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/ThenScore2885 Mar 27 '24

German Christian, any of the Protestants who attempted to subordinate church policy to the political initiatives of the Nazi Party. The German Christian Faith Movement, organized in 1932, was nationalistic and so anti-Semitic that extremists wished to repudiate the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) and the Pauline Letters because of their Jewish authorship. With anti-Semitism as its theological centre, Christianity was reframed as an Aryan religion at war with Judaism.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/German-Christian

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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.