GOD IN A BROWN SHIRT
(Weekly People, April 22. 1933.)
Keeping in mind the sociological dictum that man creates God in his own image instead of vice versa , one is able fully to appreciate the scene, which recently took place in the „Third Reich“ when the „German Cristians“ got together in convention in order to reconstruct the church to meet the requirements of the time.
The „German Cristians“ met in Berlin on April 4. They constitute a Nazi Protestant movement that is determined to bring the church in harmony with the new order. The first meeting ended by giving solemn thanks to the Lord for his gift of Hitler to Germany . On the folloving day 39 million good German Lutherans learned that their church was on the way to becoming part of the Nazi governmant, that it would be reorganized on Nazi line. Its constitution will be rewritten and its parlamentary government will be abolished. The swastika and the cross will be placed side by side, and Protestants marrying members of a foreing race will be excluded from the church
The doctrine will be adopted decreeing that „ if Crist returned to earth He would be a leader, alongside Chancellor Hitler, agains Marxism and internationalism.
Among the many ludicrous resolutions adopted was one calling for the substitution of the living for the ancien language and for the dismissal of the Old Testament and substitution of „ sagas and fairy tales to take the leading personalities from German dspiritual, philosophical and artistic life.“
We quote in part a canon that was adopted at the close of the first session:
„ God has created me a German. Germanism is a gift of God and God wants me to fight for my Germanism.“ „ Service in war is not a violation of Cristian conscience but is obedience to God… In the German view, the church is a community of belivers bound to fight for Cristian Germany. The aim of German Cristians is an evangelical German state church. Adolf Hitler's state call to the church; the church must must heed the call.“
And delegate Hossenfelder declared:
„ The brown Shirt have cleared the way for us and we shall be eternally grateful to them. Luther said a plovman can be more pious at his ploving than a nun at her prayers. We say a storm tooper in his fighting is more in God's will than a church that does not jubilantly join the in the call for the Third Reich“.
How strictly in keeping with the present order of tings it would be if the Nazi clothet their Lord with a brown shirt and swastika and made him proclaim that He and His
„chosen people“ wery at last ready to save the world with teir Kultur.
The People, March –April 2008
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