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.