The Pfarrernotbund (English: Emergency Covenant of Pastors) was an organisation founded on 11 September 1933 to unite German evangelical theologians, pastors and church office-holders against the introduction of the Aryan paragraph into the 28 Protestant regional church bodies and the Deutsche Evangelische Kirche (DEK) and against the efforts by Reich-bishop Ludwig Müller and the German Christians (DC) since April 1933 to merge the German evangelical churches into one “Reich’s church”, that would be Nazi in ideology and entirely lacking any Jewish or Christian origins. As a Christian resistance to National Socialism it was the forerunner of the Confessing Church, founded the following year. (Start here and then find more to read)
Tags: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemöller, nazi germany, Pfarrernotbund
For students of history, what Glenn Beck has recently provided is something that has seen before. I wanted to note something which hasn’t been talked about much. Beck said,
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop and tell them, “Excuse me are you down with this whole social justice thing?” If it’s my church, I’m alerting the church authorities: “Excuse me, what’s this social justice thing?” And if they say, “yeah, we’re all in that social justice thing”—I’m in the wrong place.
Continue reading “It Has All Happened Before And Will Happen Again”
Tags: civil religion, glenn beck, nazi germany, social justice
Phyllis Schlafly, is an leader among the Christian conservatives, hosting programs on Christian radio, and is the founder of the Eagle Forum. Janet Porter is founder of Faith 2 Action. Both sit as co-chairs for the How To Take Back America group.
Continue reading “Phyllis Schlafly Endorses Bloody Revolution; John Perry Calls For Armed Coup”
Tags: barack obama, bloodless coup, coup, eagle forum, john l. perry, john perry, Kitty Werthmann, military coup, nazi germany, newsmax, Phyllis Schlafly, politics, rebellion, treason
While reading an unrelated work, I came across the mention of this pre-WW2 document which tried to prevent the Christian Churches in Germany from becoming the tools of Adolf Hitler who spouted Christian rhetoric to suit his purposes. These pro-Nazi churches were noticeably nationalistic in tone, and quickly allied themselves with the ruling authorities, causing no small distress to those which sought the separation of Church and State.
Continue reading “The Theological Declaration of Barmen”
Tags: adolf hitler, church and state, confessing churches, germany, history, karl barth, martin luther, nazi, nazi germany, politics, religion, world war 2
I generally try to avoid politics on this blog, for several reasons (namely because politics can cause divisions on the Body), but Wickle makes a good point: What’s a Nazi, again?.
For those of you who may not remember how awful it was, Wickle has provide pictures. Remember them the next time one side is calling the other side a ‘Nazi.’
Tags: health care debate, nazi, nazi germany, politics, religion
