Separation of church and state: straight from the mind of Hitler
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fischer/080119
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From the Alan Keyes site
Bryan Fischer
January 19, 2008
When Adolph Hitler took power in Germany, he recognized immediately
that the major threat to his tyrannical designs would come from the
church. If he could neutralize the voice of the church, he correctly
reasoned, there would be no one else to stand in his way.
Consequently, he immediately cranked up the Nazi propaganda machine to
develop slogans designed to silence the voice of the church, slogans
which were then relentlessly hammered into the minds of gullible
Germans and their pastors, who meekly complied.
Hitler crafted two slogans in particular, and these became the
bulldozers he used to push the church to the margins of the culture
and so squelch its freedom to speak truth to power that the liberty of
the entire world was soon threatened. Liberty was only preserved at
the cost of millions of lives, including hundreds of thousands of
America's finest young men.
These slogans, mind you, do not come from the United States
Constitution or from Thomas Jefferson or from the mind of the Founding
Fathers. These slogans come straight from the mind of Adolph Hitler,
and bear a sobering similarity to the mantras of the ACLU, Americans
United for the Separation of Church and State and the Freedom from
Religion Foundation.
Here they are, straight from the mind of Adolph Hitler:
"Politics do not belong in the Church."
"The Church must be separate from the State."
If they sound eerily familiar, it will only be because you
instinctively recognize in these words the voice of tyranny and
repression.
Hitler himself drove the pilings even deeper when he said, in December
of 1934, "The Nazi State will however not tolerate under any
circumstances any new or any continued political activity of the
denominations."
In the same speech, he added these ominous words: "But we will ensure
the purging from our public life of all those priests who have
mistaken their profession and who ought to have been politicians and
not pastors."
The objective of the Nazi regime was virtually identical to the agenda
of today's ACLU: Contain the voice of the church within the four walls
of its buildings, turning them into nothing more than echo chambers,
and punish any effort of church leaders to make their voices heard in
the public square.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation
of Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is
why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v.
Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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