Why do some so-called "Christians" hate Jews?

[Guest K9Buck]

41 minutes ago, JoeMo said:

Hitler frequently quoted Martin Luther as justification for wiping out the Jews.

Do you recall where you read or heard this?  Thanks.

[JoeMo]

2 hours ago, K9Buck said:

Do you recall where you read or heard this?  Thanks.

The part about Martin Luther Hating Jews comes from a book "When a Jew Rules the World" by Joel Richardson and a treatise by Martin Luther called "On the Jews and Their Lies".  The part about Hitler frequently quoting Martin Luther came from a Prophecy Update by Pastor Brandon Holthaus of Rock Harbor Church in California.  He has a 3-part series on YouTube that explains the history of suprcessionism quite well.

Edited January 26, 2020 by JoeMo

[Guest K9Buck]

1 minute ago, JoeMo said:

The part about Martin Luther Hating Jews comes from a book "When a Jew Rules the World" by Joel Richardson and a treatise by Martin Luther called "On the Jews and Their Lies".  The part about Hitler frequently quoting Martin Luther came from a Prophecy Update by Pastor Brandon Holthaus of Rock Harbor Church in California.  He has a 3-part series on YouTube that explains the history of suprcessionism quite well.

Thanks!  I have that Joel Richardson book on my Audible "wish list".  I'll have to make the purchase and give it a listen.  

I'll check out Pastor Brandon on YouTube.  Thanks again!

[OldCoot]

6 hours ago, K9Buck said:

Do you recall where you read or heard this?  Thanks.

Try taking a look at some of Hitler's speeches and read Mein Kampf and you will have your answer.   Hitler at one rally stated specifically that...

I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work.
- Adolf Hitler, Speech, Reichstag, 1936

From a Treatise done by Daphne Olsen at Rollins College in 2012.....

It is impossible to assume that Luther did not have any influence on Hitler and his views. Hitler refers to Martin Luther as one of the great reformers of history, and as such, one of the “great warriors of this World.”109 It cannot be mere coincidence that Hitler’s anti-Jewish sentiment of the 1930s and 1940s mirrors that of Luther’s anti-Semitism of the 1500s. In fact, the Nazis themselves acknowledged Martin Luther as their spiritual leader. When on trial in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II, one of Hitler’s top officials declared,

"Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants’ dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the prosecution. Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent’s brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them.   -Luther and Hitler: A Linear Connection between Martin Luther and Adolf Hitler’s Anti-Semitism with a Nationalistic Foundation, Daphne M. Olsen, Rollins College, 2012

From the same treatise above....

 

Some people in Hitler’s time went so far as to believe that Hitler was the reincarnation of Luther; the Minister of Education in Nazi Germany wrote:

Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together – they are of the same old stamp.

And yet another example from the the treatise by Olsen....

It was during the Nuremberg Trials that Julius Streicher, one of Hitler’s top officials and the publisher of Der Stürmer, an anti-Semitic newspaper, was quoted as saying that Martin Luther would be on trial as well, if On the Jews and Their Lies had been taken into consideration.

And....

When Luther turned his attention to the Jews, after he completed his translation of the Bible, he left behind "on the Jews and their Lies" for posterity. 

-Walter Buch [cited from Richard Steigmann-Gall's "The Holy Reich"]

 

So long as the Bible was available to us only in a foreign language, so long as it was only spoken to us in Latin, we could only grasp it as things are grasped through the iron gloves of a knight: he is aware of the shape and weight , but can only feel iron. When Luther made the Bible accessible to Germans in the glorious German language, it was as if we had cast off the iron glove and with the flesh and blood of our German hand were finally able to grasp our unique character.... The older and more experienced he became, the less he could understand one particular type of person: this was the Jew. His engagement against the decomposing Jewish spirit is clearly evident not only from his writing against the Jews; his life too was idealistically, philosophically antisemitic. Now we Germans of today have the duty to recognize and acknowledge this.

-Hans Schemm, "Luther und das Deutschtum," Bundesarchiv Berlin-Zehlendorf (19 Nov. 1933: Berlin), [cited from Richard Steigmann-Gall's "The Holy Reich"]

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest K9Buck]

15 minutes ago, OldCoot said:

Try taking a look at some of Hitler's speeches and read Mein Kampf and you will have your answer.   Hitler at

Thanks.  Hitler certainly had a warped view of Christianity. 

[OldCoot]

When one analyses all that Hitler said and did, along with the total Nazi experiment, it was just a dress rehearsal for the future Antichrist who will warp things more than even Hitler thought to do.  The truly bizarre thing is, many in the Nazi regime thought that they were carrying out God's will and just taking Luther's nationalism and antisemitism to the ultimate level.  Along with Luther's rampant Jew hatred, he was a virulent national socialist that disagreed with individual liberty.    It is truly sad that the guy started out really getting things right regarding justification by faith alone, and then went into the sewer of demon inspired hatred in his latter years.

Edited January 26, 2020 by OldCoot

[Guest K9Buck]

7 minutes ago, OldCoot said:

that disagreed with individual liberty

There's actually quite a few in this forum that oppose individual liberty as they believe that government should be used to force non-Christians to adhere to their moral worldview, but that's another thread.