{"id":44099,"date":"2012-06-05T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44099"},"modified":"2012-06-05T21:39:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T05:39:16","slug":"the-road-to-auschwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44099","title":{"rendered":"The Road To Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist<\/a> and many of the things I was taught from the pulpit lead directly to Auschwitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christians did not create Auschwitz (Nazism was profoundly anti-Christian) but without 1900 years of Christian hatred of Jews and Judaism it could never have happened.<\/p>\n

I grew up with the message that the Jews have suffered over the past 2,000 years because they rejected Christ. Because they crucified God. That Jews are God-killers.<\/p>\n

I was also taught that Jews are not true Jews. Christians are the true Jews. Christianity superceded Judaism. Jews today are therefore imposters, rejected by God.<\/p>\n

The official Seventh-Day Adventist church in Germany assisted the Nazis in their isolation and persecution of Jews<\/a>. Adventist leaders handed over Jewish converts to Adventism to the Nazis to be sent to concentration camps.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, some individual Adventists in Europe rescued Jews.<\/p>\n

If there was another genocidal targeting of Jews today, what would the Adventist church do? I view the Seventh-Day Adventist church as an essentially amoral organization. I think the church today would be as likely to assist in genocide (as parts of it did in Rwanda last decade<\/a>) as to oppose genocide. As for individual Adventists, I suspect that perhaps one percent would be rescuers and perhaps one percent would actively assist in genocide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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