Word: saviour
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...half the civilian population resented the officers' attempt on Hitler's life on June 20, 1944. Says Shirer: "National Socialism, notwithstanding the degradation it had brought to Germany and Europe, they still accepted and indeed supported, and in Adolf Hitler they still saw the country's saviour." But General Blumentritt's remark might be interpreted another way: that up to half of the civilian population had so much of Hitler or of war that they did not resent the attempt to assassinate their country's leader in the midst...
World Council membership in the past was based on belief in Jesus Christ as God and Saviour; the Central Committee added the Trinity. Its full text: "The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfil together their common calling, to the glory of the one God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit...
...public attention by the defacing of synagogues, the visitors to Oberammergau will see, under highly emotional circumstances, a play in which the synagogue is a rallying point for evil and in which the Jewish people accept gleefully for themselves and their children bloodguilt for the murder of the Christian Saviour." As one of many savage lines given the Jews, he cites the words of the High Priest Annas at the foot of the cross: "It would delight mine eyes to see his body torn by wild beasts...