Anti-Semitism and the Protestants
Just Three Sources
“It was Protestant ministers who jumped on
the Ku Klux Klan bandwagon. Possibly as many as forty thousand fundamentalist
ministers joined the Klan. Many of them became Klan leaders in their
communities. Others preached pro-Klan sermons from their pulpits, turned their
churches over to Klan meetings, spoke at Klan rallies or became national Klan
lecturers (of the 39 national Klan lecturers, 26 were fundamentalist
ministers).”
SOURCE: The Fiery Cross,
by W. C. Wade (Oxford: OUP, 1989), p.171.
“Most of the established church leaders
quickly demonstrated that they were quite prepared to comply with the Nazi
regime in political matters as long as they were accorded some measure of
religious freedom... Churches and churchgoers often looked away when confronted
with Nazi crimes so long as they were not directly threatened.”
SOURCE: Nazi Terror, by Prof. E. A. Johnson (Perseus,
1999), pp.196,250.
“The leaders of the Protestant Church, with
only a few exceptions, endorsed in general the establishment of the Nazi regime
in Germany... The establishment of the Third Reich represented for Protestant
leaders...the triumph of national religious faith. They generally welcomed that
victory with joy.”
SOURCE: On the Road to
the Wolf's Lair, by Prof. T. S. Hamerow, (HUP, 1997), pp.151,158.
"Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is
based on love." - Anton Lavey
(1930-1997)