Hate Groups’ Danger To
Hating righteous and godly people has been a part of life for many millennia--maybe from the beginning of the human family. While the word “hate” is not used of Cain, is there any doubt he hated his brother? The sacred record says, “Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose against Abel his brother, and slew him” (Gen. 4:8). The very first time the word “hate” appears in the King James Version the Bible is in connection with Jacob and Esau. Jacob and his mother conspired to rob Esau of his inheritance. “And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will slay my brother” (Gen. 27:41). Jacob made a foolish mistake in showing favoritism toward Joseph. He “loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors. And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably with him. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brothers: and they hated him yet the more. And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words” (Gen. 37:3-5, 8).
Several hundred years later, king
Ahab of Israel asked king Jehoshaphat of Judah if he would join with the army
of
In the last twenty-five or thirty
years, hate groups have proliferated at an alarming rate in the
A few days ago I received hate
mail from the state of
If you have any doubt about the
enormous damage these hate groups do, just think about Timothy James McVeigh
and James Nichols. These two men killed
168 innocent men, women and children--19 children whom Timothy McVeigh
described as “collateral damage.” And
McVeigh lied when he said he did not know there were children in the federal
building in
I reserve the right to criticize
governments--ours as well as others--but murdering 168 people from a heart of
hate and anger does nothing to correct the mistake our government has made and
is making. There are avenues we can use
for making our government more responsive to the needs and desires of the
American people. In
The letter writer referred to me
as “Kosher” because he probably believes I endorse what the nation of
There is much in the packet of
material I received I would like to discuss with you, but I shall devote the
rest of our time to one little leaflet that has no name and no title--a fact
hard to understand when the sender calls me a cowardly preacher. Please listen to these unbelievable stupid
observations--observations no knowledgeable person could possibly make. “Since the 1950’s Adolph Hitler has been
portrayed by “our Jewish controlled media as the reincarnation of the
devil. Adolph Hitler and Robert E. Lee
were the most morally pure historical figures in the last two centuries. Hitler’s ‘sin’ was he choked the communistic
Jews (Jews’ religion is communism) loose from control of
The cowardly author of this brief statement describes the American media as being Jewish controlled. Of course, he provides no evidence for his foolish accusation. Are there newspapers, television and radio stations that are controlled by Jews? It would be strange indeed if that were not the case, but to insist that the American media are Jewish controlled cannot be proved. But even if that were the case, would that mean the media would be more biased against Hitler and his cruel regime that media not controlled by the Jews? I have no doubt many media outlets are biased in favor of liberal politics and religion, but that does not mean that the media are Jewish controlled.
Have the media portrayed Adolph
Hitler as the reincarnation of the devil?
I have never heard or read that kind of language. But there is not even the slightest doubt
that the devil was thrilled and exhilarated by every move Hitler made. Except for some of the Communist leaders,
like Stalin, Castro, Poll Pot and Mao Tse Tung, there probably has never been a
more thoroughly evil person on the face of God’s earth than Adolph Hitler. He despised major portions of the human race,
New Testament Christianity and the inspired word of God. How could it have been otherwise when his
chief influence in philosophy had been Friedrich Nietzsche and his favorite
musician
One of the strangest incidents in
my life as a preacher occurred about twenty years ago in
The author of the leaflet I am reviewing calls Adolph Hitler and Robert E. Lee the most morally pure historical figures in the last two centuries.” I have no inclination to discuss General Robert E. Lee except to say: His fighting to keep human beings in abject slavery was evil--completely and inexcusably evil. I hate slavery as much as I hate Nazism. Come to think of it, Nazism was one of the worst systems of slavery ever known to the human family. And how could some of the most brilliant minds in the world buy into Hitler’s philosophy? Medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, military leaders, and other intellectuals swallowed Hitler’s philosophy hook, line and sinker.” They joined in the slaughter of millions and millions of human beings. If any part of hell is hotter than any other part, surely the hottest part will be reserved for Hitler, for his henchmen and for modern people who exalt and promote the worst hatred known to man.
I wonder what standards the
author of the leaflet used for insisting that “Robert E. Lee and Adolph Hitler
were the most morally pure historical figures of the last two centuries?” Could it be that the more innocent people a
ruler kills the more morally pure the hatemongers believe he is? If that is the standard, Hitler qualifies as
morally pure since he was responsible for the killing of some twenty million
people during World War II. He also
shares some of the responsibility for the murder of 168 people in Oklahoma
City. Timothy McVeigh apparently thought
Hitler was a great leader and killed those people--not only in the United
States--but in Europe as well. I am
absolutely baffled that anyone would honor a vicious, cruel and bloodthirsty
killer like Hitler. Was he morally
pure? If Satan has ever had a more
obedient
The leaflet says that Hitler’s “sin” was that he choked the communistic Jews loose from Germany and set them to work. The word “sin” is in quotation marks. Did Hitler hate the communists? He hated them with a passion because they had the potential to do as much evil as he did. But were the Jews of Nazi Germany communists? Some of them probably were, but to call them communists has no basis in fact. Millions of Jews hated communism as much as they hated Nazism. Both systems were anti-Semitic and are today. The number of Jews who were killed under communist regimes will never be known in this world, but the numbers are very disturbing. To call the Jews’ religion “communism” defies good sense.
On the back of the little leaflet are these words “Hitler never killed unborn babies--just commies.” Did the writer mean that Hitler never personally aborted unborn babies? Although we have no way of knowing that, I doubt if he ever assisted a woman in having an abortion. But Germany began to abort babies as early as 1909. One of the reasons many Germans aborted babies was to keep the German nation from being free from mentally and physically handicapped people. The eugenic movement had been in progress long before Hitler came on the scene, but he did nothing to bring a halt to it. In addition, he supported the killing of sick old people and handicapped children. One child with badly modeled ears was put to death.
If the hate groups who think Hitler was some kind of a god would just bother to read the works of reputable scholars, they would not make such grievous errors of judgment. One of the most disturbing books ever written on the bigotry and cruelty of Nazism has title, The German Euthanasia Program (Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing Co., Inc.). Dr. Fredric Wertham, an American psychiatrist, wrote the book. The little book was originally chapters eight and nine of a larger book with the title, A Sign of Cain. According to Dr. Wertham, the express purpose of the German Euthanasia Program was not specifically to kill Jews and other non-Aryans, but “to purify the German race by direct killing off of pure blooded German citizens who were physically, emotionally, or mentally defective” (p.3). Dr. Wertham says the Nazis killed Jews, gypsies, Slavs, prisoners of war and undesirable civilians. They may have confined as many as 7,500,000 to concentration camps. A bare of 500,000 of those people survived. Most reputable scholars believe that between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 Jews in concentration camps and outside were brutally killed--either gassed or shot or starved or killed in some other way (pp. 8-9).
Adolph Hitler sent the following letter to Dr. Brandt, Hitler’s personal physician: You are “responsibly commissioned to extend the authority of physicians, to be designated by name, so that a mercy death may be granted to patients who according to human judgment are incurably ill according to the most critical evaluation of the state of their disease” (p. 38). The Nazis with Adolph Hitler’s permission killed 275,000 German old people. They euthanized their own old people as if they were euthanizing dogs or cats. And that is morally pure?
Dr. David Rausch’s book, A Legacy of Hatred: Why Christians Must Not Forget the Holocaust (Chicago: Moody Press, 1984), points out that German murder squads used children for target practice. They smashed infants’ heads against the wall to hear them pop (p. 4). Dr. Rausch quotes these chilling words from Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf: “This also is only a touchstone for the value of the race, and that race which does not pass the test will die and make room for races healthier or at least tougher and of greater resistance” (p. 6).
If time permitted, I would like to review a number of other books about the Holocaust, such as, Helen Epstein’s book, Children of the Holocaust: Conversations With Sons and Daughters of Survivors (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979), Dr. Robert Jay Lifton’s masterpiece, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York: Basic Books, Inc., Pubishers 1986) and others, but time will not permit it today.
I close with a very simple question: Where were the churches when all of the brutality was going on?
Winford Claiborne
The International Gospel Hour
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