V re Bush's paranoid, neo-facist, Christian world view

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In einer eMail vom 12.03.2003 04:22:24 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com:


> 
> "Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views
> of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues
> against the consensus that Nazism as a whole was
> either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed
> to it. In contrast, Steigmann-Gall demonstrates that
> many in the Nazi movement believed the contours of
> their ideology were based on a Christian understanding
> of Germany's ills and their cure. He also explores the
> struggle the 'positive Christians' waged with the
> party's paganists and demonstrates that this was not
> just a conflict over religion, but over the very
> meaning of Nazi ideology itself...."
> 

The only real Christian resistance group in the Third Reich was the 
"Bekennende Kirche". (Confessing Church). The catholics had trouble with the 
Nazis more for "symbolic reasons" (using Christian symbols instead of Nazi). 
And of course the protest against the "Euthanasie"in 1941. That's, more or 
less, all...
kwp
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