To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (31827 ) 12/13/2012 7:03:07 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Anti-Christian regimes in the past century have had a horrible record:Those interested in what caused Nanking and Auschwitz need look no farther than the elevation of man above God, which was well understood at the time. Pierre van Paassen wrote in his 1939 book, Days of Our Lives , that Germany was farther on the road to dechristianization than even the Soviet Union. Stewart Herman, the pastor of the American Church in Berlin and an implacable foe "In my six years in Germany I never saw an impartial, to say nothing of favorable, article on Christianity." There were two separate books, both The War Against God , describing what was happening in totalitarian regimes at the time (Carmer, 1943 and Dark and Essex, 1938). Imperial Japan was hostile to Christianity, like the Nazis, and Japan was also hostile to Jews . An Italian writer in the 1930s, Vespa, noted at the time: "Japanese infamy reached its heights in the attacks against the Jewish organizations and synagogues." Maurice Hindus noted in 1942: "They [the Japanese] have embarked on a campaign of anti-Semitism which in the virulence of its language is comparable to that of Nazi Germany. All the more extraordinary is this campaign because the Japanese know hardly anything about Jews."Who were the heroes at Nanking? Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary, risked her life so courageously that she is still remembered today. Ernst Rabe, who because he was a German was given special respect by the Japanese, was just as heroic. What motivated him? Rabe, like Vautrin, stated without hesitation that God was his guide. His diary on December 24, 1937 records: "I'll close today's entry with a prayer in my heart: May a gracious God keep all of you from ever again having to face a crisis like this one in which we now find ourselves." On May 9, 1945, when Rabe saw, again, nearly every woman he knew raped by Red Army soldiers, his diary showed no loss of faith: "When need is greatest, God is nearest." http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/remembering_nanking.html#ixzz2EyoLVcVT
