MAGA Nazis don’t want you to know that German Nazis were Evangelical Christians too
American Fascism, Chapter 2
Ever heard of Martin Luther? No, not the black civil rights leader. The famous medieval German preacher.
He started the protestant movement and is revered among American Evangelicals, especially Lutherans, as the founder of their splinter groups of Christianity, which split off from the Catholic Church a couple of hundred years ago.
Now Evangelicals dominate America, while the vast majority of the world’s Christians are Catholics.
You didn’t know that either, did you?
Catholics are not “different” from Christians, as American Evangelicals like to pretend. Catholics are the original Christians. They’ve been around a lot longer than Evangelicals.
Evangelicals are just a splinter group that started with a German protestant preacher called Martin Luther in the 16th Century.
Most Christians on the planet think of American Evangelicals as a malignant, violent, corrupt, misguided cult, not true followers of Christ.
JOHN OLIVER EXPOSES SHADY TELEVANGELISTS FLEECING AMERICANS FOR MILLIONS
“On his award-worthy HBO program Last Week Tonight, John Oliver revels in exposing hypocrisy, from the compromised snake oil salesman Dr. Oz to “thin-skinned” megalomaniac Donald Trump. Sunday night’s edition saw the intrepid British satirist target America’s shady fraternity of televangelists bleeding their brainwashed acolytes dry.
“This is about the churches that exploit people’s faith for monetary gain,” Oliver announced.”
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Matthew 6:24
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 19:24
Hitler didn’t come up with the Holocaust. Martin Luther did.
Martin Luther was viciously anti-semitic and he promoted the idea of a Holocaust, hundreds of years before Hitler was even born.
ANTI-SEMITISM: MARTIN LUTHER – “THE JEWS & THEIR LIES”
“At the beginning of his career, Martin Luther was apparently sympathetic to Jewish resistance to the Catholic Church. However, he expected the Jews to convert to his purified Christianity; when they did not, he turned violently against them.”
MARTIN LUTHER PAVED THE WAY FOR THE HOLOCAUST
“A shocking part of Luther’s legacy seems to have slipped though the cracks of the collective memory along the way: his vicious Anti-Semitism and its horrific consequences for the Jews and for Germany itself.
At first, Luther was convinced that the Jews would accept the truth of Christianity and convert. Since they did not, he later followed in his treatise, On the Jews and Their Lies (1543), that “their synagogues or schools“ should be “set fire to … in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christian.“
He advised that the houses of Jews be “razed and destroyed,“ their “prayer books and Talmudic writings“ and “all cash and treasure of silver and gold“ be taken from them.
They should receive “no mercy or kindness,“ given “no legal protection,“ and “drafted into forced labor or expelled.“
He also claimed that Christians who “did not slay them were at fault.“Luther thus laid part of the basic anti-Semitic groundwork for his Nazi descendants to carry out the Shoah. Indeed, Julius Streicher, editor of the anti-Semitic Nazi magazine “Der Stürmer,“ commented during the Nürnberg tribunal that Martin Luther could have been tried in his place.”
ON THE JEWS AND THEIR LIES, MARTIN LUTHER, 1543
“The book may have had an impact on creating antisemitic Germanic thought through the middle ages. During World War II, copies of the book were held up by Nazis at rallies, and the prevailing scholarly consensus is that it had a significant impact on the Holocaust.”
Luther’s attacks have been seen as paving the way for Hitler.
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