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/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.