{"id":1478,"date":"2004-12-07T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-lure-of-moral-values\/"},"modified":"2004-12-07T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T00:37:10","slug":"the-lure-of-moral-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-lure-of-moral-values\/","title":{"rendered":"the Lure of &#8220;Moral Values&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a> Maureen Farrell &gt; &#8220;God Is With Us&#8221;: Hitler&#8217;s Rhetoric and the Lure of &#8220;Moral Values&#8221;&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/farrell\/04\/12\/far04041.html&#8221;&gt;BuzzFlash &gt; Maureen Farrell &gt; &#8220;God Is With Us&#8221;: Hitler&#8217;s Rhetoric and the Lure of &#8220;Moral Values&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If photographic evidence of the Third Reich&#8217;s Christian leanings were not enough, Hitler&#8217;s own speeches and writings prove, at the very least, that he presented many of the same faith-based arguments heard in America today. Religion in the schools? Hitler was for it. Intellectuals who practiced &#8220;anti-Christian, smug individualism&#8221;? According to Hitler, their days were numbered. Divine Providence&#8217;s role in shaping Germany&#8217;s ultimate victory? Who could argue? In other words, there is enough historical evidence to color Scalia deluded. Writing for Free Inquiry, John Patrick Michael Murphy explained:<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;Hitler&#8217;s Germany amalgamated state with church. Soldiers of the vermacht wore belt buckles inscribed with the following: &#8220;Gott mit uns&#8221; (God is with us). His troops were often sprinkled with holy water by the priests. It was a real Christian country whose citizens were indoctrinated by both state and church and blindly followed all authority figures, political and ecclesiastical.<\/p>\n<p>    Hitler, like some of the today&#8217;s politicians and preachers, politicized &#8220;family values.&#8221; He liked corporeal punishment in home and school. Jesus prayers became mandatory in all schools under his administration. While abortion was illegal in pre-Hitler Germany, he took it to new depths of enforcement, requiring all doctors to report to the government the circumstances of all miscarriages. He openly despised homosexuality and criminalized it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For anyone wanting even more proof, Mein Kampf is chock full of the Fuhrer&#8217;s musings on God. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When was the last time a Western nation had a leader so obsessed with God and claiming God was on our side? If you answered Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany, you&#8217;re correct,&#8221; Bob Fitrakis wrote.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>EXCERPT:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen Farrell &gt; &#8220;God Is With Us&#8221;: Hitler&#8217;s Rhetoric and the Lure of &#8220;Moral Values&#8221;&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/farrell\/04\/12\/far04041.html&#8221;&gt;BuzzFlash &gt; Maureen Farrell &gt; &#8220;God Is With Us&#8221;: Hitler&#8217;s Rhetoric and the Lure of &#8220;Moral Values&#8221; If photographic evidence of the Third Reich&#8217;s Christian leanings were not enough, Hitler&#8217;s own speeches and writings prove, at the very least, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-lure-of-moral-values\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the Lure of &#8220;Moral Values&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}