Being
a senior citizen that has seriously studied history regularly for over 30 years
now, I have become aware of patterns that may have grave consequences when they
are repeated. When politics, government power authorized to use force and a
politician that proclaims his “Christianity”
combine – bad things happen.
Below
are quotes of a political candidate who was running for a high government office
in a democratic Christian nation. Pay
close attention to his use of Christian terms in his public speeches. Remember
these quotes when you hear candidates today use them similarly.
My feeling as a Christian points me to
my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in
loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these (enemies) for what they were and summoned
men to fight against them and who – God’s truth! – was greatest, not as a
sufferer, but as a fighter.
Today, after two thousand years, with
deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it
was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross.
As a Christian I have no duty to allow
myself to be cheated, but I have a duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it
is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my
own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and
labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness
and misery.”
I believe today that my conduct is in
accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
What we have to fight for… is the
freedom and independence of the . . . land, so that our people may be enabled
to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.
This human world of ours would be
inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. . . The .
. . Government regards the two Christian confessions (Catholic and Protestant) as
factors essential to the soul of the German people. It will respect the
contracts they have made with the various regions. It declares its
determination to leave their rights intact. In the schools, the government will
protect the rightful influence of the Christian bodies. We hold the spiritual
forces of Christianity to be indispensable elements in the moral uplift of most
of the . . . people. We hope to develop friendly relations with the Holy See.
The Government . . . regards
Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation
. . . The rights of the churches will not be diminished.
(This political party) has always
affirmed that it is determined to take the Christian Churches under the
protection of the State. For their part the churches cannot for a second doubt that
they need the protection of the State, and that only through the State can they
be enabled to fulfill their religious mission. Indeed, the churches demand this
protection from the State.
The Church’s interests cannot fail to
coincide with ours alike in our fight against the symptoms of degeneracy in the
world of today, in our fight against the (evil) culture, against an atheistic
movement, against criminality, and in our struggle for the consciousness of a
community in our national life, for the conquest of hatred and disunion between
the classes, for the conquest of civil war and unrest, of strife and discord.
These are not anti-Christian, these are Christian principles.
I believe today that I am acting in the
sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the (enemies), I am fighting for
the Lord’s work.
Who
was this candidate? CLICK HERE to find out.
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