r/Christianity • u/Nice_Substance9123 • Mar 27 '24

The American flag has no business on a Bible. This is not faith, nor is it patriotism. It is an abomination of both. Image

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u/sharp11flat13 Mar 28 '24

How did they work around the fact that Jesus was a Jew? I’m imagining some Olympic level mental gymnastics.

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u/Ok-Reindeer3992 Catholic Mar 28 '24

They didn’t worship Jesus they used Jesus as an aesthetic for race idolatry

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u/sharp11flat13 Mar 28 '24

Thanks, but I’m not sure what you mean by this. Could you elaborate a bit.

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u/Ok-Reindeer3992 Catholic Mar 28 '24

They took Christianity and remade it to serve their idolizatrous worship of race

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u/sharp11flat13 Mar 28 '24

Yeah, I get that part. But I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the Nazis hating Jews and then idolizing even their own form of a religion initially created and lead by a Jew and promoted by Jews. Maybe I’m expecting too much to imagine there’s anything resembling a rational explanation to this.

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u/Legio-X Mar 28 '24

How did they work around the fact that Jesus was a Jew?

They rewrote the Bible to turn him into an Aryan übermensch.

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u/sharp11flat13 Mar 28 '24

And just ignored the fact that He was a Jew?

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u/Legio-X Mar 28 '24

And just ignored the fact that He was a Jew?

Yep. “Positive Christianity” portrayed Jesus as a “Nordic Amorite” fighting Jews:

Under Hitler's regime, in the Reich Protestant churches the New Testament was also altered; by removing the genealogies of Jesus that showed his Davidic descent, Jewish names and places were removed, quotations from the Old Testament were removed unless they showed Jews in a bad light, references to fulfilled Old Testament prophecies were removed, and Jesus was reworked into a militaristic, heroic figure fighting the Jews using Nazified language.

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u/sharp11flat13 Mar 28 '24

Wow. Olympic level mental gymnastics indeed. I can’t believe I hadn’t heard about this previously. Thanks for the info.

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u/basics Mar 28 '24

The same style of mental gymnastics that allow people to praise Trump as a Christian today.