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EchDel 11 months ago
I listened to the first ten minutes then stopped. Quick question: Do you believe thatthe German Martin Luther worshipped nature or the creator God as defined by Moses and the Gospels?

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EchDel 11 months ago
The question sounds like a setup. Martin Luther wrote some very harsh texts condemning Judaism as a religious practice and cultural identity. What Hitler wrote regarding Judaism and communism reflects ideas much more in line with Luthers late writings than worship of nature or even natural selection. I have never seen anything that even hints at nature worship. This was news to me. Henry Ford was also an industialist and he did not worship nature or evolution theory and came to similar conclusions. Your guest is making a fantastic claim that does not reflect reality. If it has any basis it is at most grasping at straws and blowing small nothings out of proportion. My 10 sats. Will finish listening later.
Thanks for the question. So if you listen to the podcast, or better yet read the book, he explains how Nazi idealogy was really born out of German existentialism and romanticism, which places a great emphasis on nature and “balance.” This shows up in the Germans desire to be connected to the Fatherland, fascination with the Black Forests, fascination with animals. They saw the Jews as disconnected from any land and therefore not living authentically and therefore not worthy of life. The way they distrusted society meant they needed to be done away with as a means to restore order and balance to Nature. The fascination with oak trees is also interesting. There is a god in German mythology that represents the oak. They planted oaks after killing Jews in camps or planted Lupen flowers aka wolf flowers where Jews were buried. Hitler loved wolves. They passed legislation for sustainable development long before it was popular.
Moral of the story, when you place nature above God, nothing is sacred enough to prevent it from being sacrificed to please Nature.
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EchDel 11 months ago
Have you read Mein Kampf? I would highly recommend you read the complete unexpurgated edition. James Murphy translation. Then read Martin Luthers work On the Jews and their Lies. Then read Henry Fords series of publications, The international Jew, the worlds foremost problem. Then read Josepus, Antiquities of the Jews. Then read Maccabees 1 and 2. After you have confronted a world which seems foreign and strange, reread Nehemiah, Ezra, Malachi followed by the entire new Testament. The Bible will jump from the pages in a light you were blind to in the past. Lot's of work many years of research. Few have the balls.