The German Christians. Man what a group.
I feel like I'm short on words, though there is an abundance of disappointment streaming through me. We're supposed to (as historians) try to understand. But I don't know if I want to understand. Everything they believed in seems so counter to what Christianity stands for. In a way I understand how b gets to c, but I do not understand how a gets to b. What I mean is, given their ideas on the concept that Germany's faith needed to be strictly German, I can see why this would lead to their idea of dejuduazing Germany and the German Church. But what I don't understand is how the get to the idea of the idea that Christianity can anyway be racially exclusive. Does that make sense?
And the whole idea of decanonizing the Old Testament in order to fit Christianity into their German Church is baffling. Why? It just doesn't make reasonable sense to me, at all. And how can one say that Jesus was not Jewish!? Historically isn't that one of the very few things we know to be fact about Jesus (maybe I'm getting my facts wrong?) There seems to be a lot of conspiracy theory within the German Church regarding Judaism. Jews are trying to take over the world? Weren't the Germans in essence trying to take over the world?
It's all eye opening certainly. The German Church wasn't short of intellect or devotion, what it seems they were short on was humility.
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are we allowed to comment on these? I can't help but, once again, say that questioning authority and having your own mind and not bein into a "gang" mentality is so important. And, it's important to read the word ourselves and not be told what it says, cuz duh Jesus was seriously a Jew!!!!
ReplyDeleteoh, and this post also reminded me of a scripture in the new testament, I'll find it: it says that people are preaching a "different" Jesus and be careful what you hear, etc. Sounds like the German church had a "different" Jesus and not one that actually died for the entre of humanity-not just Germans.
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