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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-06-09 08:34 AMOriginal message German ‘Confessing Church’ movement marks 75th anniversary (Baptist Standard) By Bob Allen Published: June 05, 2009... "In Nazi Germany, German Christians had to decide whether they were <Nazi> German or genuinely Christian," Gushee said. "These leaders, on the basis of scriptural authority and a careful reading of Christian tradition, made the right choice" ..."American Christians need to decide whether we are Christians or Americans first," Gushee, who writes an Associated Baptist Press column, said. "We need clarity about the discontinuities between these two identities and the dangers of confusing the one with the other" ...After witnessing vicious, state-sanctioned violence against Germany's Jewish community on Nov. 9-10, 1938, Martin says in the film, there were only about two or three of Berlin's pastors preached on it the following Sunday."The fact of the matter is, the Confessing Church was a very small minority," Martin said. Even many within the Confessing-Church movement thought Bonhoeffer, who eventually was executed for taking part in a plot to assassinate Hitler, was too radical ...http://www.baptiststandard.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9642&Itemid=43
They'll end up defending the NAZI's to allow them to continue their comparisons of Christians to Islamic terrorists and the Taliban.
