views of their lifestyle without calling them "bigots" and by disrespecting others and their religion. Take the group "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" for example.

 

They have a web site http://thesisters.org/ and claim that "The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® is a leading-edge Order of queer nuns. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and we use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit."

 

WikiPedia says... "The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), also called Order of Perpetual Indulgence (OPI) in Australia and elsewhere, is a charity, protest, and street performance organization that uses drag and Catholic imagery to call attention to sexual intolerance and satirize issues of gender and morality.

 

"Queer" nuns? "Sexual intollerance?" Really! These are homosexual men for the most part that dress in Nun-like garb with flamboyant makeup "respect(ing) diversity." Well, if pictures are worth a thousand words, here is a couple of million for you. (NOTE: There are a few photos with nudity, so viewer discretion is advised)

 

http://search.aol.com/aol/imageDetails?s_it=imageDetails&q=perpetual+indulgence&v_t=keyword_rollover&b=image%3Fquery%3Dperpetual%2Bindulgence%26s_it%3Dkeyword_rollover%26oreq%3Dd24dfe3977314fca8976d5b224e9206b&img=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.static.flickr.com%2F3081%2F3228846706_ae7646d418.jpg&host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickriver.com%2Fgroups%2Fsisterpix%2Fpool%2Finteresting%2F&width=119&height=78&thumbUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fimages-partners-tbn.google.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRQUFFlaU3LnSxxRWugj7_iGGuHYaHGwUVUY5O1mVuH37SaFIQK4UgcGA

 

I see no diversity here, but a complete and utter disrespect for the Catholic Church, and the entire Church community by these people pretending to be nuns. This can best be described as the perversion that many see in the gay community, but if you call a spade a spade, they come after you. This is not funny, and should not be tolerated by the church. It is nothing short of making a mockery of the church and Jesus Christ. If church people did this, we would be called intolerant bigots and worse. Catholic Bashing!

 

I found a blog and was going to use it as a back up source to this but all of a sudden (and overnight) the link has become "password protected." It appeared here www.rightgrrl.com/carolyn/sisters.html . This blog addressed the bashing by the "sisters" who appear to be more like "mothers" if you get my drift.

There was a video that surfaced out of San Francisco and you can see it here along with related story. http://www.towleroad.com/2007/10/san-franciscos-.html

 

And an archived account from a 2007 incident which got my goat here. This has a number of useful links.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/1971/jan/7101004

 

While this story is dated, it needs to be kept alive, for these are the tolerant and understanding types who are asking us to accept deviency under the banner of diversity.

President Obama's State of the Union Address

I needed a couple of days off since I posted on the weekend, but will be back this afternoon (Jan 25) with a doosey.

Just as an aside and to whet your appetite to come back I want to quickly talk about last nights' Presidential address.

US President Barak Obama gave his third State of the Union speech and sounded much like a Conservative. He touted great policies (which just happened to have appeared in his other speeches in the past) but too bad his governance has been totally opposite of what he said.

His signature piece of legislation, commonly known as ObamaCare was not even mentioned.

I was however kept very entertained by Vice President Joe "Bite Me" Biden. He was very fidgety in his chair, like he had a bad case of hemorrhoids or something, kept playing with his face, and on occasion would try to catch mosquitos flying by with his thumb and forefinger.


I'm sorry people, but my country is much too important to re-elect this crowd. America doesn't need to be "fundamentally transformed, Mr. President. It needs to get back to work.

Entitled to Opinions, but Not to Facts

Adolf Hitler - Was he a Christian in any reasonable sense of the word? Or was he really more like the modern day left leaning religious advocacy groups hiding behind God but infesting the Internet like wolves in sheep's clothing? And is the producer of this image truthful, or a plain ole' schmuck?

Let's see what I say, and what the historical account says.

Photo Source:

http://modernhypocrisy.wordpress.com/

Source of Article below my commentary is entirely from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_religious_views

CONSIDER IT 'DEALT WITH!'
AND 'DEBUNKED' TO BOOT.

I found the above image while doing a Google Image search for something else. The picture intrigued me, and since I am a person with great historical knowledge, and as the photo clearly mis-states historical fact and then challenges us to "deal with it," what the heck! Let's see what the reality of the charge really is.

In the interest of full disclosure, I will be providing a brief historical analysis, make a few points, and then post the contents (in it's entirety) of the Wikipedia article on Hitler's religious beliefs, with the British English words changed to their American English spellings, and some considerable correction of mis-spellings of other words, removal of footnote links, and other hyperlinks as well. Remember that I always give credit to where credit is due, and I provide the Wiki narrative for the sake of convenience since the research has already been done, and so you can stay right here, (not to mention in case the link or story changes). If you want to see the footnotes or hyperlinks to source material, click on the Wikipedia link under the picture at top.




What are the Real Historical Facts? . . .  Let's look.

I have often been amazed at what little effort it takes to confuse people with agendas. I guess if something sounds good, and you think like the fool that says something erroneous, I can see where one makes errors. Well, I think, therefore I correct!

History includes many anomalies, and this Adolf Hitler fact is one of them. Hitler and the Nazis in general were Pagans, hiding behind a façade of Christianity, so for someone to declare otherwise, as this blogger has, that Adolf Hitler was a Christian, is a disservice to all who read his commentary. Facts are important, and even historical resources such as the History Channel sometimes show documentaries that are just plain incorrect.

One example is this one, which will illustrate what I mean by my comment,

Top Photo: 1936 Berlin Games - French Team gives Hitler Olympic Salute
Bottom Photo: Jesse Owens (center) German Athlete on our right giving Nazi salute.

1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin

In 1936, the Olympic Games were hosted in Berlin, Germany. As is customary, the various athletes gather and have a parade of nations to open the games and honor the host nation’s leader, who can only make a specific declaration opening the games. As each nation passes the reviewing stand, they customarily dip their national flags to honor the host leader – except for the flag of the United States. In a historical fluke, during the 1912 Olympic Games hosted in London, England, an American flag could not be found, and the athletes marched behind a flag that was brought by one of the athletes. During those games, as they passed the reviewing stand, the American flag was not dipped, as the other flags customarily and ceremoniously are. When asked by the press why this was, the reply was simple and straight forward. “The flag of the United States shall not dip for any earthly king” and the tradition continues to this day.

Back to Berlin. While parading in front of Adolf Hitler’s reviewing stand, one documentary I was watching literally said that “the French team gave Hitler the Nazi salute” and the crowed cheers as Hitler returns the salute. The narrator goes on “Was there really a need for this?” Naturally you think “NO!” BUT the narrator was incorrect, and whoever produced the documentary did not do through research. A perfect example of this can be found here which is where the photo came from.

http://www.mindserpent.com/American_History/books/White_History/hwr64.htm

Well, DUH, what really happened was that the French Olympic Team gave Adolf Hitler the Olympic salute, and not the Nazi salute. The difference, the Nazi salute has the right arm extended at a 45 degree angle while the Olympic salute is the arm extended 90 degrees from the body (horizontally). Now you see where a simple error repeated enough loses its’ content and gets misinterpreted.

THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE...

 

Adolf Hitler's religious views     From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Adolf Hitler's religious views are a matter of dispute. Raised by a skeptic Catholic father and a Catholic mother, Adolf Hitler ceased to participate in the Sacraments after childhood. In his book Mein Kampf and in public speeches he often made statements which affirmed a belief in Christianity. Prior to World War II Hitler had promoted a "positive Christianity" purged of Judaism and instilled with Nazi philosophy. According to the controversial collection of transcripts edited by Martin Bormann, titled Hitler's Table Talk, as well as the testimony of some intimates, Hitler had privately negative views of Christianity. Others reported he was a committed believer.

Views as a youth

Hitler's father Alois, though nominally a Catholic, was somewhat religiously skeptical, while his mother Klara was a practicing Catholic. At the Benedictine monastery school which Hitler attended for one school year as a child (1897–1898), Hitler became top of his class, receiving twelve 1's, the highest grade in the final quarter. He was confirmed on 22 May 1904, and also sang in the choir at the monastery. According to historian Michael Rissmann, young Hitler was influenced in school by Pan-Germanism, and began to reject the Catholic Church, receiving Confirmation only unwillingly. Rissmann also relates a story where a boyhood friend^[who?] claimed that after Hitler had left home, he never again attended Mass or received the sacraments.

According to an interview with a British correspondent years after the Great War, Hitler claimed a mysterious voice told him to leave a section of a crowded trench during a minor barrage. Moments after he left the area, a shell fell on that particular spot. Hitler saw this experience as a message that he was a uniquely illuminated individual who had a special task to fulfill. This story did not, however, appear in Mein Kampf.

Views as an adult

Something of Hitler's religious beliefs can be gathered from his public and private statements, however they present a conflicting picture of a man who is somewhat spiritual and yet against organized religion. Some private statements attributed to him remain disputed. According to Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, in the early 1920s Bernhard Stempfle, a Catholic priest and journalist, and responsible for the anti-Semitic daily Miesbacher Anzeiger, was a prominent member of Hitler's inner circle and frequently advised him on religious issues.

Public statements

In public statements, especially at the beginning of his rule, Hitler frequently spoke positively about the Christian German culture, and his belief in an Aryan Christ. Before his ascension to power, Hitler stated before a crowd in Munich: "My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice."

 In a proclamation to the German Nation February 1, 1933 Hitler stated, "The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."

 Historian Joachim Fest wrote, "Hitler knew, through the constant invocation of the God the Lord (German: Herrgott) or of providence (German: Vorsehung), to make the impression of a godly way of thought." He used his "ability to simulate, even to potentially critical Church leaders, an image of a leader keen to uphold and protect Christianity," according to biographer Ian Kershaw. Kershaw adds that Hitler's ability also succeeded in appeasing possible Church resistance to anti-Christian Nazi Party radicals. For example, on March 23, 1933, he addressed the Reichstag: "The National Government regards the two Christian confessions [i.e. Catholicism and Protestantism] as factors essential to the soul of the German people. ... We hold the spiritual forces of Christianity to be indispensable elements in the moral uplift of most of the German people."

 According to Hitler's chief architect Albert Speer, Hitler remained a formal member of the Catholic Church until his death, and even ordered his chief associates to remain members, however it was Speer's opinion that "he had no real attachment to it." According to biographer John Toland, Hitler was still "a member in good standing of the Church of Rome despite his detestation of its hierarchy, he carried within himself its teaching that the Jew was the killer of God. The extermination, therefore, could be done without a twinge of conscience since he was merely acting as the avenging hand of God — so long as it was done impersonally, without cruelty." Hitler's own words from Mein Kampf seem to conflict with the idea that his anti-Semitism was religiously motivated, stating: "In the Jew I still saw only a man who was of a different religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I was against the idea that he should be attacked because he had a different faith."

 In his book Mein Kampf Hitler made numerous religious pronouncements. In its pages, historian Richard Steigmann-Gall notes, "Hitler gave no indication of being an atheist or agnostic or of believing in only a remote, rationalist divinity. Indeed, he referred continually to a providential, active deity."

 "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

 In an attempt to justify Nazi aggression, Hitler drew a parallel between militantism and Christianity's rise to power as the Roman Empire's official state religion:

"The individual may establish with pain today that with the appearance of Christianity the first spiritual terror entered into the far freer ancient world, but he will not be able to contest the fact that since then the world has been afflicted and dominated by this coercion, and that coercion is broken only by coercion, and terror only by terror. Only then can a new state of affairs be constructively created. Political parties are inclined to compromises; philosophies never. Political parties even reckon with opponents; philosophies proclaim their infallibility."

Elsewhere in Mein Kampf Hitler speaks of the "creator of the universe" and "eternal Providence." He also states his belief that the Aryan race was created by God, and that it would be a sin to dilute it through racial intermixing:

"The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will."

According to Steigmann-Gall, Hitler's references to Jesus, God as the "Lord of Creation" and the necessity of obeying "His will" reveals that Christianity was fused into his thinking. "What Christianity achieves is not dogma; it does not seek the outward ecclesiastical form, but rather ethical principles.... There is no religion and no philosophy that equals it in its moral content; no philosophical ethics is better able to diffuse the tension between this life and the hereafter, from which Christianity and its ethic were born," Hitler stated.

Derek Hastings sees Hitler's commitment to Christianity as more tenuous. He considers it "eminently plausible" that Hitler was a believing Catholic as late as his trial in 1924, but writes that "there is little doubt that Hitler was a staunch opponent of Christianity throughout the duration of the Third Reich."

Private statements

Hitler's private statements about Christianity were often conflicting. Hitler's intimates, such as Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer, and Martin Bormann suggest that Hitler generally had negative opinions of Christianity, while Gen. Gerhard Engel and Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber report he was a believer.

It was Goebbels opinion that Hitler was "deeply religious but entirely anti-Christian." In his diary Goebbels reported that Hitler believed Jesus "also wanted to act against the Jewish world domination. Jewry had him crucified. But Paul falsified his doctrine and undermined ancient Rome." Albert Speer quotes Hitler stating, "You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"

Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber wrote in a confidential report that Hitler "undoubtedly lives in belief in God" and that he "recognizes Christianity as the builder of western culture." Historian Ian Kershaw believes that Hitler had deceived Faulhaber, noting his "evident ability to simulate, even to potentially critical church leaders, an image of a leader keen to uphold and protect Christianity". Nazi General Gerhard Engel reported in his diary that in 1941 Hitler stated, "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."

The historical validity of other remarks has been challenged, particularly the English translation of Hitler's Table Talk.

 Historian Richard Carrier states, "It is clear that Picker and Jochmann have the correct [German] text and Trevor-Roper's [English translation] is entirely untrustworthy." One disputed example includes Hitler's statement that, "Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity." Which Carrier translates from the original German as:

"I have never found pleasure in maltreating others, even if I know it isn't possible to maintain oneself in the world without force. Life is granted only to those who fight the hardest. It is the law of life: Defend yourself! The time in which we live has the appearance of the collapse of this idea. It can still take 100 or 200 years. I am sorry that, like Moses, I can only see the Promised Land from a distance.

In the Table Talk, Hitler praised Julian the Apostate's Three Books Against the Galilaeans, an anti-Christian tract from AD 362. In the entry dated 21 October 1941 Hitler stated, "When one thinks of the opinions held concerning Christianity by our best minds a hundred, two hundred years ago, one is ashamed to realize how little we have since evolved. I didn't know that Julian the Apostate had passed judgment with such clear-sightedness on Christianity and Christians.... the Galilean, who later was called the Christ, intended something quite different. He must be regarded as a popular leader who took up His position against Jewry... and it's certain that Jesus was not a Jew. The Jews, by the way, regarded Him as the son of a whore—of a whore and a Roman soldier. The decisive falsification of Jesus’ doctrine was the work of St. Paul.... Paul of Tarsus (his name was Saul, before the road to Damascus) was one of those who persecuted Jesus most savagely."

Author Konrad Heiden has quoted Hitler as stating, "We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany." According to historian Laurence Rees, "Hitler did not believe in the afterlife, but he did believe he would have a life after death because of what he had achieved." Historian Richard Overy maintains that Hitler was not a "practicing Christian," nor was he a "thorough atheist."^[  Hitler simplified Arthur de Gobineau's elaborate ideas of struggle for survival between the different races, among which the Aryan race, guided by providence, was supposed to be the torchbearers of civilization. In Hitler's conception, Jews were enemies of all civilization, especially the Volk. Although Hitler has been called a "Social Darwinist, he was not such in the usual sense of the word. Whereas Social Darwinism stressed struggle, change, the survival of the strongest, and a ceaseless battle of competition, Hitler, through the use of modern industrial technology and impersonal bureaucratic methods ended all competition by the ruthless suppression of all opponents." His understanding of Darwinism was incomplete and based loosely on the theory of "survival of the fittest" in a social context, as popularly misunderstood at the time.

Positive Christianity

For a time Hitler advocated positive Christianity, a militant, non-denominational form of Christianity which emphasized Christ as an active preacher, organizer, and fighter who opposed the institutionalized Judaism of his day. Positive Christianity purged or deemphasized the Jewish aspects of Christianity and was infused with aspects of nationalism and racial anti-Semitism. Hitler never directed his attacks on Jesus himself, whom Hitler regarded as an Aryan opponent of the Jews. Hitler viewed traditional Christianity as a corruption of the original ideas of Jesus by the Apostle Paul. In Mein Kampf Hitler writes that Jesus "made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross.” In a speech 26 June 1934, Hitler stated:

The National Socialist State professes its allegiance to positive Christianity. It will be its honest endeavor to protect both the great Christian Confessions in their rights, to secure them from interference with their doctrines (Lehren), and in their duties to constitute a harmony with the views and the exigencies of the State of to-day.

Former Prime Minister of Bavaria, Count Graf von Lerchenfeld-Köfering stated in a speech before the Landtag of Bavaria, that his beliefs "as a man and a Christian" prevented him from being an anti-Semite or from pursuing anti-Semitic public policies. Hitler while speaking the Bürgerbräukeller turned Lerchenfeld's perspective of Jesus on its head:

I would like here to appeal to a greater than I, Count Lerchenfeld. He said in the last session of the Landtag that his feeling 'as a man and a Christian' prevented him from being an anti-Semite. I say: My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. .. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison.

Historian Steigmann-Gall argues that Hitler demonstrated a preference for Protestantism over Catholicism, as Protestantism was more liable to reinterpretation and a non-traditional readings, more receptive to positive Christianity, and because some of its liberal branches had held similar views. These views were supported by the German Christians movement, but rejected by the Confessing Church. According to Steigmann-Gall, Hitler regretted that "the churches had failed to back him and his movement as he had hoped." Hitler stated to Albert Speer, "Through me the Protestant Church could become the established church, as in England."

Not all the Protestant churches submitted to the state, which Hitler said in Mein Kampf was important in forming a political movement. Hitler supported the appointment of Ludwig Müller as Reichsbischof over the Protestant churches, hoping that he would get them to adhere to Nazi positions. After 1935 Hitler was advised by the newly-appointed Reich Minister for Church Affairs Hans Kerrl. Many Protestants who were not persuaded by argument were arrested and their property and funds confiscated.

By 1940 it was public knowledge that Hitler had abandoned advocating for Germans even the sincerest idea of a positive Christianity.

Persecution of Christian Churches

In 1999 Julie Seltzer Mandel, while researching documents for the "Nuremberg Project", discovered 150 bound volumes collected by Gen. William Donovan as part of his work on documenting Nazi war crimes. Donovan was a senior member of the U.S. prosecution team and had compiled large amounts of evidence that Nazis persecuted Christian Churches. In a 108-page outline titled "The Nazi Master Plan" Office of Strategic Services investigators argued that the Nazi regime had a plan to reduce the influence of Christian churches through a campaign of systematic persecutions. "Important leaders of the National Socialist party would have liked to meet this situation [of church influence] by complete extirpation of Christianity and the substitution of a purely racial religion," said the report. The most persuasive evidence came from "the systematic nature of the persecution itself." However "direct evidence" of this plan might possibly be obtained through an examination of the "directives of the Reich Propaganda Ministry" or by the "questioning of Nazi newspapermen and local and regional propagandists". The O.S.S. outline suggested that the plan to neutralize the Churches was conceived by Hitler and an inner circle even before the Nazis came to power, however editor and historian Richard Bonney stated this conjecture was an "interesting, but undocumented, assertion." The report argued that "considerations of expediency made it impossible, however, for the National Socialist movement to adopt this radical anti-Christian policy officially." Historian Alan Bullock is in agreement with this view, and argues that once the war was over it was Hitler's intention to "root out and destroy the influence of the Christian Churches." According to its own self-assessment however, the O.S.S. "document is still seriously lacking in evidence of probative value, and is consequently ill suited to serve as the basis for an international discussion."

Under the supervision of Alfred Rosenberg and Heinrich Himmler moves were made to reduce Christianity's presence in German traditions, such as replacing Christian elements in Christmas carols with pagan references.

Statements against atheism

Hitler often associated atheism with bolshevism, communism, and Jewish materialism. Hitler stated in a speech to the people of Stuttgart on February 15, 1933: "Today they say that Christianity is in danger, that the Catholic faith is threatened. My reply to them is: for the time being, Christians and not international atheists are now standing at Germany’s fore. I am not merely talking about Christianity; I confess that I will never ally myself with the parties which aim to destroy Christianity. Fourteen years they have gone arm in arm with atheism. At no time was greater damage ever done to Christianity than in those years when the Christian parties ruled side by side with those who denied the very existence of God. Germany's entire cultural life was shattered and contaminated in this period. It shall be our task to burn out these manifestations of degeneracy in literature, theater, schools, and the press—that is, in our entire culture—and to eliminate the poison which has been permeating every facet of our lives for these past fourteen years."

In a radio address October 14, 1933 Hitler stated, "For eight months we have been waging a heroic battle against the Communist threat to our Volk, the decomposition of our culture, the subversion of our art, and the poisoning of our public morality. We have put an end to denial of God and abuse of religion. We owe Providence humble gratitude for not allowing us to lose our battle against the misery of unemployment and for the salvation of the German peasant."

In a speech delivered in Berlin, October 24, 1933, Hitler stated: "We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."

In a speech delivered at Koblenz, August 26, 1934 Hitler states: "There may have been a time when even parties founded on the ecclesiastical basis were a necessity. At that time Liberalism was opposed to the Church, while Marxism was anti-religious. But that time is past. National Socialism neither opposes the Church nor is it anti-religious, but on the contrary, it stands on the ground of a real Christianity. The Church's interests cannot fail to coincide with ours alike in our fight against the symptoms of degeneracy in the world of to-day, in our fight against the Bolshevist culture, against an atheistic movement, against criminality, and in our struggle for the consciousness of a community in our national life, for the conquest of hatred and disunion between the classes, for the conquest of civil war and unrest, of strife and discord. These are not anti-Christian, these are Christian principles."

During negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of April 26, 1933 Hitler argued that "Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith."

Islam and eastern religions

Among eastern religions, Hitler described religious leaders such as "Confucius, Buddha, and Mohammed" as providers of "spiritual sustenance". In this context, Hitler's connection to Mohammad Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem — which included asylum in 1941, the honorary rank of an SS Major-General, and a "respected racial genealogy" — has been interpreted more as a sign of respect than political expedience. Hitler expressed admiration for the Muslim military tradition and directed Himmler to initiate Muslim SS Divisions as a matter of policy. However, Nazi-era Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer acknowledged that Hitler was only cooperating with Muslim figures, such as al-Husseini, because he felt the anti-Semitic views they shared would eventually help him win power and influence over the Middle East in the long run. According to Speer, Hitler stated in private, "The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" Speer also stated that when he was discussing with Hitler events which might have occurred had Islam absorbed Europe:

"Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate and conditions of the country. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire."


Hitler's choice of the Hindu Swastika as the Nazis' main and official symbol was linked to the belief in the Aryan cultural descent of the German people. They considered the early Aryans of India to be the prototypical white invaders and the sign as a symbol of the Aryan master race. The theory was inspired by the German archaeologist Gustaf Kossinna, who argued that the ancient Aryans were a superior Nordic race from northern Germany who expanded into the steppes of Eurasia, and from there into India, where they established the Vedic religion, the ancestor of Hindu and Buddhist faiths. While other Nazis such as Alfred Rosenberg and Heinrich Himmler were directly influenced by Vedic culture, Hitler was less interested in it.

Role of religion in the Nazi state

In Hitler's political relations dealing with religion he readily adopted a strategy "that suited his immediate political purposes." According to Marshall Dill, one of the greatest challenges the Nazi state faced in its effort to "eradicate Christianity in Germany or at least subjugate it to their general world outlook" was that the Nazis could not justifiably connect German faith communities to the corruption of the old regime, Weimar having no close connection to the churches. Because of the long history of Christianity in Germany, Hitler could not attack Christianity as openly as he did Judaism, communism or other political opponents. The list of Nazi affronts to and attacks on the Catholic Church is long. The attacks tended not to be overt, but were still dangerous; believers were made to feel that they were not good Germans and their leaders were painted as treasonous and contemptible. The state removed crucifixes from the walls of Catholic classrooms and replaced it with a photo of the Führer.

Hitler issued a statement saying that he wished to avoid factional disputes in Germany's churches. He feared the political power that the churches had, and did not want to openly antagonize that political base until he had securely gained control of the country. Once in power Hitler showed his contempt for non-Aryan religion and sought to eliminate it from areas under his rule. Within Hitler's Nazi Party some atheists were quite vocal, especially Martin Bormann. During negotiations relating to the Concordat with the Catholic Church and the Nazis state in 1933, Hitler expressed his view on the relationship between race and religion to Bishop Wilhelm Berning:

I have been attacked because of my handling of the Jewish question. The Catholic Church considered the Jews pestilent for fifteen hundred years, put them in ghettos, etc, because it recognized the Jews for what they were. In the epoch of liberalism the danger was no longer recognized. I am moving back toward the time in which a fifteen-hundred-year-long tradition was implemented. I do not set race over religion, but I recognize the representatives of this race as pestilent for the state and for the church and perhaps I am thereby doing Christianity a great service by pushing them out of schools and public functions.

Hitler often used religious speech and symbolism to promote Nazism to those that he feared would be disposed to act against him. He also called upon religion as a pretext in diplomacies. The Soviet Union feared that if they commenced a program of persecution against religion in the western regions, Hitler would use that as a pretext for war.

In 1985 the Austrian author Wilfried Daim published a photograph of an alleged document signed by Hitler in 1943, which proposed the:

"Immediate and unconditional abolition of all religions after the final victory ('Endsieg') not only for the territory of Greater Germany but also for all released, occupied and annexed countries ..., proclaiming at the same time Hitler as the new messiah. Out of political considerations the Muslim, Buddhist and Shintoist religion will be spared for the present. The 'Führer' has to be presented as an intermediate between a redeemer and a liberator, yet surely as one sent by God, who has to get godly honor. The existing churches, chapels, temples and cult places of the different religions have to be changed into 'Adolf-Hitler-consecration places'. The theological faculties of the universities have to be transformed into the new faith. Special emphasis has to be laid on the education of missionaries and wandering preachers, who have to proclaim the teaching in Greater Germany and in the rest of the world and have to form religious bodies, which can be used as centers for further extension. (With this the problems with the abolition of monogamy will disappear, because polygamy can be included into the new teaching as one of the statements of faith.)"

In his childhood, Hitler had admired the pomp of Catholic ritual and the hierarchical organization of the clergy. Later he drew on these elements, organizing his party along hierarchical lines and including liturgical forms into events or using phraseology taken from hymns. Because of these liturgical elements, Hitler's Messiah-like status and the ideology's all-encompassing nature, the Nazi movement, like communism is sometimes termed a "political religion".

God, racism and anti-Semitism

To the extent he believed in a divinity, Hitler did not believe in a "remote, rationalist divinity" but in an "active deity," which he frequently referred to as "Creator" or "Providence". In Hitler's belief God created a world in which different races fought each other for survival as depicted by Arthur de Gobineau. The "Aryan race," supposedly the bearer of civilization, is allocated a special place:

"What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and the reproduction of our race ... so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the universe. ... Peoples that bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence."

In November 1936 the Roman Catholic prelate Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber met Hitler at Berghof for a three hour meeting. He left the meeting convinced that "Hitler was deeply religious" and that "The Reich Chancellor undoubtedly lives in belief in God. He recognizes Christianity as the builder of Western culture".

Hitler viewed the Jews as enemies of all civilization and as materialistic, unspiritual beings, writing in Mein Kampf: "His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine." Hitler described his supposedly divine mandate for his anti-Semitism: "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

In his rhetoric Hitler also fed on the old accusation of Jewish Deicide. Because of this it has been speculated that Christian anti-Semitism influenced Hitler's ideas, especially such works as Martin Luther's essay On the Jews and Their Lies and the writings of Paul de Lagarde. Others disagree with this view. In support of this view, Hitler biographer John Toland opines that Hitler "carried within him its teaching that the Jew was the killer of God. The extermination, therefore, could be done without a twinge of conscience since he was merely acting as the avenging hand of God..." Nevertheless, in Mein Kampf Hitler writes of an upbringing in which no particular anti-Semitic prejudice prevailed.

According to historian Lucy Dawidowicz, anti-Semitism has a long history within Christianity, and that the line of "anti-Semitic descent" from Luther to Hitler is "easy to draw." In her The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945, she writes that Luther and Hitler were obsessed by the "demonologized universe" inhabited by Jews. Dawidowicz states that the similarities between Luther's anti-Jewish writings and modern anti-Semitism are no coincidence, because they derived from a common history of Judenhass, which can be traced to Haman's advice to Ahasuerus, although modern German anti-Semitism also has its roots in German nationalism. Catholic historian José Sánchez argues that Hitler's anti-Semitism was explicitly rooted in Christianity.

Mysticism and Occultism

Some scholars maintain that, in contrast to a few other Nazi leaders, Hitler did not adhere to esoteric ideas, occultism, or mysticism (see also Nazism and occultism) and even ridiculed such beliefs in private and possibly in public. Hitler stated: "We will not allow mystically-minded occult folk with a passion for exploring the secrets of the world beyond to steal into our Movement. Such folk are not National Socialists, but something else—in any case something which has nothing to do with us." Other scholars believe the young Hitler was strongly influenced, particularly in his racial views, by an abundance of occult works on the mystical superiority of the Germans, like the occult and anti-Semitic magazine Ostara, and give credence to the claim of its publisher Lanz von Liebenfels that Hitler visited him in 1909 and praised his work. Indeed, evidence indicates Hitler was a regular reader of Ostara.

Hitler's contact to Lanz von Liebenfels makes it necessary to examine how far his religious views were influenced by Ariosophy, an esoteric movement in Germany and Austria that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. (Whether Ariosophy is to be classified as Germanic paganism or Occultism is a different question.) The seminal work on Ariosophy, The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, devotes its last chapter the topic of Ariosophy and Adolf Hitler. Not at least due to the difficulty of sources, historians disagree about the importance of Ariosophy for Hitler's religious views. As noted in the foreword of The Occult Roots of Nazism by Rohan Butler, Goodrick-Clarke is more cautious in assessing the influence of Lanz von Liebenfels on Hitler than Joachim Fest in his biography of Hitler. A Hitler biography by John Toland that appeared in 1992 reprints a poem that Hitler allegedly wrote while serving in the German Army on the Western Front in 1915.  This poem includes references to magical runes and the pre-Christian Germanic deity Wotan (Odin), but it is mentioned neither by Goodrick-Clarke nor by Fest.

While he was in power, Hitler was definitely less interested in the occult or the esoteric than other Nazi leaders. Unlike Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess, for example, Hitler had no interest in astrology. Nevertheless, Hitler is the most important figure in the Modern Mythology of Nazi occultism. There are television documentaries about this topic, with the titles Hitler and the Occult and Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail.

Comparing him to Erich von Ludendorff, Fest writes: "Hitler had detached himself from such affections, in which he encountered the obscurantism of his early years, Lanz v. Liebenfels and the Thule Society, again, long ago and had, in Mein Kampf, formulated his scathing contempt for that völkish romanticism, which however his own cosmos of imagination preserved rudimentarily." Fest refers to the following passage from Mein Kampf:

"The characteristic thing about these people [modern-day followers of the early Germanic religion] is that they rave about the old Germanic heroism, about dim prehistory, stone axes, spear and shield, but in reality are the greatest cowards that can be imagined. For the same people who brandish scholarly imitations of old German tin swords, and wear a dressed bearskin with bull's horns over their heads, preach for the present nothing but struggle with spiritual weapons, and run away as fast as they can from every Communist blackjack.

However, this statement isn't really a denouncing of Germanic Paganism or Occultism, rather it is a denouncing of people who admire ancient Germanic warriors, but don't heroically fight like the ancients did. It is not clear if this statement is an attack at anyone specific. It could have been aimed at Karl Harrer or at the Strasser group. According to Goodrick-Clarke, "In any case, the outburst clearly implies Hitler's contempt for conspiratorial circles and occult-racist studies and his preference for direct activism." Hitler also said something similar in public speeches.

Older literature states that Hitler had no intention of instituting worship of the ancient Germanic gods in contrast to the beliefs of some other Nazi officials. In Hitler's Table Talk one can find this quote:

"It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.

Jackson Spielvogel and David Redles in an article published by the Simon Wiesenthal Center assert that the influence of the anti-Judaic, Gnostic and root race teachings of H.P. Blavatsky, the founder of The Theosophical Society with doctrines as expounded by her book "The Secret Doctrine", and the adaptations of her ideas by her followers, through Ariosophy, the Germanenorden and the Thule Society, constituted a popularly unacknowledged but decisive influence over the developing mind of Hitler. The scholars state that Hitler himself may be responsible for turning historians from investigating his occult influences. While he publicly condemned and even persecuted occultists, Freemasons, and astrologers, his nightly private talks disclosed his belief in the ideas of these competing occult groups - demonstrated by his discussion of reincarnation, Atlantis, world ice theory, and his belief that esoteric myths and legends of cataclysm and battles between gods and titans were a vague collective memory of monumental early events.

Marriage

In the Führerbunker on April 29, 1945, a day before their suicide, Hitler and Eva Braun married in front of a civil servant in a cramped map room without a religious service or blessing ceremony. This was due to the difficulty of finding an official who could conduct the marriage legally. The problem was solved by Goebbels, who knew of a registrar named Walter Wagner who was fighting with the depleted Volkssturm.

Which is acceptable to you?

These specific photos were selected because it identifies ONE specific person at three different demonstrations promoting the assassination of President Bush, and this is acceptable to the Secret Service, but say soemthing like "Obama is dumb," and they want to throw you in prison.

Piggy backing off of yesterdays' post regarding the Psalms 109:8 verse where the kook left claims that someone wants to kill Obama which is one heck of a stretch even for the kooks, I ask you clowns on the Lunatic fringe of Left to reply to the pictures I have posted, and to the commentaries posted on the blogs linked below which were just a page 1 sampling of a Google Search.

There is a vast difference between someone putting words into the mouth of someone else and thinking one is trying to kill a President, and those with photographic evidence clearly are calling for a Presidential assassination as can be seen on the photos.

If you want to see more pictures, do a GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH for KILL BUSH PROTEST or KILL BUSH PROTESTER and you'll find pages and pages of examples, but replace Bush with Obama and I have only found 2 examples. 1 a picture on a blog with Obama in the cross hairs of a rifle scope relating to a court case regarding free speech, and the second, a vandalized sign with those words painted over the sign, with KKK written on it. Apparently the person who vandalized that sign didn't know that the KKK has often been referred to as the terrorist wing of the Democrat National Committee.


Is it a double standard, or is the claim of mental disorder justified?

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Protest Sign Ugliness

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