D. James Kennedy Corrected: Luther’s Deadly LegacyLast week Talibangelist Radical Cleric Dr. D. James Kennedy –
founder of the Theocratic PAC “Reclaiming America For Christ” - produced a stunningly bad program titled “Darwin’s Deadly Legacy” in which he propounded the idea that the theories of Charles Darwin somehow led to Hitler’s Nazi Regime and the Holocaust against the Jews.
Actually, Dr. Kennedy was on the right track,
sort of...
there WAS a Western thinker whose writings did in fact play a significant role in inspiring Hitler and creating the Nazi Holocaust.I am referring of course to the
"Father of the Protestant Reformation”,
Martin Luther. Luther’s treatise "On The Jews and Their Lies" advocated a program very similar to what the Nazi party did in fact implement in the Holocaust. The Nazis even gave Luther a special "birthday tribute" on November 9-10, 1938, in what became known as "Krystalnacht." That is the night the Nazi Stormtroopers began carrying out the work Luther had specified in his book “On the Jews”.
Now while Luther was fulminating about the Jews,
John Calvin, the founder of Dr. Kennedy's brand of Christianity – Presbyterianism - was busy
“Reclaiming Geneva for Christ”;
apparently he was too occupied with burning heretics and administering his little theocracy to be worried about the Jewish question that was consuming Luther. This may explain why Dr. Kennedy missed the correct historical reference for the thinker who inspired the Holocaust and caused his blunder in blaming Charles Darwin rather than Martin Luther.
Lest anyone think I am merely being overly imaginative in attributing the Holocaust to Luther, I will provide some
verbatim quotes from the Great Reformer’s little book. I apologize for the graphic nature of the imagery, but remember, this is the writing of a one of the greatest Christians who ever lived, not some mere atheistic scientist like Charles Darwin. Readers can decide whose ideas are dangerous...
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DIRECT QUOTATIONS FROM MARTIN LUTHER, THE LEADER OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION:"...First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. In Deuteronomy 13:12 Moses writes that any city that is given to idolatry shall be totally destroyed by fire, and nothing of it shall be preserved. If he were alive today, he would be the first to set fire to the synagogues and houses of the Jews. For in Deuteronomy 4:2 and 12:32 he commanded very explicitly that nothing is to be added to or subtracted from his law."
"...I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them the fact that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God."
"...I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb. For they have justly forfeited the right to such an office by holding the poor Jews captive with the saying of Moses (Deuteronomy 17:10) in which he commands them to obey their teachers on penalty of death..."
"...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, tradesmen, or the like...If you great lords and princes will not forbid such usurers the highway legally, some day a troop may gather against them, having learned from this booklet the true nature of the Jews and how one should deal with them and not protect their activities."
"...I recommend putting a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or a spindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses and letting them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow, as was imposed on the children of Adam (Gen. 3 <:19>). For it is not fitting that they should let us accursed ***** toil in the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their time behind the stove, feasting and farting., and on top of all, boasting blasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat. No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants."
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Martin Luther's Little Book - "On the Jews and Their Lies"http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/documents/luther-jews.htm(See Part 11 for Luther's Specific Recommendations which were LITERALLY the Blueprint for the Holocaust)