Word: antichristian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy who is challenging Western civilization and threatening out way of life? The enemy is communism, which is a religion and is antiChristian. As a Christian soldier, I declare myself an enemy of communism and all it stands...
...that we are at war with Russia, it must be the prayer and effort of every Christian to help win the war at the moral and spiritual level without letting it reach the shooting stage. It is our duty to realize that Communism is pagan, anti-God, and antiChristian...
...AntiChristian espionage" is widespread, the Cardinal charged, and priests are prevented from reading "certain episcopal documents" by the simple expedient of arrest. Churchgoers are being morally blackmailed by instructions that "less faithful attendance . . . means keeping your job." Party functionaries are quoted as asking Catholics to quit the church or quit the future of Greater Germany. Though Nazi Party meetings go on to small hours, young people are forbidden to attend evening church festivals, because "they last too long and prevent their getting sufficient sleep...
Nazis v. Nazarenes. As exiled Nobel Prizeman Thomas Mann said last week: "There can be no real peace between the cross and the swastika. National socialism is essentially unchristian and antichristian. . . ." Though the conflict between Christianity and Naziism seems inevitable now, it did not seem so when Hitler came into power. Catholics and Protestants alike helped his coup d'état. Martin Niemoller himself supported him. And one of Hitler's first acts as Chancellor was to declare: "In the two Christian creeds lie the most important factors for the preservation of the German people." Only in secret...