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To: average joe who wrote (7659)	6/17/2010 9:03:52 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Don't tell Brummar... Oh, never mind, I see his head is in the sand over there as you post. :)) DAK

To: average joe who wrote (7659)	6/20/2010 10:45:18 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

And those are the facts. “OF the Nazi leaders considered themselves not merely Christians but instruments of God's will, proclaims Richard Steigmann-Gall, a young Canadian historian. Many people think that if the Nazis had any religion it was derived from Wagner's operas and Teutonic mythology. Not so: the paganists were a minority, much derided by Hitler and Goebbels, who remained nominal Catholics and paid church taxes to the end. The impression that Nazis despised Christianity derives from two factors: our revulsion at what the Nazis did, and statements near the end of the war by Nazi leaders, including Hitler, which seem to indicate bitter antipathy toward the church. These statements, however, reflect less an abandonment of what those Nazi leaders considered their own Christian values than disappointment with the Protestants of Germany, whom they believed had badly let them down. When the Nazis seized power in 1933, the Protestant churches had suffered a decade of steep numerical decline; in that year, however, they began to gain members. For millions of German Protestants the Nazi regime signaled a revival of Christianity after the decadent, morally uncertain years of the Weimar Republic.”