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Monday, July 25, 2005

Another Major Head of State Declares For Christian-Based Government

7:04 PM

Nothing needed from me in presenting the following:

"The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

Today Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our
culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent
immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press - in
short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into
our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during recent years."

Adolf Hitler. ( in his first radio address to the German people after
coming to power July 22, 1933; from "My New Order, The Speeches of Adolf
Hitler, 1922-1939", Vol. 1, pp. 871-872, Oxford University Press,
London, 1942.)

A special thanks to American poet Jayne Lyn Stahl for sending me the above.

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2 Comments:

So JoJo, what's your point with this post? The message was correct, although it was uttered by a devious psychopath. I'm certain we can find any number of statements by other infamous villians through history; Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc.which when linked to some liberal mindset would look ironic, but would be a weak attempt to link the two. Let's face it, Clinton (both), Gore, Ted Kennedy or Kerry (to name a few) are villians to one extent or another, but no one could even put them in the same class as Hitler so don't try to do it with conservatives.

By Anonymous, at 3:17 AM

The previous commentator misses the point entirely - or maybe he doesn't, which is scarier! The point is that there are many in our country today who are leaning further and further to the right, towards extremism, and when they hear about 'the far right' they don't get that what is being spoken about is the direction of Nazism, of Hitler!
To claim that Hitler's message was right is to suggest that instead of having a nation that protects diverse viewpoints we should try to enforce Christianity and its values. The good news is that, whatever may have been the case in Germany, the fundamental values enshrined in our nation's founding documents and especially the Bill of Rights are not Christian, although they do protect Christians. But they protect Christians by protecting free speech and religious freedom, and not by trying to enfore a monolithic religious, economic, political or moral viewpoint.

I've posted some further comments on my own blog at http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/blog/

By Anonymous, at 3:55 AM