Nazi Germany's Anti-Christian plans. (Insider Report).Daniel Jonah Goldhagen wrote in the January 21st issue of The New Republic, "[A]ntisemitism's marginalized place in the canonical The standard or authoritative method. The term comes from "canon," which is the law or rules of the church. See canonical name and canonical synthesis. accounts of Western history may be owed to a simple fact: that the main responsibility for producing this all-time leading Western hatred lies with Christianity Christianity, religion founded in Palestine by the followers of Jesus. One of the world's major religions, it predominates in Europe and the Americas, where it has been a powerful historical force and cultural influence, but it also claims adherents in virtually every country of the world.. More specifically, with the Catholic Church." Not true. Not only did the Catholic Church catholic church [Gr.,=universal], the body of Christians, living and dead, considered as an organization. The word catholic was first used c.110 to describe the Church by St. Ignatius of Antioch. In speaking of the time before the Reformation in Western Europe, Catholic is technically used to mean orthodox (i.e., those who accept the tradition as mediated by the Roman Church). Today in English it usually means the Roman Catholic Church. and other Christian denominations oppose Hitler's oppression, but the Nazi Nazi: see National Socialism. regime was anti-Christian. Rutgers University Rutgers University, main campus at New Brunswick, N.J.; land-grant and state supported; coeducational except for Douglass College; chartered 1766 as Queen's College, opened 1771. Campuses and FacilitiesRutgers maintains three campuses. At the New Brunswick campus are Rutgers College, Douglass College (est. law students have been compiling documents showing that the Nazi regime actually intended to abolish Christianity. Known as the Nuremberg Nuremberg (n  r`əmbərg), Ger. Nürnberg (nürn`bĕrk'), city (1994 pop. Project, law students have gathered and edited primary source documents compiled by American prosecutors who submitted them as evidence during the 1946 Nuremberg War Crimes trial. In January, Rutgers University posted the project's first installment on its website. Entitled "The Persecution of the Christian Churches," the installment outlined the Nazi plan to repress and ultimately abolish Christianity in order to establish a national religion devoted to the Reich. The January 13th New York Times reported that although Nazi Germany had initially entered into a cooperative pact with the Catholic Church, "soon after Hitler assumed dictatorial powers, 'relations between the Nazi state and the church became progressively worse.'" Even as early as 1937, "Nazi street mobs, often in the company of the Gestapo Gestapo: see secret police., routinely stormed offices in Protestant and Catholic churches where clergymen were seen as lax in their support of the regime." The law students also documented how the Gestapo attacked and shipped off to concentration camps priests, bishops, and Protestant clergymen who publicly spoke out against the murderous acts of the Nazi regime. This historical compilation showed that ultimately the Nazis planned to "subvert and destroy German Christianity," because doing so was "an integral part of the National Socialist scheme of world conquest." |
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