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| Debbie Registered user Username: Debbie Post Number: 5 Registered: 7-2000 |
I just received the following link from a christian friend of mine and since you are the experts, I thought you could help me with this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp2MMUe5jEQ Thanks! | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 810 Registered: 12-2007 |
Does anyone know if this is true ? | ||
| Debbie Registered user Username: Debbie Post Number: 6 Registered: 7-2000 |
Well I thought I remembered that there was some connection between the SDA church and Nazism. Here is link from TruthorFables.com: http://www.truthorfables.com/Nazi_Germany.htm | ||
| Debbie Registered user Username: Debbie Post Number: 7 Registered: 7-2000 |
Just a piece of the article: '...The Adventists believed that along with their welfare program, their health ideals were leading the way for a new Germany. Adolf Minck, soon to be president of the German Adventist Church, said, “We are not unprepared for the new order. After all, we have helped prepare the way for it, and helped to bring it about.”[40] The problem with supporting the Nazi government in their health program was the government’s belief in the principles of Darwinism. The Adventists denominational stance was against Darwin’s principles. The German Adventists sacrificed this principle for the Nazi government. In order to gain favor with the Nazi government, the Adventists changed what was written in their publications and reformed their health message. The Adventists “frequently print[ed] negative comments about the Jews.”[41] They also tried to show that even though the Adventists teachings about the Sabbath seemed Jewish, they were not Jewish.[42] The Adventists also believed in the sterilization program. Direct statements and the reprinting of non-Adventist articles showed their support for sterilization.[43] The mentally weak, schizophrenics, epileptics, blind, deaf, crippled, alcoholics, drug addicts – all were to be sterilized. ‘This law,’ an article in the Seventh-day Adventist paper Jugend-Leitstern said, was ‘a great advance in the uplifting of our people. [44] The position of the German Adventists changed from “caritas, the caring for the less fortunate and weak, to elimination of the weak, as the work of God. Their strong right arm had led German Adventists to a volkisch position.”[45] The Adventists had built a “well organized, efficient welfare system that seemed particularly well suited to work with state authorities.”[46] This system allowed Hulda Jost to be recognized by the Nazi regime..." |
