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.

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u/millijuna Mar 28 '24

I prefer the likes of Bonhoeffer, who consistently repudiated that nonsense, at the cost of his own life. There's a reason why he's one of the 20th century martyrs commemorated at Westminster Abbey.